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Telegram, founded in 2013 by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov, has grown into one of the world’s largest online communication tools and is central to everyday life in countries including Russia,...

JACKSON, Wyo. — Speaking in his most closely watched speech of the year, Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, clearly signaled Friday that the central bank was poised to cut interest...

Constance Lancelle, 22, of Milwaukee, was “definitely not interested in voting for Biden,” she said. But with Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential candidate, she said, “I...

Two astronauts who have spent months aboard the International Space Station will have to stay there months longer after NASA decided Saturday they could not return on Boeing’s troubled Starliner...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — When Nepal’s new international airport opened last year in one of the country’s biggest cities, it was the type of landmark project expected to elevate the fortunes of one of...

Right now, every moment of every day, we humans are reconfiguring Earth’s climate bit by bit. Hotter summers and wetter storms. Higher seas and fiercer wildfires. The steady, upward turn of the dial...

Boeing said Tuesday that it had paused test flights of the 777-9, a large plane whose development had already been delayed by years, after discovering problems with a key part.The airplane...

NAVI MUMBAI, India — The Rishiri Galaxy, a Panamian-flagged tanker 1 1/2 times the length of a football field, sat tethered to the dock on a muggy day at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port on the west coast...

JERUSALEM — Hala Khattab’s home in the city of Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip had been full of children — six of them. There was her oldest son, Hussein, 15; her 9-year-old quadruplets, Kinan,...

Cybercrime is on the rise, but even the best antivirus software can’t thwart scammers who target the human psyche. Some of the most damaging and costly scams involve what’s known as “social...

I went through a tough time two years ago, and my hair has since become much more gray. Could it be a result of the stress? It’s natural to assume that stress contributes to gray hair. Just look...

Thailand’s Parliament on Friday chose Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 37, to become the country’s prime minister, elevating a candidate with no governing experience to the leadership of a nation in...

WASHINGTON — Google was found last week to have violated antitrust law by illegally maintaining a monopoly in internet search. Now discussions over how to fix those violations have begun. Justice...

DHAKA, Bangladesh — The two black VIP vehicles, their hoods adorned with Bangladesh’s national flag according to state protocol, idled late one recent evening in a ground-floor parking lot at the...

FORBES, Australia — Across 100,000 acres in the vast agricultural heartland of Australia, an unusual approach is taking root to slow down the wrecking ball of climate change. Farmers are trying to...

A sudden burst of rainfall on July 30 caused a cascade of landslides that buried hundreds of people in the mountainous Kerala region of southern India. That downpour was 10% heavier because of...

The Israeli military was at “peak readiness” Monday as it girded for an expected retaliatory attack from Iran."The US military was moving a guided-missile submarine into the region, and a White...

Just moments after American wrestler Sarah Hildebrandt won a gold medal at the Paris Games, she let the whole world know what she was thinking: “Oh my gosh I just won the FREAKING OLYMPICS haha...

A deadly Israeli strike on a school turned shelter in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday exposed an agonizing dilemma for civilians in Gaza seeking safety after 10 months of war. They could stay...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian investigators Saturday began analyzing the black boxes from a Sao Paulo-bound flight to try to understand why the passenger plane fell from 17,000 feet Friday, in a crash...