LONDON (AP) — Stock markets around the world took a battering Tuesday, following a dramatic sell-off on Wall Street that triggered concerns that a potentially healthy pullback from record highs could turn into a protracted bear market….

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House intelligence committee's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election spun further into charges and counter-charges among angry U.S. lawmakers and President Donald Trump as the panel voted to release a second classified memo about whether the FBI and Justice Department conspired against him….

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local):…

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence's six-day swing through Asia, anchored by a stop at the Winter Olympics in South Korea, is set to focus less on sports than the host country's bellicose neighbor to the North….

MARIB, Yemen (AP) — At a wind-swept camp for those displaced by Yemen's war, a young Yemeni woman named Leemi, who supports her child and eight others, gratefully accepted aid from Saudi Arabia….

HONOLULU (AP) — When an erroneous alert was sent out last month telling people in Hawaii that there was an incoming ballistic missile, Jeffrey Wong was an island away from the state's emergency management agency office where he works as an operations officer….

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a place for arms control in the Trump administration's new nuclear strategy. It's a very small place….

HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — A group of young Afghan women in the deeply conservative western Herat province is breaking traditional barriers as their war-torn country's first female coders in an overwhelmingly male-dominated tech field….

MALE, Maldives (AP) — The main political rival to the president of the Maldives called on India on Tuesday to send an envoy – backed by its military – to free imprisoned Supreme Court justices and opposition leaders, as political turmoil battered the Indian Ocean nation….

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Oscar nominees luncheon brings together A-listers and rising stars – artists from every aspect of filmmaking – for an afternoon of celebration and mutual fandom….