A look at cherry blossom trees in Japan and other parts of the world, as blooming season is underway.

Some fungal diseases in humans no longer respond to medicines, which increases the risk of severe illness and death as well disease spread, according to a new report.

Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan, Paul Mescal and Joseph Quinn were officially introduced on Monday as the four actors tackling a huge challenge portraying the Beatles in four films, part of Sam Mendes's ambitious project slated for the big screen in 2028.

Bakeries in the Gaza Strip shuttered Tuesday after running outof flour and diesel to operate, as a month-long Israeli blockade on food and aid entering the territory remains in place.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday she has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel on Dec. 4.

A teenager from the West Bank who was held in an Israeli prison for six months without being charged died after collapsing in unclear circumstances, becoming the first Palestinian under 18 to die in Israeli detention, officials said.

Hooters, the U.S.-based restaurant chain known for chicken wings and "Hooters Girls" in skimpy wait-staff outfits, has filed for bankruptcy protection.

China began joint army, navy and rocket force exercises around Taiwan on Tuesday as a "stern warning" against separatism and called Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te a "parasite," as Taiwan sent warships to respond to China's navy approaching its coast.

A B.C. man is in custody in Washington state, accused of acting as a middleman in a years-long conspiracy to smuggle U.S. technology through Canada in a bid to bypass laws meant to limit Pakistan's military ambitions.

Youth activist Enes Hocaoullar is preparing for the possibility of arrest upon his return to Turkey, following his speech about the anti-government protests at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Strasbourg, France.

After returning home earlier this month, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke to the media about their extended nine-month stay on the International Space Station.

Worshippers are marking the end of Ramadan with Eid al-Fitr celebrations around the world.

Israel has proposed an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for the return of about half the remaining hostages, Israeli officials said on Monday, as the military issued new evacuation orders and said "intense operations" were planned in the south of the enclave.

A French court found Marine Le Pen guilty on Monday in an embezzlement case, with a sentence that barred her from public office for five years with "immediate effect."

The bodies of eight Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) medics who came under fire in Gaza just over a week ago have been recovered, though a ninth worker is still unaccounted for, the Red Cross said.

The explosive mass rape trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other French men may have come to an end Dec. 19, but for his daughter, Caroline Darian, the story was nowhere near over. She shares what the ordeal has been like for her mother and herself in a new memoir, Ill Never Call Him Dad Again.

South Korean adoption agencies sent children abroad like "luggage" for decades, labelling some as orphans when they had parents, and sending alternative babies when infants had died before heading overseas, a truth commissionhas said.

As Muslims in Gaza prepare to mark Eid this weekend and the end of the holy month of Ramadan, families say they're barely making ends meet with no food entering the territory for nearly a month.

U.S. Vice-President JD Vance slammed Denmark during a visit to Greenland on Friday, saying it has not done a good job in keeping the semi-autonomous Danish territory and its people safe from incursions by China and Russia,while pledging respect for Greenland's sovereignty and asking its people 'to partner' with the United States.

Bayern Munich is considering legal action against the Canadian soccer federation following Alphonso Davies' serious knee injury in a match of little importance.

The woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Prez has been denied parole and will continue serving a life sentence for fatally shooting the rising young singer at a Texas motel in 1995, the states parole board announced Thursday.