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Two people have been killed, hundreds of homes inundated and thousands told to evacuate as flooding again battered Australia’s southeast coast. It comes as the country is still reeling from...

Xi Jinping started a momentous congress of China’s Communist Party on Sunday with a 104-minute speech focusing on the challenges that China has faced over the past five years, saying the party...

LIMA, Peru — On Sept. 22, Carlos Lalangui was digging a trench to make way for a natural gas pipeline on the outskirts of this city when he spotted fragments of a human skull a dozen inches down in...

LONDON — King Charles III and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, will be crowned May 6 at Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday, the first coronation in Britain in seven decades...

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Ben Bernanke, the former Federal Reserve chair, and two other academics who have helped to reshape how the world understands the...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In March, Katelin Cruz left her latest psychiatric hospitalization with a familiar mix of feelings. She was, on the one hand, relieved to leave the ward, where aides took away her...

All through childhood, Miriam Abdullah was shuttled in and out of hospitals, her thin body racked with fever and ravaged by malaria. She was so sick so often that her constant treatments drained her...

On a recent weekday morning, during the rush to get out the door, my husband, Ben, started telling me about a podcast he’d just heard on the health impacts of air pollution — seemingly oblivious...

In China’s far west region of Xinjiang, officials imposed a near-total lockdown and made a rare admission of failure in their handling of a COVID-19 outbreak. In Inner Mongolia in the north, the...

It was supposed to be a joyous occasion for fans of Arema FC, the most beloved soccer team in Malang. Tens of thousands of young people — who call themselves “Aremania” — had packed the...

SHENZHEN, China — The signs of a looming lockdown in Shenzhen, China, had been building for a while. The city had been logging a few coronavirus infections for days. Daily COVID tests were required...

RIO DE JANEIRO — For the past decade, Brazil has lurched from one crisis to the next: environmental destruction, an economic recession, one president impeached, two presidents imprisoned, and a...

SOWETO, South Africa — For seven years, a daily pill has been available in South Africa to protect people from getting HIV. But when Victoria Makhandule, a community health worker, counsels the...

Canada announced Monday that it would remove all remaining coronavirus entry restrictions, including testing and quarantine requirements, effective Oct. 1, ending some of the world’s longest and...

After the success of a limited pilot program for online passport renewal this summer, the US State Department says it plans to fully launch an online passport-renewal option for the general public...

Although Devangi Patel, 33, has been working as a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist at a large medical center outside Atlanta for only two years, her goal is to afford to walk away from her job at 50. ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — As the sad scene now playing out on an Australian beach attests, rescuing an animal larger than a car is no easy matter. On Wednesday, about 230 pilot whales were stranded...

When the state-owned factory where Hesham el-Atar worked for 15 years was liquidated this month, he had a feeling it was linked to international pressure on the Egyptian government to reduce its role...

LONDON — The flowers have been cleared. Union Jacks no longer fly at half-staff. Ads have replaced Queen Elizabeth II’s image on bus shelters. A day after burying their revered monarch, Britons...

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest Monday, after a majestic state funeral at Westminster Abbey and a grand procession to Windsor Castle that is expected to draw a vast crowd,...