Italian bank UniCredit will pay $1.3 billion (1.5 billion euros) to settle charges by the U.S. government that it violated sanctions against Iran and other countries.
Authorities say a South Carolina middle schooler who passed out in class last week had a backpack filled with nine empty mini bottles of Fireball Cinnamon Whisky.
Police say they have arrested more than 100 people after climate change protesters blocked major bridges and intersections in central London, bringing traffic to a standstill.
A German government plane with no passengers on board was blocking the runway after a rough landing at one of Berlin’s airports on Tuesday, forcing authorities to divert other aircraft during the busy Easter travel season.
Kabul has announced a list of 250 people — including around 50 women — who are headed for Qatar for talks with the Taliban later this week, a gathering known as intra-Afghan dialogue.
Monuments are the emotional backbone of France. That accounts for the despair over a blaze that killed no one, yet seared the collective soul. It is the power Notre Dame had, and still has, despite the charred scars on its Gothic walls.
Russia’s lower chamber of parliament has adopted a bill that would expand government control over the internet, raising fears of widespread censorship.
Danish police say 23 people have been detained for violence after a far-right provocateur tossed a copy of the Quran in the air in an immigrant neighborhood in Copenhagen.
Organizers behind Sudanese anti-government protests say the military has attempted to break up their sit-in but backed off. There were no clashes and no one was hurt.
The corruption trial of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has entered a second day, with a central bank investigator taking the stand in the case involving the transfer of suspicious money into Najib’s bank accounts.
The abortion debate is intensifying in North Carolina over a Republican measure supporters say will ensure doctors care properly for live babies delivered in unsuccessful abortions.
Sweden’s Film Institute says Bibi Andersson, the Swedish actress who starred in classic films by her compatriot, the filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, has died. She was 83.
A court in Moscow has commissioned a new expert study in the case of an acclaimed theater and film director accused of embezzlement, and adjourned the hearings for two months.
A nationwide strike of Poland’s teachers has entered its second week with the government saying it has no more funds to meet their pay demands after offering generous bonuses to various other groups.
Babies wail as a nurse tries to reassure mothers who have come to vaccinate their children. They fear a measles epidemic that has killed more than 1,200 people in this island nation where many are desperately poor.
An Iranian woman who removed her obligatory Islamic headscarf in a public protest has been sentenced to one year in prison but pardoned by the supreme leader, her lawyer said Sunday.
Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes won Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix, beating teammate and pole sitter Valtteri Bottas with a quicker start from his No. 2 spot on the grid. It was his sixth victory in the Shanghai race.
Australian police on Sunday charged a man extradited from the United States with murder in the death of a Thai national, whose body was found bound and gagged on the side of a Sydney road.
Organizers of the protests in Sudan that forced long-ruling President Omar al-Bashir from office are calling on the military to 'immediately and unconditionally' hand power to a transitional civilian government that would rule for four years.
In a striking speech delivered from deep below the ocean’s surface, the Seychelles president on Sunday made a global plea for stronger protection of the 'beating blue heart of our planet.'
A U.S. serviceman has fatally stabbed a Japanese woman and then killed himself in Okinawa, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, amid growing resentment about the presence of American troops in Japan’s southwestern region.
Seated in a stifling hallway in South Sudan’s main hospital, the midwife recounted the day she watched a young mother bleed to death after giving birth.
Sudanese activists say 16 people, including a soldier, have been killed since the military forced President Omar al-Bashir from power on Thursday following months of protests.
Finns will be voting Sunday to fill the country’s 200-seat Eduskunta parliament after a campaign that saw debates over the country’s generous welfare model, its rapidly aging population and how far to go to fight climate change.
Here’s your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Erik Kratz wasn’t tired after catching 18 innings. The 38-year-old San Francisco Giants backup had done it once before in his career, in 2016 with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
More than 70 British legislators have urged the government to make sure WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces Swedish justice if prosecutors there reopen a rape allegation against him.
Valtteri Bottas claimed the pole for Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix with Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton taking the second spot on the grid after Saturday’s qualifying.
Police are deployed around Algeria’s capital to deter protesters arriving for an eighth straight Friday of demonstrations against the country’s leadership.
The submersible dropped from the ocean’s surface faster than I had expected. With a loud 'psssssss' the air escaped from the ballast tanks and the small craft suddenly tilted forward.
Shelter dogs hoping to find families had been allowed to visit a Tennessee courthouse, but the pooches aren’t allowed in anymore due to allergy worries.
Spoiler alert: Computer science students at the Technical University of Munich have developed an application that scours the internet for data on the popular Game of Thrones series, and uses an algorithm to predict which characters are most likely to survive to the end of its final season.
An Austrian music festival is apologizing to British grime artist Stormzy, who pulled out of an appearance after accusing security staff of racial profiling.
German authorities have indicted a Sri Lankan man suspected of involvement in killing 15 captured government soldiers while fighting for the Tamil Tigers rebel group.
The military overthrow of Sudan’s longtime president quickly has raised concerns about whether the upheaval will destabilize neighboring South Sudan’s fragile efforts at peace after five years of civil war.
This year, children will have a hard time finding Uncle Milton’s glow-in-the-dark ant farm, or the gel and ant village version. Basic Fun, the parent company behind the brand, has stopped producing them and now makes just three versions — basic, giant and retro.
More families of victims of the Lion Air crash in Indonesia are suing Boeing Co. after its chief executive apologized last week and said a software update for the MAX 8 jet would prevent further disasters.
More information is being released about music icon Bob Dylan’s project in downtown Nashville in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of his 'Nashville Skyline' album.
