There are times when the Scripps National Spelling Bee transforms into a geography bee.

European and US officials are wrestling over a trade deal.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in South Africa on Tuesday.

Novak Djokovic has returned to Roland-Garros with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Mackie McDonald in the first round.

Japan said it plans to use some of the slightly radioactive soil removed from across Fukushima and stored near the wrecked nuclear plant on flower beds outside Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s office to show it is safe to reuse.

A federal judge is suggesting the Trump administration is “manufacturing” chaos and says he hopes that “reason can get the better of rhetoric” in a scathing order about government efforts to deport a handful of migrants from various countries to South Sudan.

Former Albanian President Ilir Meta has been formally charged with corruption, money laundering, tax evasion and hiding property from authorities.

South Africa has denied accusations that a draft policy watering down Black ownership requirements for tech firms was proposed to benefit the Starlink business of white South African-born billionaire Elon Musk.

Chaos has erupted on the second day of aid operations by a new U.S.-backed group in Gaza.

Dutch intelligence agencies say that a previously unknown Russian hacker group with suspected ties to the Kremlin was responsible for a cyberattack last year on the Dutch police.

Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who gained international recognition for his leading role in the 2005 film Tsotsi,has died.

That Pope Leo XIV is a Chicago White Sox fan and likes to play tennis are already known.

National Public Radio and three local stations filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, arguing that an executive order aimed at cutting federal funding for the organization is illegal.

Liverpool is no stranger to triumph on the sports field, or tragedy off it.

Tesla sales across Europe plunged by half last month even as growth in the electric car market picked up pace.

Stephen Hayes Dacus has been approved to be the new chief executive of the operator of 7-Eleven, the first foreigner to lead the Japanese convenience store chain.

A large majority of European Union countries are demanding that Hungary revise a new law that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities.

A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people and sickened more than 2,500 over the past week.

Calin Georgescu, the controversial populist whose bid for Romania’s presidency last year resulted in the annulment of an election in the European Union and NATO member country, has announced he is stepping away from political life.

France’s lower house of parliament has adopted a bill to allow adults with incurable illness to take lethal medication.

A Ukrainian official says Russian forces have taken over four border villages in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region.

An explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China has killed at least five people and injured 19.

A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali has sentenced a British man to 10 months in jail for drug offenses after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped.

Police say 65 people were injured when a car rammed into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans celebrating their teams Premier League championship and 11 remained hospitalized on Tuesday.

For Novak Djokovic, this is a relatively easy call.

Hong Kong’s first locally born giant pandas have finally been named and introduced as Jia Jia and De De on Tuesday.

More than 200 Ukrainian POWs have died in Russian prisons since Moscow’s full-scale invasion three years ago.

More than 200 Ukrainian POWs have died in Russian prisons since Moscow's full-scale invasion three years ago.

Taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Andrei Kozlov is pouring his experience in captivity onto canvas in an exhibition of paintings.

Samoa’s prime minister says she will seek to dissolve Parliament, prompting an early election, after a budget vote failed.

Wall Street rallied after President Donald Trump delayed a 50% tariff on goods coming from the European Union.

A British man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he drove his minivan into a parade for Liverpool soccer fans celebrating their team’s Premier League championship.

A minivan that crashed into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans celebrating the city team’s Premier League soccer championship is the latest in a series of car-ramming tragedies across the globe.

Representatives from NATO-aligned countries are wrapping up a gathering in Ohio to mark the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Bosnian war 30 years ago.

Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall is rolling out new rules to control beachside activities due to come into force on June 1.

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period from 1550–1070 B.C. They identified the names and titles of their owners through inscriptions found within.

A U.S.-backed group that is slated to take over aid distribution in Gaza says it's started operations despite opposition from the U.N. and the unexpected resignation of its executive director.

A top Kremlin official has scoffed at a report that Russia could be involved in recent arson attacks on the private home of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other property associated with him.

The resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria's northeast is raising fears about a risk of returning to the peak Boko Haram-era insecurity in the region.

The Academy Award-winning German-born filmmaker Marcel Ophuls has died at age 97.

A German court has convicted four former Volkswagen managers of fraud and gave two of them prison sentences for their part in the manipulation of emissions controls.

Sweden-based Volvo Cars is eliminating 3,000 positions as part of a cost-cutting program as the automotive industry faces challenges from trade tensions and economic uncertainty.

British police say an incident in which a minivan hit crowds celebrating Liverpool’s soccer victory is not being treated as terrorism.

The renowned mountain guide who used xenon gas treatment to put clients on top of Mount Everest and return them home within a week defended his technique, saying it is making climbing Mount Everest not just faster and safer, but also better for the environment by cutting down on garbage and waste.

Video images show France's first lady pushing her husband away with both hands on his face just before they disembark from their presidential plane to start a tour of southeast Asia this weekend.

Groups of Israeli Jews chanting “Death to Arabs” have made their way through Muslim neighborhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City.

Romania’s newly elected president Nicusor Dan has been officially sworn in, ushering in a tentative close to the worst political crisis to grip the European Union country in decades after the annulment of the previous election.

A 72-year-old mother has filed a lawsuit against South Korea’s government and its largest adoption agency, alleging systematic failures in her forced separation from her toddler son who was sent to Norway without her consent.

