Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has outlined his vision for a democratic Iran on social media.

Elon Musk's AI assistant, Grok, is facing scrutiny from governments worldwide.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez is set to deliver her first state of the union speech.

Scientists have uncovered mummified remains of cheetahs from caves in northern Saudi Arabia.

After a nearly four-year musical hiatus, the K-pop giants BTS are back.

The U.S. is imposing new sanctions on Iranian officials accused of repressing protests against Iran’s theocratic government.

U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela.

Online ads that appeared before the holidays linked to a website featuring a photo of a woman hand-knitting a Christmas sweater.

President Donald Trump is set to meet at the White House with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

Climate change is driving a global boom in desalination as regions turn to the sea for drinking water.

The bodies of 32 Cuban officers killed during a stunning U.S. attack on Venezuela have been repatriated to their homeland.

Rachel Goldberg-Polin, known for her advocacy for hostages abducted by Hamas-led militants, has a memoir coming out this spring.

U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials have met face to face to discuss President Donald Trump’s ambitions to take control of Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cast the announcement that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza would advance to its second phase as largely symbolic.

Germany's economy returned to modest growth last year after two years of decline.

The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting to discuss Iran's deadly protests.

Troops from European countries, including France and Germany, are arriving in Greenland to boost security.

An ailing astronaut is back on Earth.

Russian authorities have ordered a British diplomat to leave the country, accusing the official of spying.

Israel plans to honor the late Charlie Kirk for his efforts against antisemitism.

Taiwan-based TSMC, the world's largest computer chip maker, says it plans to increase its capital spending by nearly 40% this year after it reported a 35% jump in its net profit for the latest quarter.

In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or stunningly direct.

Voting delays have been reported in Uganda’s presidential election.

Elon Musk’s X says its AI chatbot Grok won't be able to edit photos of real people in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal.

A construction crane has collapsed onto an elevated road near Bangkok, a day after another construction accident in northeastern Thailand killed 32 people.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is heading to the White House for a lunch meeting with President Donald Trump.

Wall Street is bouncing back.

Japan and the Philippines have signed a defense pact that will allow the tax-free provision of ammunition, fuel, food and other necessities when their forces stage joint training to boost deterrence against China’s growing aggression in the region and to bolster their preparation for natural disasters.

The nationwide protests challenging Iran’s theocracy appear increasingly smothered, a week after authorities shut the country off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown that activists say has killed at least 2,637 people.

FIFA says it has received over 500 million ticket requests for this year's World Cup.

President Donald Trump says he’s been told “on good authority” that plans for executions in Iran have stopped, even as Tehran has signaled fast trials and executions ahead in its crackdown on protesters.

Greenland biathlete Ukaleq Slettemark is used to the stress of competing on the world stage as she tries to qualify for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

A legal memo that came out days before the U_S_ military operation against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro said such a move would “not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense” and would serve “important national interests."

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez vows to continue releasing prisoners detained under former President Nicolás Maduro.

Syria’s military has announced it will open a “humanitarian corridor” for civilians to evacuate from an area in Aleppo province.

Officials say emergency repair crews are working tirelessly to restore power in the Kyiv region of Ukraine.

The State Department says it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States.

The United States says it’s moving into the next phase of a Gaza ceasefire plan involving disarming Hamas, rebuilding the war-ravaged territory and establishing the group of Palestinian experts that will administer daily affairs.

Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni has been cleared of aggravated fraud charges in the Pandorogate trial.

Jeff Landry has embraced his role as President Donald Trump's special envoy to Greenland, but the Republican governor of Louisiana says he hopes to connect with everyday islanders rather than with Danish diplomats.

Ukraine's new defense minister says wide-scale desertions and draft-dodging are major challenges as Russia's invasion continues.

Peace efforts in Sudan have resumed in Cairo, with Egypt and the United Nations urging warring parties to agree to a nationwide humanitarian truce.

Lawyers for Nexperia and its Chinese owners have faced off in an Amsterdam courtroom over alleged corporate mismanagement.

The U.K.'s home secretary has urged the head of West Midlands Police to resign following a report on the banning of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a match against Aston Villa.

Some personnel at a key U.S. military base in Qatar have been advised to evacuate.

The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025.

Scientists have inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores in an Antarctic vault.

The European Union plans to allocate most of a new loan program to Ukraine's military needs over the next two years.

The Senate is headed toward a vote on a war powers resolution that would put a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to carry out further military attacks on Venezuela.

SpaceX's Starlink has dropped fees to help Iranian demonstrators share protest details globally, activists say.

Spanish prosecutors are studying allegations that Grammy-winning singer Julio Iglesias sexually assaulted two former employees at his residences in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.

A new poll shows most Americans believe President Donald Trump has “gone too far” in using the U.S. military to intervene in other countries.

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve the lower house of Parliament soon for a snap election.

Canada was one of the first Western countries to recognize communist China, establishing ties in 1970 under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

The British government has scaled back plans for mandatory digital ID cards, initially proposed as a way of helping control immigration.

Iran's top judge has hinted that trials and executions are ahead as activists say the death toll from Iran's protests has risen to at least 2,586.

