KOLKATA, India — As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in the eastern Indian city where ...
ZARQA, Jordan — Intissar Ghozlan’s two youngest boys haven’t been in school since the family fled from Syria to Jordan two years ago. There’s no space in local classroom...
Disease's spread has been avoided
HAVANA — Six months after President Raul Castro declared war on the Zika virus in Cuba, a militarized nationwide campaign of intensive m...
BUNOL, Spain — Thousands of people have pelted each other with tons of ripe tomatoes, creating a red, mushy mess in the annual “Tomatina” street battle in eastern Spain....
BERLIN — Scientists have found that dogs use the same brain areas as humans to process language.
A study published in the journal Science showed that dogs process words ...
Texas grad student freed from Iran jail
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have released a man jailed while home from his graduate studies in Texas after nearly five...
New Zealand case's massive scale rare
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — How do you steal 500 cows?
Probably not all at once. That’s according to New Zealand police, who said tod...
Prisoners set free that day
WASHINGTON — A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent U.S. history, accord...
Art experts rate damage
ROME — Within hours of last week’s devastating earthquake in central Italy, members of the national police squad of art experts were already explo...
Earthquake's death toll rises to 267
AMATRICE, Italy — Strong aftershocks rattled central Italy and shut down a key route into the hard-hit town of Amatrice today as hope...
