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London - King Charles III attended the Easter church service Sunday at Windsor Castle with Queen Camilla, later greeting well-wishers who had turned out to see his first significant public appearance...

Without sodium, you wouldn’t be able to survive. Nerves would fail to fire; muscles wouldn’t contract. But experts say that most people consume far too much of it, increasing their risk of high...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — For years, Apple dominated the market for high-end smartphones in China. No other company made a device that could compete with the iPhone’s performance — or its position as a...

LONDON — In the past few weeks, as the illness has sidelined two of Britain’s most visible royal figures, Catherine, Princess of Wales, and King Charles III, one member of the family’s...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated his call Saturday for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, using a visit to a border crossing in Egypt to slam the “nonstop...

Spinosaurus was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs, and it ate fish. That is what many paleontologists agree on. But did it just wade into rivers and snatch them out of the water like a...

The Federal Aviation Administration will scrutinize United Airlines’ operations more closely in coming weeks after a spate of recent safety incidents, the airline told employees in a memo Friday. ...

LONDON — Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and has begun chemotherapy, she announced Friday, putting a grim coda on months of rumors about her condition and plunging...

Olive trees are common in northern Lebanon, but in the village of Bshaaleh, a handful look downright ancient. Their branches grow in wildly unpredictable directions, and the trees’ gray, gnarled...

Only 10 countries and territories out of 134 achieved the World Health Organization’s standards for a pervasive form of air pollution last year, according to air quality data compiled by IQAir, a...

A United Airlines flight that took off Friday morning from San Francisco International Airport landed in Oregon missing an external panel, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The panel was...

The long, thin piece of metal looked like a scaffolding pole when Trevor Penny saw it on the banks of an English river in November. That would not have surprised Penny, who, while practicing his...

Nearly 70 children were evacuated from an orphanage in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah and taken to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a charity involved in the effort said Tuesday. The charity,...

The first rocket launched by the Japanese startup Space One exploded seconds after takeoff Wednesday, denting its ambition to become the country’s first private company to put a satellite into...

Decades ago, your vacation most likely began with a visit to a travel agent, who relied on a combination of expertise and connections to find the best deals on plane tickets, hotels, tours and more....

WASHINGTON — A six-week audit by the Federal Aviation Administration of Boeing’s production of the 737 Max jet found dozens of problems throughout the manufacturing process at the plane maker and...

Ramadhan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar, starts Monday in some countries but Tuesday in others. How is that possible? The exact timing depends on when local Islamic authorities around...

About 50 people were treated by emergency medical workers on Monday after a Latam Airlines flight bound for Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, experienced what the airline called “strong...

As a child, Josh Patner became accustomed to stepping over his mom, who used to lie down in the kitchen whenever her mother-in-law would call. “My grandmother would talk her ear off,” recalled...

It is all too easy to trace the skull beneath the boy’s face, the pallid skin stretching tight over every curve of bone and sagging with every hollow. His chin juts with a disturbing sharpness. His...