When four Americans were kidnapped in the border city of Matamoros, authorities rescued the survivors within days, but thousands of Mexicans remain missing in the state long associated with cartel violence.
Chinese President Xi Jinping accused Washington this week of trying to isolate his country and hold back its development.
In Fukushima, Japan, officials are marketing the region's snow resorts and trying to shed the stigma that lingers more than a decade after the 2011 nuclear disaster.
MOSCOW — Viktor Bout, a former Russian arms dealer who was released from prison in the U.S. in a swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner in December, has unveiled an exhibition of his artworks at a Moscow gallery.
Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark in 2020.
The United Nations says that since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the country has become the most repressive in the world for women and girls.
The Brussels appeals court said in its ruling that "the elements of the investigation are not sufficiently reliable."
Catholic women have long complained of a second-class status in an institution that reserves the priesthood for men.
Demonstrations, conferences and artistic events around the world Wednesday marked International Women's Day, an annual observance established to recognize women and to demand equality for half of the planet's population.
Ukraine's military is focused on one task: removing Russian soldiers from the battlefield. But faced with a foe whose ranks are known to be riddled with unwilling fighters, Ukrainian military strategists realized there might be more than one means to that end.
Millions of Indians on Wednesday celebrated the Holi festival, dancing to the beat of drums, smearing each other with green, yellow and red colors and exchanging sweets in homes, parks and streets.
A Mexican official says two U.S. citizens missing since their violent abduction Friday in the northern Mexican border city of Matamoros have been found dead and two others were alive.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is taking his final bow in a departure that marks a shift from the technocrats who have helped steer the world's second-biggest economy in favor of officials with unquestioned loyalty to President Xi Jinping.
Thousands of warm hubs have sprouted across Britain as high energy bills fuel a cost-of-living crisis.
Egypt's antiquities authorities have unveiled a newly discovered, sealed-off chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside of Cairo, that dates back some 4,500 years ago.
Five years ago, scientist He Jiankui shocked the world with claims that he created the first genetically edited babies. Now, after three years in a Chinese prison, he faces obstacles and critics as he tries to reenter science.
Remittances to Nicaraguans sent home last year surged 50%, a massive jump that analysts say is directly related to the thousands of Nicaraguans who emigrated to the U.S. in the past two years.
The path to the 2024 Paris Olympics for Ukrainian athletes is clouded by war, anger and pain. Russian bombardments have wrecked training venues. Air raids disrupt training sessions. Athletes have lost family members and friends.
Don’t tell Ukrainian chef Ievgen Klopotenko that borsch is just food. For him, the beet-and-meat stew is the embodiment of everything Ukraine is fighting for.
Archaeologists found the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding — an innovation that would transform history — in 5,000-year-old human skeletons in central Europe.
