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Punishing heat waves gripped three continents Tuesday, breaking records in cities around the Northern Hemisphere less than two weeks after the Earth recorded what scientists said were likely its...

In South Africa, Nelson Mandela is everywhere. The country’s currency bears his smiling face, at least 32 streets are named for him and nearly two dozen statues in his image watch over a country in...

More than 50 pilot whales died Sunday after they were stranded along a beach on the Isle of Lewis, in northwest Scotland. It was the largest mass-stranding event in Britain since 2011, marine rescuers...

During the eight years Stacy Shawhan has worked as an oncology dietitian, she has heard many questions from her cancer patients about how their diets influence their prognosis. But one question has...

Q: I’ve heard that washing your hair every day can strip it of its natural oils, making it dry and brittle and causing scalp irritation. Is that true? And what if I exercise regularly? A: Whether...

A century ago, archaeologists excavated a 3,300-year-old Egyptian palace in Amarna, which was fleetingly the capital of Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh Akhenaten. Situated far from the crowded...

SAN FRANCISCO — Last month, hundreds of well-known people in the world of artificial intelligence signed an open letter warning that AI could one day destroy humanity. “Mitigating the risk of...

BERYSLAV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian soldiers sped along a dirt road, their pickup truck bouncing over ruts, lest they become an easy target for Russian tanks across the Dnieper River. Nearby,...

MONTREAL — Canada on Friday was once again threatened by hundreds of wildfires that for weeks have displaced tens of thousands of people, consumed millions of acres and stoked alarm over the perils...

Hiking is hot right now. From 2018 to 2021, the number of Americans hitting the trails ballooned to 59 million from around 48 million, according to the nonprofit Outdoor Foundation. For Alyson...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A United Nations operation to avert a catastrophic oil spill in the Red Sea by salvaging a decaying supertanker off the coast of Yemen is moving forward this week after...

GANGTOK, India — Sikkim, nestled in the Himalayas and surrounded on three sides by Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet, stands out in the teeming diversity of India’s states. It has the country’s tallest...

Super Typhoon Mawar was moving west over the Pacific Ocean toward the Philippines on Saturday, days after the tropical cyclone brought damaging winds and rain to Guam. As of Saturday morning,...

Does it seem like that long walk back to economy class goes past more and more rows of cushy premium seats? You may be right. Driven by a rise in leisure travelers willing to pay more for a wider...

LONDON — For years, Britain’s governing Conservative Party has pledged to restrict immigration, and a vow to “take back control” of borders and migration was a centerpiece of the Brexit...

ZIBO, China — The flame-shaped neon archway was visible from miles away, which was good since there was little other reason for anyone to be in that part of town, an expanse of fields outside an...

Manila - The Manila Central Post Office, one of the Philippine capital’s most historic buildings, was all but destroyed by fire overnight, officials said Monday morning. The shell of the...

When a devastating earthquake struck in February, Syrian President Bashar Assad spotted an opportunity in disaster. He called for an end to international sanctions on his country and within days, some...

David Duffy, a wildlife geneticist at the University of Florida, just wanted a better way to track disease in sea turtles. Then he started finding human DNA everywhere he looked. Over the past...

Last summer, Joe Loree made an appointment to see his urologist. He’d occasionally noticed blood in his urine and wanted to have that checked out. His doctor ordered a prostate-specific antigen, or...