Illness is forcing Fleetwood Mac to cancel a number of appearances, including at the Jazz Fest, where the band had been scheduled as a last-minute replacement for the Rolling Stones.
A popular Arab rapper has released a new song encouraging fellow Arab citizens of Israel to push back against calls to boycott the Israeli parliamentary elections on Tuesday.
Jarrett Culver knew Texas Tech desperately needed him to make a big leap after a solid freshman year so he charged full-speed into an offseason determined to refine and expand every element of his game.
Nepal’s president, top officials and diplomats gathered recently at army grounds in central Kathmandu for an annual horse festival that marks the slaying of the Hindu Gurumapa demon.
The Vegas Golden Knights struggled when they opened the season and wound up in last place in the Western Conference at one point, a humbling stumble for a team that was just a few months removed from a charmed run to the Stanley Cup Final in its first year of existence.
Dansby Swanson hit a game-ending single against a five-man infield and the Atlanta Braves, helped by a catcher’s interference call, beat the Miami Marlins 4-3 on Sunday.
Mike Clevinger struck out 10 and allowed one hit over five scoreless innings, then left with upper back tightness as the Cleveland Indians beat the struggling Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 Sunday to complete a four-game sweep.
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is one of three historically black churches in St. Landry Parish, La., that have been recently burned. The state?s fire marshal said the authorities are continuing to investigate how the fires might be related.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States would designate Iran?s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization. This is the first time that the United States has labeled a part of another nation?s government a foreign terrorist group.
Bret ?The Hitman? Hart was attacked by a fan at his WWE induction ceremony on Saturday night. The fan has previously been arrested three times on charges of stalking and violating protective orders.
Responding to complaints by several women about unwanted physical contact, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said: ?I?m sorry I didn?t understand more. I?m not sorry for any of my intentions.?
Dennis A. Muilenburg, Boeing?s chief executive, said on Thursday that Boeing?s software did play a role in the crashes of both Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610.
President Trump said he may give Mexico a ?one-year warning,? after threatening to close the border this week if it didn?t stop illegal immigration. On Thursday, the president altered his message, citing the flow of drugs over the border as his red line.
A person in Kentucky told the police that he was Timmothy Pitzen, a boy who vanished in 2011 after his mother?s apparent suicide. But federal investigators disputed the claim, saying DNA tests showed that he was not the missing child.
Investigators said on Thursday that the crew on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing Max jet that crashed last month followed all procedures and recommended that the manufacturer should review the plane?s control system.
Responding to complaints by several women about unwanted physical contact, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said: ?I?m sorry I didn?t understand more. I?m not sorry for any of my intentions.?
Dennis A. Muilenburg, Boeing?s chief executive, said on Thursday that Boeing?s software did play a role in the crashes of both Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610.
President Trump said he may give Mexico a ?one-year warning,? after threatening to close the border this week if it didn?t stop illegal immigration. On Thursday, the president altered his message, citing the flow of drugs over the border as his red line.
A person in Kentucky told the police that he was Timmothy Pitzen, a boy who vanished in 2011 after his mother?s apparent suicide. But federal investigators disputed the claim, saying DNA tests showed that he was not the missing child.
Investigators said on Thursday that the crew on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing Max jet that crashed last month followed all procedures and recommended that the manufacturer should review the plane?s control system.
Doctors can safely transplant hepatitis C-infected lungs and hearts into people desperate for a new organ, say researchers who may have found a way to protect those patients from getting the risky virus.
Tom Smith hesitated to buy light bulbs guaranteed for up to 10 years, thinking they’d outlast him. Terry Langbaum debated filling a prescription for a $13,000-a-month drug that keeps cancer from worsening for three months on average and carries six pages of warnings.
Prosecutors are dropping a murder charge against a former deputy who had been accused along with her husband in the strangulation death of a man they confronted outside a Houston-area restaurant.
Four women were arrested and charged with running a prostitution network in California, Nevada and Utah that generated tens of thousands of dollars a month, authorities said Wednesday.
Responding to complaints by several women about unwanted physical contact, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said: ?I?m sorry I didn?t understand more. I?m not sorry for any of my intentions.?
Dennis A. Muilenburg, Boeing?s chief executive, said on Thursday that Boeing?s software did play a role in the crashes of both Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610.
President Trump said he may give Mexico a ?one-year warning,? after threatening to close the border this week if it didn?t stop illegal immigration. On Thursday, the president altered his message, citing the flow of drugs over the border as his red line.
A person in Kentucky told the police that he was Timmothy Pitzen, a boy who vanished in 2011 after his mother?s apparent suicide. But federal investigators disputed the claim, saying DNA tests showed that he was not the missing child.
Investigators said on Thursday that the crew on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing Max jet that crashed last month followed all procedures and recommended that the manufacturer should review the plane?s control system.
Doctors can safely transplant hepatitis C-infected lungs and hearts into people desperate for a new organ, say researchers who may have found a way to protect those patients from getting the risky virus.
Tom Smith hesitated to buy light bulbs guaranteed for up to 10 years, thinking they’d outlast him. Terry Langbaum debated filling a prescription for a $13,000-a-month drug that keeps cancer from worsening for three months on average and carries six pages of warnings.
Prosecutors are dropping a murder charge against a former deputy who had been accused along with her husband in the strangulation death of a man they confronted outside a Houston-area restaurant.
Four women were arrested and charged with running a prostitution network in California, Nevada and Utah that generated tens of thousands of dollars a month, authorities said Wednesday.
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