Firefighters in Spain are battling one of the country's deadliest wildfires, which has killed at least 12 people.

A tourist boat has capsized in southern Vietnam, killing 15 Indian visitors.

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reports that at least 11 people, including a child, were wounded after Russia launched a missile and drone attack on Kyiv early Saturday.

Erling Haaland has become a social media sensation during the World Cup.

U.S. and Iranian leaders traded further threats on Saturday as the interim deal to end the war buckles under repeated crossfire in the Middle East.

Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is appealing the verdict of a landmark social media addiction lawsuit in Los Angeles.

Suki Waterhouse started working on “Loveland,” her third record, immediately after she released her 2024 sophomore album, “Memoir of A Sparklemuffin.”.

The Nigerian government has announced the rescue of students abducted by militants in Oyo state in May.

King Charles III has hosted Prince Harry and met with his family for the first time in years.

British actor Micheal Ward has been acquitted of rape and other charges in a London court.

Three men who survived a fatal shooting involving federal immigration officers in Houston say no officer was threatened.

A passenger on board a flight from Greece to Germany was partially sucked out of a window when it broke soon after takeoff.

British police have arrested a suspect in the killing of Ann Widdecombe, a former British member of Parliament and reality TV contestant.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to give Ukraine a license to produce Patriot air-defense systems could mark a major breakthrough for Kyiv.

President Donald Trump has chosen not to sign a sweeping housing affordability bill, in protest of Congress not approving a strict voter ID bill that lacks sufficient support to pass.

Western leaders came to Turkey to discuss security in an increasingly perilous world.

Volkswagen has reported weak sales numbers, with a significant drop in China.

The U.S. is demanding that Iran make a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and that ships crossing the vital corridor won’t be attacked anymore.

The European Union is accusing Meta of breaching social media laws by designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive.

China has successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket after a launch, marking a breakthrough for its space program.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that many Jewish Americans feel unsafe in the United States, with a majority saying they feel less safe than they did before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

Three former crew members of a Thai cargo ship struck in the Strait of Hormuz in March have filed a lawsuit against the vessel’s operator.

U.S. stocks ticked higher after Wall Street showed its appetite is still big for winners of the artificial-intelligence boom.

Authorities are investigating a blaze at a shoe factory in southeastern China's Fujian province that killed 28 people, raising renewed concern over worker safety.

A wildfire has devastated a remote community in southern Spain, killing at least 12 people.

Sikh organizations and local activists are organizing community screenings in India’s northern Punjab state of a movie set during its bloody insurgency.

The Bayeux Tapestry has returned to England for the first time in nearly 1,000 years.

A powerful typhoon is heading toward China's east coast.

Ashleigh Hallam teaches English at her local library in Indiana.

Israel has launched a project aimed at clearing part of the seas to give beach space back to the population.

Victims of last month's powerful earthquakes in Venezuela are flooding relief services.

Senior British policing officials say technology and online platforms are increasingly being exploited for threats to the United Kingdom.

African countries have secured $900 million in new financial commitments to expand access to clean cooking.

Mexico plans to request criminal charges over the deaths of 17 Mexicans in ICE custody or during immigration operations under the Trump administration.

Celebrities across the entertainment industry are mourning the death of Bonnie Tyler at age 75.

Migrants deported from the U.S. and detained in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea say authorities have used the facility to quarantine a suspected Ebola patient.

A fire has broken out at a shoe factory in China's Fujian province, killing 28 people.

Christopher Nolan has taken on the epic challenge of adapting “The Odyssey” into a large-scale Hollywood film.

Federal forecasters say an intensifying El Nino is growing so fast it's on the way to becoming very strong, even reaching historic levels this fall.

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken about Turkey as well as U.S. moves in the Persian Gulf.

Santas, Mrs. Clauses, and elves from around the world have gathered in Aalborg, Denmark, for the annual World Santa Claus Congress.

New suspected Ebola cases have been reported in previously unaffected parts of Congo, according to the government.

Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced Welsh pop star known for “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” has died at 75.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Jewish adults in the U.S. don’t feel well represented by political leaders at a troubling moment for many in their community.

Ukrainian drones hit more Russian oil facilities and set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to grant Ukraine a license to manufacture the Patriot air defense systems.

Nominations have opened in a Labour Party election to replace Keir Starmer as Britain's prime minister.

Australia has agreed to sell uranium to India for peaceful purposes.

South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a seven-year prison sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol in the first case to reach the country’s highest court from the several criminal trials related to his brief imposition of martial law in 2024.

More than 800 pounds of peanut butter have been spread across a museum floor in the Netherlands.

Authorities in southern China say 39 people have died in flooding after days of heavy rainfall from a tropical storm.

Stocks rose, and oil prices eased as financial markets calmed a day after President Donald Trump raised doubts about the temporary truce in the war with Iran.

The United States has launched new airstrikes against Iran, and Tehran responded by targeting Gulf countries.

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta said Wednesday it will invest more than 13 billion Canadian dollars ($9.1 billion) to build its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada and its largest outside the United States.

President Donald Trump says he believes the ceasefire with Iran is over.

