CARACAS (AP) Venezuelan’s enthusiasm for beauty pageants is unparalleled, and Miss Venezuela, the crown jewel of them all, might be the only event able to unite the deeply divided country. Once a year, class, race and politics are put aside as...
NAIROBI (AP) Nowhere in the world has a higher rate of unsafe abortions or unintended pregnancies than sub-Saharan Africa, where women often face scorn for becoming pregnant before marriage. Efforts to legalise and make abortions safer in Africa...
LONDON (AP) New and expanded powers for British police took effect on Sunday, including measures targeting activists who stop traffic and major building works with protests. Authorities have repeatedly condemned environmental protest groups,...
Excessive heat warnings remain in place in many areas across the United States and are expected to last at least through Monday. In Arizona's largest metro area, Phoenix and surrounding communities flirted with a high of 115 degrees Fahrenheit...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's highest court has suspended the release of official election results, granting a temporary injunction to 10 parties that challenged the results of the June 25 vote. The Constitutional Court late Saturday...
LONDON (AP) — New and expanded powers for British police took effect on Sunday, including measures targeting activists who stop traffic and major building works with protests. Authorities have repeatedly condemned environmental protest groups...
NEW DELHI (AP) — A tyre blowout caused a bus to lose control and crash into a road divider and burst into flames, killing 25 people in western India early Saturday, police told local media. Police officer Sunil Kadasne told the Press Trust of...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the number of tweets that users can view each day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorised scraping of potentially valuable data from the social...
NEW YORK (AP): A prominent group that represents LGBT conservatives says a video shared by Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign that slams rival Donald Trump for his past support of gay and transgender people "ventured into homophobic territory"....
Satellite images analysed by The Associated Press on Saturday showed what appeared to be a newly built military-style camp in Belarus, with statements from a Belarusian guerrilla group and officials suggesting it may be used to house fighters from...
NAIROBI (AP): A truck rammed into several other vehicles and market traders in western Kenya killing at least 51 people, police said. The Friday evening accident occurred at a location known for vehicle crashes near the Rift Valley town of Londiani...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A truck rammed into several other vehicles and market traders in western Kenya killing at least 51 people, police said. The Friday evening accident occurred at a location known for vehicle crashes near the Rift Valley...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch King Willem-Alexander apologised Saturday for his country's role in slavery and asked for forgiveness in a historic speech greeted by cheers and whoops at an event to commemorate the anniversary of the abolition of...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): Close to half of Haiti’s people, 2.2 million adults and three million children, need humanitarian aid and thousands of youngsters face “staggering levels” of gender-based violence, the head of the UN children’s agency said...
PARIS (AP): French President Emmanuel Macron urged parents Friday to keep teenagers at home and blamed social media for fuelling rioting that has spread dramatically across France following the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver. In the...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): A father and his two children died after a fire swept through their home on Friday, fire officials have confirmed. They named the victims as Michael Richards and his two children, six-year-old Somaya, and four-year-old Supreme...
GEORGE TOWN (CMC): The opposition has called on Premier Wayne Panton to remove former premier and speaker, McKeeva Bush, from his government after he confirmed in a press statement that he was arrested and formally charged with rape and indecent...
Young rioters clashed with police and looted stores Friday in a fourth day of violence in France triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teen, piling more pressure on President Emmanuel Macron after he appealed to parents to keep children off...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Employers who hire immigrants in the country illegally will face tough punishments and gun owners will have more freedoms when more than 200 new Florida laws take effect Saturday, many of which Governor Ron DeSantis...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was cleared of wrongdoing Friday by a public watchdog over a scandal involving the theft of more than half a million dollars in US currency that had been stashed in a sofa...
HAVANA (AP) — Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-strained relations between Cuba and the United States. Now 29...
SAO PAULO (AP) — A panel of judges voted Friday to render far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ineligible to run for office again after concluding that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country's...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples. The court ruled 6-3 ...
WASHINGTON (AP: As a black student who was raised by a single mother, Makia Green believes she benefited from a programme that gave preference to students of colour from economically disadvantaged backgrounds when she was admitted over a decade ago...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP): Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday arrested a man they accused of helping Russia direct a missile strike that killed at least 11 people, including three teenagers, at a popular pizza restaurant in eastern Ukraine. The Tuesday...
