GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency. The announcement on Friday marks a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions of…
By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bound to the country of his birth by ailing parents and his devotion to treating Sudan's poor, American doctor Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman kept working as long as he could after fighting…
By Zeke Miller, Colleen Long, Matthew Lee and Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of Americans fleeing two weeks of deadly fighting in Sudan reached the east African nation's port Saturday in the first U.S.-run evacuation, completing…
LONDON (AP) — Len Goodman, an urbane long-serving judge on “Dancing with the Stars” and “Strictly Come Dancing,” has died aged 78. Agent Jackie Gill said Goodman “passed away peacefully,” without giving a cause. A former dancer, Goodman was a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. special operations forces have carried out a precarious evacuation of the American embassy in warring Sudan. Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 22, 2023. The fighting in the capital between…
SYDNEY (AP) — A team of explorers announced it found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in Australia's largest maritime wartime loss…
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have found the source of a mysterious outbreak that killed sea urchins across the Caribbean last year. Researchers reported Wednesday that a tiny parasite is to blame for the die-off. The long-spined sea urchin hides…
By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been released as part of a major Easter exchange with Russia, a top official said Sunday, as Orthodox Ukrainians marked the holiday…
By Steve Douglas - AP Sports Writer The Grand National, one of the world's most famous horse races, was delayed Saturday after animal rights activists scaled fences around the perimeter of Aintree racecourse and got onto the track. A total…
ROME (AP) — Excavations in southern Italy have unearthed terracotta bull heads and a figurine of the Greek god Eros riding a dolphin, shining new light on the religious life and rituals of an ancient city, culture ministry officials said…
