A Lebanese journalist wounded in an Israeli airstrike that killed her colleague describes hours of agony as they waited for help.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,...

Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.

We Need Diverse Books has launched the Unbanned Book Network to counteract book bans in schools and libraries.

Mourners have gathered at a church in Kyiv to honor two Ukrainian journalists killed last week by a Russian drone strike.

AP photographer Fatima Shbair tells the stories behind some of her most poignant images from covering the war in her homeland of Gaza.

Portuguese vineyards are harvesting grapes at night to combat rising temperatures. This practice, rooted in tradition, helps preserve the freshness of grapes by avoiding daytime heat.

Despite years of congressional hearings, academic research, whistleblowers and testimony from parents and teenagers about the harms of Instagram, Meta’s wildly popular app has failed to protect children with its “woefully ineffective” safety measures, according to a new report from former employee a

Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others.

Among the victims was Mariam Dagga, a freelancer for the Associated Press. Al Jazeera confirmed that its journalist Mohammed Salam was also killed in the strike. Reuters reported that its contractor c...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims there is no hunger in Gaza, but malnourished children are regularly arriving at Nasser Hospital.

A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.

Aug. 8-14, 2025 This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anita Baca, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.

Aug. 1-7, 2025 This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anita Baca, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.

Israel’s military has targeted an Al Jazeera correspondent with an airstrike, killing him, another of its journalists and at least six other people sheltering outside a Gaza City hospital.

The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...

New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

A photographer covers a story that felt very close to home in the Gaza Strip.

Health workers and aid groups fear hunger that has been building in Gaza for months under Israel's blockade is now reaching a tipping point into accelerating death.

Associated Press (AP) — Every day, ferries of all shapes and sizes glide across the waters of Istanbul, their wakes intertwining to form intricate lattices of churning foam.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — As more Argentines choose not to have children, dogs have become their companions of choice, reshaping Buenos Aires with a growing number of pet hotels, boutiques, cafes...

At least 22 children were killed in Gaza overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday in a punishing series of Israeli airstrikes on homes in northern Gaza.

Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world, ...

In the morning of April 29, 1975, a massive evacuation exercise began in Saigon, which ended almost 24 hours later.

The blackout that engulfed the Iberian Peninsula on Monday was chaotic and stressful for many. But it had a silver lining.

Fort Worth police have returned artwork by photographer Sally Mann after it was seized from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in January.

The woman who accused Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager trafficked by financier Jeffrey Epstein has died.

President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon for loyalist Michele Fiore, who paid for her plastic surgery with funds that were meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer.

The federal government says it is freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and contracts to Harvard University.

Thousands of fans gathered at the sixth annual Comic-Con Prague, a three-day pop culture event with interactive workshops, a gaming zone, lectures and insight into upcoming films.

Relatives say an autistic and nonverbal teenage boy who was shot by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while holding a knife has died.

A teenage boy described by his family as autistic, nonverbal and intellectually disabled remains in critical condition after being shot in his backyard by Idaho police last weekend.

A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

A video on the phone of one of 15 Palestinian medics killed by Israeli forces in Gaza shows that their emergency vehicles had their lights and sirens flashing when they came under a barrage of gunfire...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Deep inside the dumpsters of Buenos Aires, Elías Fernández, 27, sifts through for a living.

U.S. government efforts to eliminate diversity initiatives are not going down well on the European continent.

A lawyer for The Associated Press has asked a federal judge once again to reinstate the agency’s access to the White House press pool and some other official events.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the strikes because of a lack of progress in ongoing talks to extend the Gaza ceasefire.

A photo of a dog in India on a scooter, its forehead daubed with colored powder, is a potent symbol of how many households treat pets as family and include them in festivities, including Holi.

Most Greenlanders are proudly Inuit. And most are Lutheran. About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identity as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today.

A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century as a means to spotlight trans people’s struggle in Brazil, where more of them...

A Romanian official says influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have left for the U.S. after a travel ban imposed on them was lifted.