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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Two of the front-runners in Sri Lanka’s presidential election were the sons of former presidents. A third contender, the incumbent, was the nephew and political heir of yet...

Tourists strolling along the banks of the River Thames in the heart of London will soon have reason to be grateful for a busy construction site on their path. As it nears its scheduled completion...

In Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, temperatures have exceeded 95 degrees Fahrenheit multiple times this year — a level that, combined with the region’s pervasive humidity, strains the human...

Pontevedra may be a smaller city in northwest Spain, but it has been a pioneer in favoring pedestrians over cars for more than 20 years. The city has played a large role in inspiring other...

PICTOU COUNTY, Nova Scotia — In a quiet patch of forest in Nova Scotia, a company is building a machine designed to help slow global warming by transforming Earth’s rivers and oceans into giant...

LONDON — When Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won a whopping parliamentary majority in Britain’s election in July, it was with only 34% of the vote, leading one commentator to call it...

WASHINGTON — There was Carol Moseley Braun, the Illinois Democrat who in 1992 became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Nearly a quarter-century would pass before Kamala Harris became...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Marxist candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led the early counting in Sri Lanka’s presidential elections Sunday, riding a wave of popular anger at the established political...

The exchange, during a live-streamed forum with Oprah Winfrey and Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, began with the kind of emotional set piece that has become a grim go-to for Democrats...

When the European Union adopted a ban on dental amalgam fillings earlier this year, its aim was to eliminate one of the last remaining intentional uses of mercury in Europe. The regulation is part of...

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million years...

Most people have two options when they want a new car: buy it with a traditional loan or lease it. Either can make sense, depending on your situation. If you’re looking for the lowest overall...

Motel 6, the budget hotel chain that has lined U.S. highways for decades, will be sold to Oyo, an India-based hotel operator, the companies announced Friday. Blackstone, the private equity giant...

Tens of millions of teenagers with Instagram accounts may soon find their public profiles made private.That’s because Instagram plans to default all new and existing accounts set up by people who...

People at NASA headquarters take deep breaths when the words 'First Story' appear in their email. Late this spring, Curt Niebur, the lead scientist for flight programs, received such a message. ...

MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump was playing golf Sunday afternoon in Florida when a Secret Service agent spotted a man with a rifle standing by a chain-link fence on the perimeter of the...

The latest iPhones, look virtually identical to last year’s models. But Apple hopes that what’s underneath — new software that brings what it describes as artificial intelligence to the new...

Running can be remarkably simple and impressively complex. It’s perhaps the most intuitive form of exercise, but taking the first step can be intimidating. The pandemic birthed a running boom...

In the waning days of summer, flu season can still feel a long way off. Yet some pharmacy chains have already started urging consumers to beat the crowds and schedule a flu vaccine. However,...

Thousands of Boeing workers went on strike Friday after overwhelmingly rejecting a contract their union negotiated, a potentially costly disruption to the aerospace giant as it tries to recover from a...