Hong Kong officials want to expand oversight of building maintenance and enhancing fire safety measures.

China has reported its auto exports rose 21% last year from the year before, driven by a surge in electric vehicle shipments.

Iranian officials signaled that fast trials and executions lay ahead for suspects detained in nationwide protests, while the Islamic Republic promised retaliation if the U.S. or Israel intervened in the domestic unrest.

The Ugandan opposition leader known as Bobi Wine has been campaigning for president in a flak jacket and helmet as soldiers filled the streets of the capital, Kampala.

Senate Republicans have voted to dismiss a war powers resolution that would have limited President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela.

Beirut’s Commodore Hotel, once a hub for foreign journalists during Lebanon’s civil war, has closed amid the country’s economic crisis.

A top Danish official says a “fundamental disagreement” over Greenland remains with President Donald Trump after talks in Washington with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

A construction crane has fallen onto a moving passenger train in northeastern Thailand, causing a fiery derailment that killed at least 32 people.

The Japanese and South Korean leaders agreed to deepen cooperation between their countries before they let loose with their own surprise cultural exchange in a surprise jam session drumming to K-pop hits.

Losses for several banks and Big Tech stocks pulled U.S. indexes lower, even though the majority of stocks on Wall Street rose.

Scientists calculate that last year was one of the three hottest on record, along with 2024 and 2023.

The Trump administration says multiple Americans who were detained in Venezuela have been released.

Animals at Rio de Janeiro’s BioParque zoo received popsicles and frozen treats Tuesday as the city faced another day of extreme heat during Brazil’s summer.

President Donald Trump has once again drawn his go-to diplomatic weapon — tariffs — to coerce the Iranian government to end its bloody crackdown on nationwide protests.

The plane used by the U.S. military to strike an alleged drug-smuggling boat off Venezuela last fall was painted to look like a civilian aircraft.

Iranian state media has aired at least 97 confessions from protesters since Dec. 28, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency.

The Trump administration has announced it will end Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants.

Edilson Torres has been buried in his hometown after dying in a Venezuelan prison.

David Webb, a prominent Hong Kong shareholder activist, has died at 60.

President Donald Trump met Tuesday with his national security team to discuss the Iranian government’s violent crackdown on protesters as he looks to get a better understanding of the number of Iranian citizens who have been killed and arrested in more than two weeks of unrest throughout the country.

Organizers of the World Economic Forum say that U.S. President Donald Trump will return to the group's annual meeting of business, political and cultural elites in Davos, Switzerland next week, leading a record-large U.S. delegation for the event.

President Donald Trump promoted his efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing, as he tries to counter fears about a weakening job market and worries that still-rising prices are hurting Americans’ pocketbooks.

President Donald Trump's administration has made good on its pledge to label three Middle Eastern branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, imposing sanctions on them.

The leaders of Denmark and the country’s territory of Greenland on Tuesday offered a united front against President Donald Trump’s calls for the United States to take over the strategic Arctic island.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni and his opponents have held their final rallies before the country's next election.

A Seoul court says an independent counsel has demanded a death sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Judicial officials in Lebanon says that the corruption case of former central bank governor Riad Salameh is being transferred to the country’s highest criminal court.

Malaysian authorities have announced legal action against Elon Musk's social media platform X and its AI unit xAI.

Central bankers from around the world have expressed full support for U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Senegal and Ivory Coast fans who want to support their teams at the World Cup this summer have had their plans upended because of a travel ban imposed by the Trump administration.

Strong winds have caused at least four deaths in Gaza as walls collapsed onto tents in the coastal territory.

The BBC will ask a judge to dismiss U.S. President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the broadcaster.

Russia has launched another major drone and missile attack on Ukraine that targeted the country's power grid in freezing temperatures.

Organizers of Australia’s largest free literary festival have canceled the weeklong event after most writers withdrew over the removal of an Australian Palestinian writer.

Activists say the death toll from Iran's protests has risen to at least 2,571, and Iranian state TV acknowledges there was a high death toll.

Venus Williams has lost 6-4, 6-3 to Tatjana Maria in the first round at the Hobart International, the week ahead of her appearance at the Australian Open.

A Hong Kong court moved closer to sentencing prominent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, who was convicted under a national security law and could face up to life imprisonment.

Activists say the death toll from the protests in Iran has surpassed 2,500 people.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has returned to court to appeal an embezzlement conviction that risks affecting her 2027 presidential ambitions.

Wall Street pulled back from its records following a mixed start to the latest profit reporting season for big U.S. companies.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi have agreed to enhance cooperation in economic security, defense and the search for Korean forced laborers' remains.

President Donald Trump has arrived at a delicate moment as he weighs whether to order a U.S. military response against the Iranian government over its crackdown on protests.

The United States is accusing Russia of a “dangerous and inexplicable escalation” of the nearly four-year war in Ukraine at a time when the Trump administration is trying to advance negotiations toward peace.

Colombia’s National Liberation Army called for a “national accord” to overcome political conflicts, as it faces the prospects of attacks from the governments of Colombia and the United States.