President Donald Trump has flown partway home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of making the full trip aboard the new Qatari-gifted and retrofitted jet he arrived in.

Justin Bieber will bring his swag to the World Cup’s Super Bowl-style halftime show.

As Marta Kostyuk played her first Wimbledon quarterfinal on Centre Court, her compatriots back home in Ukraine were dealing with another deadly attack by Russia on Kyiv.

The potential unraveling of a fragile truce between Iran and the United States has renewed anxiety over fuel prices.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the message from a summit in Ankara, Turkey, is that “NATO delivers.”.

Thousands of people affected by the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela last month are increasingly facing challenges accessing clean water as well as sanitation and hygiene services.

The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the U.S. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving to a construction job Tuesday morning when he was killed.

France's upcoming election has taken a striking turn after far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s decision to run for the presidency for a fourth time.

Rahm Emanuel, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, warns that Israel is becoming isolated due to its leadership.

Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Britain, has been posthumously granted conditional pardon, according to Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy.

The Kremlin has welcomed as an “important step” the International Olympic Committee’s decision to remove many of its restrictions on Russia, a big step closer to letting it field a full team when Los Angeles hosts the 2028 Games.

Health authorities in Gaza say an Israeli strike killed an organizer of public screenings of World Cup matches in the enclave.

Officials say Russian drone and missile attacks across Ukraine have killed four people, including two in Kyiv, as Moscow kept up its pressure on the capital in the latest phase of the war, now in its fifth year.

A new AP-NORC poll highlights divisions among American Jews regarding Israel.

Healthcare workers at the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreak are walking off their jobs to protest delays in their payments.

Civilian and navy searchers have located wreckage of a cargo plane off Pakistan's coast.

Funeral processions for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been held in Iraq's holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.

The U.S. has carried out another round of strikes on Iran hours after President Donald Trump said that recent Iranian attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz signaled the end of the ceasefire.

China has allocated millions in relief funding for disaster-hit areas after severe storms and a deadly landslide.

Oil prices rose, and stock markets dropped in shaky trading worldwide after President Donald Trump raised doubts about the temporary truce in the war with Iran.

Two top United Nations officials are urging Western nations to engage with Afghanistan to prevent the country from sliding back into instability.

A nearly 10-year battle for gay rights in Trinidad and Tobago could end soon at a final appeals court in England.

A German investigation into an online predator network that thrived on the messaging app Telegram for years has led to the convictions of four alleged members of the group's inner circle.

The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by hitting Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar in crossfire that again threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war.

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced at a NATO summit in Turkey that the U.S. will allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot air defense systems.

The death toll from a landslide in northwestern China rose to 21, state media have reported Wednesday, following the conclusion of rescue operations at the scene.

Authorities have charged the leader of an Indian criminal group in connection with the assassination of a prominent Sikh leader in Canada.

Egypt's national soccer team has made history by reaching the World Cup knockout stages for the first time.

The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday modestly downgraded its outlook for the world economy this year, citing the energy shock caused by the Iran war.

Inside the Grand Palais in Paris, the Chanel salon had been swallowed by a garden gone wrong: giant beanstalks climbing to the ceiling and huge flowers blooming a little too brightly to be safe.

Kazakhstan’s top court has ruled that President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev can seek another seven years in office after a referendum on the constitution reset term limits for the office.

A film about the late disability rights activist Judith Heumann will open the 51st Toronto International Film Festival.

A lawsuit alleges that President Donald Trump's immigration agencies have shared confidential information about Iranian asylum seekers with the Iranian government.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says he’ll quit his Parliament seat and seek reelection in an attempt to clear his name over financial allegations.

Potential Democratic presidential candidate Rahm Emanuel plans to deliver a strong message in Tel Aviv about U_S_-Israeli relations being "at a crossroads."

The woman suspected of trying to kill a Ukrainian business tycoon in a bombing attack in Monaco last week was found dead in Ukraine with gunshot wounds to the head.

The U.S. military has launched a series of strikes against Iranian targets after three merchant ships were struck in the waters off Oman.

A Google executive has told an inquiry that a YouTube video that falsely claims a wounded survivor of an antisemitic massacre in Sydney is a crisis actor blooded with makeup met the platform’s standards and would remain online.

A debate over use of traditional Chinese symbols has cropped up after a court ordered a Chinese tea chain to pay the French luxury brand Louis Vuitton $1.5 million over copyright infringement claims.

A new AP-NORC poll reveals a dramatic erosion of support for Israel, after decades of bipartisan backing.

Explosions have rocked Syria’s capital as France’s president is visiting, and the Interior Ministry says at least 18 people were wounded.

South Korea is enforcing a law that allows steep punitive damages against news outlets and social media influencers for spreading false information as journalist groups warned it could chill public discourse and invite censorship.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she’ll run for the French presidency next year despite being sentenced Tuesday to wear a court-ordered electronic monitor for embezzlement.

In Venezuela, a devastating earthquake on June 24 has left about 17,000 people homeless.

President Donald Trump insists the United States should control Greenland instead of Denmark, renewing tensions in Europe at a NATO summit.

The roller-coaster ride for AI stocks snapped back down and dragged Wall Street lower.