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At the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, Earth finished up its hottest year in recorded history, scientists said. The previous hottest year was 2023. And the next one will be upon us before long: By...

As Los Angeles burned for days on end, horrifying the nation, scientists made an announcement Friday that could help explain the deadly conflagration: 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history. ...

SEOUL, South Korea — The flight recorder of the Jeju Air passenger jet that crashed last month, killing ​179 people, stopped recording for​ its last four minutes, South Korean officials said...

A part of the wealthy Westwood area of Los Angeles came under mandatory evacuation orders Friday evening as the Palisades fire quickly expanded. The area threatened by the wildfire expansion, the...

A civil war in Sudan that has killed 150,000 people and forced more than 11 million others from their homes, by some estimates, prompted the U.S. government on Tuesday to declare that a genocide had...

BAZARAK, Afghanistan — In a chilly auditorium in Afghanistan, heaps of freshly mined green emeralds glowed under bright table lamps as bearded gemstone dealers inspected them for purity and...

Reports of a surge in cases of a respiratory virus in China have evoked dark echoes of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic almost exactly five years ago. But despite the surface similarities, this...

Our species called this latest 366-day journey around the sun “2024” and packed into it a ton of astronomical and spaceflight excitement. A solar eclipse crossed North America. Two robotic...

TOKYO — A Jeju Air crash in South Korea last week, the deadliest plane accident in years, has stunned the global aviation industry. The country is regarded as a model for how to turn poor air safety...

Amazon said Sunday that its Prime Video streaming service will release a “behind-the-scenes” documentary about Melania Trump’s life. The film will head to movie theaters and stream on Amazon...

SEOUL, South Korea — When Jeju Air’s status as South Korea’s biggest low-cost carrier seemed under threat from the merger of the country’s two biggest airlines last year, the company’s CEO...

Syria’s main international airport in Damascus, the capital, will reopen next week, the new government said Saturday, as it tries to reestablish a sense of normalcy after the uprising that toppled...

MUAN, South Korea — Days before setting off on a vacation from which he would never return, Oh Jaejin’s father had been overjoyed at the prospect of becoming a grandfather after Oh told him that...

SEOUL, South Korea — Boeing’s shares fell on Monday, a day after the deadly crash of a 737-800, a widely used model that is a staple of low-cost airlines, at an airport in South Korea. The...

MUAN, South Korea — The passenger plane with 181 people on board skidded on the runway at a high speed and slammed into a wall before exploding into flames. Two crew members were rescued alive...

LOS ANGELES — The struggles have become a painful, recurring storyline in Hollywood. A script supervisor visits a food bank every other week. The cinematographer moved to Georgia for better...

When Russian scientists released a pair of orphaned Amur tiger cubs into the wild in a remote corner of Russia’s far east in 2014, they were trying to save a species. While the tigers, sometimes...

ROME — Roman drivers finally got some relief Monday when, after 450 days of traffic chaos and unprintable curses, a ribbon-cutting ceremony heralded the opening of an underpass along the Tiber River...

This Christmas Eve, a vehicle is traveling at incomprehensible speed around a celestial object to bring wonder to the people of Earth — and it’s not Santa’s sleigh. On Tuesday at 6:40 a.m....

Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan are discussing a possible merger, in a bid to share costs and help themselves compete in a fast-changing and increasingly competitive industry. But a merger,...