Iran has summoned France’s representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised a prize-winning Iranian film as “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression.”.

A Ukrainian official says that Russia has launched its biggest drone attack against Ukraine overnight.

Indonesian police said on Monday they arrested an Australian man for allegedly smuggling cocaine on the tourist island of Bali, a charge that could carry the death penalty.

Money-losing Japanese automaker Nissan is banking on its latest “e-Power” technology for a turnaround.

A U.S.-backed group says it has opened a new aid system in Gaza and started delivering food to Palestinians on Monday.

An Australian state government will ban the sale of machetes after a violent gang fight in a suburban shopping mall.

President Donald Trump's crackdown on Cuban immigration has riveted a community that strongly backed him twice.

A new aid system in Gaza has opened its first distribution hubs in the territory.

Thousands of young Muslim women in France are sidelined from competitive sport because of rules in several disciplines including basketball that ban uniforms and other clothing carrying a religious or political significance.

King Charles III has arrived in Ottawa on a visit that Canada’s leader says will underscore his nation’s sovereignty.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says Southeast Asian nations will forge a common front to face challenges including economic headwinds from U.S. tariffs and the four-year deadly civil war in Myanmar.

European shares closed higher and U.S. futures surged after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would delay a threatened 50% tariff on goods from the European Union to July 9.

President Donald Trump is indicating that there has been progress with Iran on its nuclear program and hinted that an announcement could come in the “next two days.”.

President Donald Trump is making clear he is losing patience with Vladimir Putin, leveling some of his sharpest criticism at the Russian leader as Moscow pounds Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with drones and missiles for a third straight night.

A dual U.S.-German citizen has been arrested on charges that he traveled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the U.S. Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv.

Christophe Clement, one of the top thoroughbred trainers in the United States over the last 34 years, has died.

A second major power outage has hit southeastern France, this time in the city of Nice, after a suspected arson damaged an electrical facility.

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome.

The U.S. military is backing off its usual talk of good governance and countering underlying causes of African insurgencies.

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S. citizen who is also a foreign head of state.

Poles have traveled from across the country to join dueling patriotic marches in Warsaw.

The Israeli military says it intercepted a missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

Health officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours have killed at least 38 people, including children.

Rafael Nadal is being celebrated during a ceremony in the main stadium of the French Open on Day 1 of the tournament.

Russia and Ukraine have swapped hundreds more prisoners of war, the third and last part of a major swap and a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire.

Venezuelans still reeling from the outcome of last year’s presidential election did not respond to government calls to get out and vote for lawmakers, governors and other officials.

As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the U.S. lost their jobs or grants.

Officials say a cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping, assaulting and holding a man against his will for several weeks in an upscale Manhattan town house.

North Korea says authorities have detained four officials over the recent failed launch of a naval destroyer.

The American University of Baghdad has celebrated the graduation of its first cohort of students at a campus that was once a palace built by Saddam Hussein.

A mourning ceremony has been held in Reims in eastern France to honor Sebastião Salgado, the celebrated Brazilian photographer and environmentalist who died Friday at 81.

Gaza's Health Ministry says the bodies of 79 people killed by Israel strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours.

Israel appears to be changing tack as pressure mounts to get more aid into Gaza, and may let aid groups operating in the battered enclave take charge of non-food assistance.

Haitians with HIV are defying stigma as they publicly denounce USAID cuts implemented by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump that has led to a dwindling of life-saving medication.

French authorities believe arson may have played a role in a major power outage that threatened to jeopardize the Cannes Film Festival’s closing celebrations.

Pope Leo XIV's record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed scrutiny since his election May 8.

Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller “It Was Just an Accident” has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds more prisoners as part of a major swap that amounted to a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire.

President Donald Trump says U.S. Steel will keep its headquarters in Pittsburgh as part of what he called a “partnership” between the American steelmaker and Japan-based Nippon Steel, which sought to buy it.

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

South Africa's top law enforcement official says U.S. President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that a video he showed in the Oval Office was of burial sites for more than 1,000 white farmers and he “twisted” the facts while pushing a false narrative about mass killings of white people in his country.

For students around the world, an acceptance letter to Harvard University has represented the pinnacle of achievement.

Jannik Sinner knows he will be facing a new set of challenges at the French Open.

The Cannes Film Festival has played host to the directorial debuts of three stars.

Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was awarded Spain’s 2025 Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts.

Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, has died at age 81.

Lashing out at Apple’s plans to make most of its U.S. iPhones in India, President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to slap a 25% tariff on the popular device unless the tech giant starts building the product in its home country — a move that still seems unlikely to happen any time soon, if ever.

The Trump administration has been releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to nongovernmental shelters along the U.S. border with Mexico after telling those organizations that providing migrants with temporary housing and other aid may violate a law used to prosecute smugglers.

It’s called the Palm Dog contest, but the winner of the annual Cannes Film Festival tradition was a Panda.

A monk has been hospitalized after an altercation at a monastic community in Greece, linked to a longstanding religious dispute.

Human rights organizations, politicians and experts have sharply criticized a law approved by El Salvador’s Congress this week that seeks to limit foreign influence and corruption.

Venezuelans are again finding themselves as pawns in their country’s political game.