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U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian colleague Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventio...

Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will hold talks this week on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Laos, a top official said Tuesda...

Shares soared Tuesday in Shanghai as Chinese markets reopened after a weeklong holiday but then gave up a chunk of their initial gains as th...

A self-described Nazi on Tuesday became the first person convicted in the Australian state of Victoria of performing an outlawed Nazi salute...

Emmanuel Clase's nearly perfect season is now flawed.Cleveland's All-Star closer, who spent the past six months dominating like no other pi...

Hurricanes are humanity’s reminder of the uncontrollable, chaotic power of Earth’s weather.Milton’s powerful push toward Florida just days...

Ireland earned a consolation win over South Africa by 69 runs in their third and last one-day international on Monday.A depleted South Afri...

At least 10 people died and an unknown number are missing after a mine collapsed in central Zambia, police said Monday.Authorities said res...

A Russian court on Monday sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. citizen to six years and 10 months in prison after convicting him in a closed-door tr...

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental pri...

Asian shares advanced Monday after a surprisingly strong U.S. jobs report raised optimism about the economy, sparking a rally on Wall Street...

The Supreme Court is taking the bench again on Monday, ready to hear cases on ghost guns, a death sentence and transgender rights.The docke...

The mayor of the capital of Mexico's violence-plagued state of Guerrero was killed on Sunday less than a week after he took office, the stat...

Nick Castellanos smacked a two-out single in the ninth inning to give the Philadelphia Phillies a thrilling and series-leveling 7-6 walkoff...

A massive blast outside Karachi Airport in Pakistan on Sunday injured at least eight people and destroyed several vehicles, officials said....

At least 26 people were killed and 93 others wounded when Israeli airstrikes hit a mosque and a school sheltering displaced people in the Ga...

Christopher Ciccone, a multihyphenate artist, dancer, designer and younger brother of Madonna, has died. He was 63.Ciccone died Friday in M...

MotoGP fans cheers during the awards ceremony for MotoGP at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Motegi, Tochigi Prefecture, on Sunday. Italian r...

Kodai Senga slapped the dugout railing in a raw display of emotion, a most unexpected Game 1 starter pumping his fist during an eighth-innin...

French authorities said four migrants, including a 2-year-old child, died Saturday in two separate incidents as they attempted to cross the...

Cleveland's Lane Thomas crushed a three-run home run as part of a historic five-run first inning and the Guardians powered to a 7-0 victory...

Police in Tokyo are looking for a man who left an explosive device that went off in a park on Friday.According to police, at around 5:15 p....

Gang members brandishing automatic rifles stormed through a town in Haiti's main breadbasket region, killing at least 70 and forcing over 6,...

South Africa shared the Twenty20 series with Ireland. It will not share the one-day international honors.South Africa won the ODI series wi...

The U.S. military said it carried out 15 strikes on Friday against targets linked to Iran-aligned Houthi fighters in Yemen, where residents...