Month: September 2023

LONDON (AP) — Scottish authorities have approved a multimillion pound drug consumption room. It’s the first government-backed place in the…

PARIS (AP) — A French government-nominated watchdog body on sexual equality says an online deluge of violent and degrading pornography is sowing…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press LAGOA SANTA, Brazil (AP) — When Brazilian soccer player Paulinho scored a goal at the Tokyo Olympics, he…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany will increase its police patrols along “smuggling routes” on the border with…

By BEN WALKER Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — Growing up in Maryland in the 1960s, Brooks Robinson was a god. Every kid wanted to wear his…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it plans to expel a U.S. soldier who crossed into the country in…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — The Ryder Cup’s food scene is decidedly local at the Marco Simone club outside…

DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are recalling nearly 3.4 million vehicles and telling owners to park them outside due to the risk of engine…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish artist who was given a pile of cash by a museum in northern Denmark to create…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after being stuck in space for just…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — A 13-year-old girl from China has won a gold medal in stakeboarding at the Asian Games. Cui…

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s city government says Christian Thielemann has been chosen as the new general music director of the city’s…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A prominent Belgian bishop says that the Vatican has been snubbing pleas for years to defrock a…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Only 3 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries shop around during open enrollment, according to a 2022 analysis, and only 1 in 10…

LONDON (AP) — British police say a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death during Wednesday’s morning rush hour in south London. The Metropolitan…

RHENEN, Netherlands (AP) — Giant panda Fan Xing has began a long journey home — to a country she has never visited. The 3-year-old was given a…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has decided to expel a U.S. soldier who crossed into the country…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Europe is missing a lot of its Ryder Cup stalwarts at Marco Simone because of…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Are high gas prices burning a hole in your wallet? Then maybe it’s a good time to consider a hybrid vehicle. Hybrids gain…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine admiral says Filipino forces will dismantle any floating barrier that…

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Deion Sanders’ immediate impact after taking over a Colorado football program that won just one game last year…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barring a last-minute surprise, the leader of Spain’s conservatives will miss on his…

LONDON (AP) — British regulators have approved new oil and gas drilling at a site in the North Sea. The U.K.’s North Sea Transition Authority…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The French troops who are being forced out of Niger were seen as a key line of defense in…

A total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and over 500 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh last week, the…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran is claiming that it has successfully put an imaging satellite into space. The state-run IRNA news agency is quoting the…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a shell of a rocket launcher has apparently accidentally exploded at a home in a remote village in southern…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal prosecutors presented tearful testimony Tuesday from the mother of a sickly toddler…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has banned a far-right, racist group known for its indoctrination of children. Authorities also raided dozens…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares in Asia were mostly higher on Wednesday, shrugging off a sharp decline on Wall Street…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press Investigators are trying to solve a mystery about the origin of last…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senior Qatar Airways executive has told an Australian Senate inquiry that there would be no repeat of an incident at…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press Melted remains of an old car tire. Heavily burned trees. A charred stump…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In a new study, Black Americans expressed broad concerns about how they are depicted in the news…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has accused Taiwan’s ruling party of seeking independence, a day after the self-governing island’s…

ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press Hanoi, VIETNAM (AP) — The urgency for Southeast Asian nations to switch to clean energy to…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Accusations that New Mexico’s Democratic-led Legislature unfairly diluted the vote of…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Attorneys will begin arguments Wednesday over whether the man accused of…