The cost of a Mega Millions ticket is more than doubling, but the multi-state lottery game is promising that the bigger price comes with better odds. Beginning in April 2025, a ticket will increase in ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its most drought-stricken regions with more water than many had seen in ...

Social media users across the European Union will soon have a new forum to challenge decisions by platforms to remove posts and videos for breaking their rules or leave up others that may violate them ...

Saudi Arabia has put to death a Filipino citizen convicted of murder despite years of efforts by the Philippines to prevent the execution, including a presidential appeal. Philippine President ...

The Nobel Prize in physics is being awarded, a day after two American scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of microRNA. Three scientists won last year’s Nobel Prize in physics for ...

France’s minority government is expected to survive a no-confidence vote on Tuesday in a test for conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier, forced to rely on the far right’s good will to be able to ...

Former President Donald Trump said Monday he would “remove the Jew haters” if reelected, speaking at an event commemorating the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks in Israel. “I will defend our ...

Five Russian mountaineers have died after they apparently slipped and fell on the world’s seventh highest peak. An expedition organizer confirmed the deaths. They were climbing Mount Dhaulagiri in ...

China’s economic planning agency has outlined details of measures aimed at boosting the economy but refrained from major spending initiatives. The piecemeal nature of the plans announced Tuesday ...

Mozambicans are expected to turn out in large numbers on Wednesday for an election that will choose a successor to President Filipe Nyusi after his two terms. Close to 17 million voters in the ...

Israeli military strikes are targeting Iran’s armed proxies across a nearly 2,000-mile stretch of the Middle East and are threatening Iran itself. The efforts raise the possibility of an end to two ...

Black registered voters have an overwhelmingly positive view of Vice President Kamala Harris. That’s according to a recent poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About 7 in 10 Black ...