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World News

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Updated 9 hours, 21 minutes ago

US budget airlines are struggling. Will pursuing premium passengers solve their problems?

Spirit Airlines has lost more than $2.2 billion since the start of 2020. Frontier has not reported a full-year pro…

Updated 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Track and field becomes first sport to pay prize money at Olympics. Paris gold medalists get $50,000

The prize money will come out of the share of Olympic revenue that that the IOC distributes to World Athletics.

Updated 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Cruelty for clicks: Cambodia is investigating YouTubers' abuse of monkeys at the Angkor UNESCO site

YouTube, Facebook and other sites remove the videos with graphic content, but scores of other clips of cute monkeys jumping and playing remain, generating thou…

Updated 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Vatican blasts gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as violations of human dignity

The Vatican’s doctrine office issued “Infinite Dignity,” a 20-page declaration that has been in the works for five years.

Updated 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Many cancer drugs remain unproven 5 years after accelerated approval, a study finds

The program was created in 1992 to speed access to HIV drugs. Today, 85% of accelerated approvals go to cancer drugs.

Updated 7 months, 3 weeks ago
ALS drug will be pulled from US market after study showed patients didn't benefit

The drug's failure is a bitter disappointment for patients and advocates, who have pressed the FDA and other federal agencies to fund and approve more experime…

Updated 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Strongest earthquake in 25 years rocks Taiwan, killing 9 people and stranding 70 workers in quarries

In the early hours after the quake, neighbors and rescue workers could be seen on TV lifting residents, including a toddler, through windows and onto the stree…

Updated 7 months, 3 weeks ago
First vessel uses alternate channel to bypass wreckage at the Baltimore bridge collapse site

Shipping costs and commute times will also increase for the working-class, water-oriented communities on either side of the bridge

Updated 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Here's what you need to know about the world's largest democratic election kicking off in India

The 6-week-long general election starts on April 19 and results will be announced on June 4. The voters, who comprise over 10% of the world's population, will …

Updated 7 months, 4 weeks ago
In Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians observe scaled-down Good Friday rituals

A young group of Palestinian Arab scouts led the day’s procession, past the 14 stations along the route, each marking an event that befell Jesus on his final j…

Updated 7 months, 4 weeks ago
Pope, looking strong, washes feet of 12 women at Rome prison from his wheelchair

The Holy Thursday foot-washing ceremony is a hallmark of every Holy Week and recalls the foot-washing Jesus performed on his 12 apostles at their last supper t…

Updated 8 months ago
A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a second from world clocks

It’s a complicated situation that involves, physics, global power politics, climate change, technology and two types of time.

Updated 8 months ago
Bird flu, weather and inflation conspire to keep egg prices near historic highs for Easter

In Europe, egg prices are 10% to 15% lower than last year but still about double what they were in 2021, Mulder said.

Updated 8 months ago
To make water last year-round, Kenyans in dry regions are building sand dams on seasonal rivers

Before the sand dams were built, she and her children would walk many miles to fetch water in springs in the faraway Mbooni Hills. It took them three hours, an…

Updated 8 months ago
Kate, Princess of Wales, says she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy

The news is another shock for the royal family since the announcement last month that King Charles III was being treated for an unspecified type of cancer that…

Updated 8 months ago
One Tech Tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images

A lot of AI deepfake photos, especially of people, have an electronic sheen to them, “an aesthetic sort of smoothing effect” that leaves skin “looking incredib…