Riot police vans are lining streets around Algeria’s capital and a helicopter is circling as the country braces for what could be decisive protests against longtime leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is working to pull off an against-the-odds rescue for her European Union divorce deal, after Parliament voted to postpone Brexit to avert a chaotic U.K. departure in two weeks.

Dozens of people were killed in mass shootings at two mosques in New Zealand that were full of worshippers attending Friday prayers. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the attacks in Christchurch were 'an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence.' In addition to the dead, she said more than 20 people were seriously wounded.

Iran says it has banned from its airspace Boeing 737 Max 8 planes alongside other nations.

A coalition of more than a dozen global news organizations, including The Associated Press, The Financial Times and Reuters, will spotlight the world’s most threatened journalists in a new freedom of speech initiative, the group announced Friday in New York.

The president of Barcelona spoke out against the haste to introduce a 24-team Club World Cup in 2021 ahead of the FIFA Council deciding Friday whether to approve the pilot of the enlarged tournament.

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It’s that time of Championship Week when programs on the NCAA Tournament bubble start to worry about bid thieves.

Just about everything at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament on Thursday night was about Zion Williamson.

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