MIAMI — Hurricane Isaias strengthened into the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season on Thursday and continued to intensify over the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. I...

India’s central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time since February 2023, marking a significant shift toward tighter monetary policy as inflation risks intensify even whil...

STOCKHOLM — Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said, recognising her “bold and inventive oeuvre” and its playful engageme...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency for 25 counties as Hurricane Isaias moves toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, where forecasters expect the storm to strengthen ...

Paramount Skydance has completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a new entertainment company called Skydance and bringing two of Hollywood’s major film studios, streaming operat...

PARIS — French high school students continued nationwide protests and school blockades on Thursday, despite government pledges to address complaints over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms a...

STOCKHOLM — French chemist Henri B. Kagan and Japanese chemist Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries that showed how chemical reactions can favor one mirror-image fo...

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, a high-end Windows computer built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark processor and designed to run demanding artificial-intelligence...

NASHVILLE — A Tennessee judge on Wednesday ordered state officials to preserve all evidence related to the failed execution of death row inmate Christa Pike, who survived two doses of the lethal in...

RIYADH — Yemen’s Houthi movement claimed on Thursday that it had launched a ballistic missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, a day after Saudi authorities said Houthi attack...

MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. federal authorities have arrested an 18-year-old Minnesota man accused of planning an Islamic State-inspired mass shooting at the Mall of America, alleging he intended to kill do...

NEW YORK—U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday as long-term Treasury yields climbed to their highest levels in more than two decades, reviving concerns about inflation and borrowing costs and pulling major...

KYIV — Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine killed dozens of people on Wednesday and Thursday, including at least 33 civilians in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, Ukrainian authorities s...

ATHENS — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Europe on Wednesday to help restore what he described as the strength and confidence of Western civilization, calling for closer alliances alongsi...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida has declared a state of emergency in 25 counties as Hurricane Isaias strengthened over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday and threatened the state's western Panhandle and other pa...

NASHVILLE — A Tennessee judge on Wednesday ordered state officials to preserve all evidence related to the failed execution of death row inmate Christa Pike, including medical equipment, recordings...

Israel marked the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Wednesday with national memorial ceremonies, vigils and renewed demands for accountability, as the country entered the...

At Monarto Safari Park in South Australia, feeding three adult male lions became less about placing meat in an enclosure and more about recreating what happens when a large predator gets a successf...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to discuss a possible pneumonic plague case with Russian President Vladimir Putin has elevated an unresolved health incident in Siberia into a matter of high-leve...

NASA’s release of a new dawn panorama from Mars has renewed attention on a geological target that could help reconstruct major changes in the planet’s ancient climate. The image, captured by the Cu...

At Lycée Lamartine in central Paris on Wednesday, students blocked the entrance, sang the Marseillaise and performed Mexican waves as they pressed demands that have spread far beyond their own clas...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has recognized French chemist Henri Kagan and Japanese chemist Kenso Soai for work that helped explain how chemical reactions can favor one of two mirror-image for...

For the riverine community of Nova Sociedade, deep inside a protected area of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the Arapiuns River is the only route to the outside world. During the historic drought of 2...

China is moving toward treating AI-generated digital humans as identifiable and governable digital assets, with Beijing piloting official credentials for virtual people while industry bodies build ...

France’s decision to suspend police use of stun grenades at high-school protests marks a significant, if limited, shift in the government’s handling of a movement that has grown from complaints abo...

For May Martinez, the journey to Tennessee was supposed to end a wait that had lasted more than three decades. Martinez and her husband, Raul, drove about 11 hours from Florida to Nashville on Sept...

Australia’s decision to cancel the visa of a British national accused of displaying prohibited Nazi symbols marked a significant expansion of the country’s use of immigration powers to address extr...

At Lycee Le Corbusier in Aubervilliers, north of Paris, 17-year-old Maisa had already learned what a teacher shortage could mean before she joined the demonstrations sweeping France. Last year, she...

Izmir Mayor Cemil Tugay’s decision to join President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party gives the government control of the mayoralty of Turkey’s third-largest city for the first time, turning a loca...

As of Oct. 8, 2026, there is no verified evidence in current official Taiwanese releases or reliable international reporting that China has begun what could accurately be described as its largest-e...

When the shelling began around their camp in Yemen’s Taiz province, Rawya Hassan and her family ran. They left barefoot, Reuters reported in September, abandoning animals and belongings as fighting...

Russia’s latest missile and drone barrage across Ukraine has killed at least 25 people and wounded about 100, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, turning an already intensified ae...

Along the northern Gulf Coast, the preparations began before Tropical Storm Isaias arrived: lifeguard towers were removed from beaches, offshore workers were sent home and local officials urged res...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision blocking President Donald Trump’s attempted deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area remains an important constraint on presidential use of the mili...

The United States’ use of Pacific island nations as destinations for migrants deported from U.S. territory has moved from a diplomatic proposal to an operating policy, with Palau emerging as an ear...

Kenya’s confirmation of its first Ebola case linked to the Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak marks a significant test of East Africa’s ability to contain a virus that has already demonstrated h...

Darya Shipilova’s death began with a mystery that quickly became an international health concern. The 28-year-old laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia died on ...

Finland’s seizure of the cargo vessel Fitburg after two undersea telecommunications cables were damaged in the Baltic Sea has developed into a closely watched criminal case, with the trial of two s...

France’s borrowing costs have risen sharply, with the 10-year government bond yield reaching around 4.9% on Oct. 7 and the premium over German debt widening to about 140 basis points, as investors ...

For borrowers, the cost of waiting has become harder to ignore. In Britain, mortgage broker Richard Merrett is watching a five-year fixed-rate mortgage at 1.14% expire early next year, when his mon...

More than 200,000 people have been displaced in Yemen since early September as renewed fighting between Houthi forces and Saudi-backed government troops has rapidly expanded, according to the U.N. ...

Serbia is entering its most consequential electoral contest in years with Aleksandar Vucic no longer president but seeking to remain the country’s dominant political figure, after he resigned on Se...

Inside a mouse carrying human cancer cells, the researchers at the University of California, San Francisco were trying to solve a problem that has shadowed one of the most powerful forms of cancer ...

The death of a laboratory worker at a Russian institute that studies plague has moved from a localized medical investigation to an international public-health and transparency issue, with the Unite...

Kosovo’s parliament elected economist Justina Shiroka Pula as president in the early minutes of Wednesday, narrowly clearing the constitutional threshold and avoiding another snap parliamentary ele...

Christa Pike was supposed to leave a Tennessee prison on Sept. 30 in an ambulance only if the state had succeeded in carrying out her execution. Instead, the ambulance carried her away alive. Six d...

The latest verified developments do not indicate that Thailand and Cambodia have reached a new ceasefire on Oct. 7, 2026. Rather, the two countries remain bound by the ceasefire agreement reached o...

The Houthis claimed on Wednesday that they had launched a new wave of missile and drone attacks against Saudi military facilities and airports, including targets in Riyadh, Jizan and Asir, widening...

August Hanning’s career once placed him at the center of Germany’s most sensitive secrets. On Tuesday, that same history brought police to his home. The 80-year-old former president of Germany’s Fe...

When Kenso Soai learned he had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he was not in a laboratory or at a university ceremony. The 76-year-old Japanese chemist was out shopping near his home in Hiroshima...