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World News

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Updated 2 hours, 46 minutes ago

Indonesia has several big eruptions and thousands are told to leave

Officials worry that part of the volcano could collapse into the sea and cause a tsunami as in a 1871 eruption the…

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days 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 3 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks, 2 days 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 3 weeks, 2 days 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 3 weeks, 6 days 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 4 weeks 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…

Updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago
'Dangerous and abusive'

AP documents grueling conditions in Indian shrimp industry

Updated 1 month ago
A newspaper says video of Prince William and Kate should halt royal rumor mill. That's a tall order

The video clip published by The Sun late Monday appears to show William and Kate smiling as they walked together, carrying shopping bags. It said the footage w…

Updated 1 month ago
Putin extends rule in preordained Russian election after harshest crackdown since Soviet era

The election was “neither free nor fair in any sort of way,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in L…

Updated 1 month ago
McDonald's apologizes for global system outage that shut down some stores for hours

The company said the outage also wasn't related to its shift to Google Cloud as a technology provider

Updated 1 month ago
What's Pi Day all about? Math, science, pies and more

Pi can calculate the circumference of a circle by measuring the diameter — the distance straight across the circle's middle — and multiplying that by the 3.14-…

Updated 1 month ago
Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened

He also noted that he doesn’t think that the world is heading for a nuclear war, describing U.S. President Joe Biden as a veteran politician who fully understa…

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Kate's 'photogate' scandal shows that relations between royals and the press rarely run smoothly

The palace issued the image of Kate and her children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — on Sunday to mark Mother’s Day in Britain

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Kyoto's picturesque geisha district fights back against over-tourism with keep-out signs

In a city known for gorgeous temples and gardens, Gion is one of its most scenic and historical spots