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iStock(NEW YORK) — An American woman has died after she was attacked by a shark while snorkeling in the Bahamas, authorities said. The woman, an adult, was swimming in waters near Rose Island when she […]

ABC News(SEOUL) — Eileen Lee, 41, ditched her well-paying job at one of the top conglomerates in South Korea to become a YouTuber. Lee, who now runs her own firm, believes that a YouTube channel […]

AlxeyPnferov/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Just before taking off on Air Force One for the G20 summit in Osaka, President Donald Trump complained about the longstanding U.S. defense pact with Japan, America’s closest ally in Asia, and bashed […]

stevanovicigor/iStock(NEW YORK) — One of the world’s largest cities is grappling with a water crisis that, at least in the short term, can only be fixed by rain. Chennai, the fourth-largest city in India with […]

Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are heading to Africa. The royals and new parents to son Archie will visit South Africa this fall. Nigel Casey, the […]

FourOaks/iStock(NEW YORK) — Authorities are searching for a pair of tourists from New Jersey who vanished while jet skiing in Barbados, police said Tuesday. Oscar Suarez, 32, and Magdalena Devil, 25, disappeared Monday at around […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(TEHRAN, Iran) — Ghader Daemi Aghdam, an Iranian doctor and head of a pharmacy in the capital, Tehran, sat in his office, avoiding the chaos at the reception desk where patients were complaining […]

Brian Ach/Getty Images for TIME(WASHINGTON) — A U.S.-backed Palestinian economic workshop began in Bahrain Tuesday evening with no Palestinian or Israeli participation, facing rejection or indifference across much of the Middle East. Palestinian leadership had […]

Paula Lobo/ABC(NEW YORK) — The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, announced Tuesday that a closed court hearing reaffirmed the court’s January decision that Amanda Knox’s defense rights had been violated in 2007 […]

Courtesy Carilion Clinic(NEW YORK) — An American doctor was murdered in Belize in what local authorities are saying was a shooting involving a member of a gang. Dr. Gary Swank was found dead Sunday alongside […]

JACQUELYN MARTIN/AFP/Getty Images(KABUL, Afghanistan) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, just days before the latest round of U.S. talks with the Taliban are set to begin. Pompeo […]

Chris Jackson/Getty Images(LONDON) — Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, has picked up a new patronage that focuses on one of her favorite hobbies: photography. On Tuesday, the Royal Photographic Society announced that Kate, 37, was […]

BravissimoS/iStock(BERLIN) — An alcohol ban in the East German village of Ostritz ensured that Neo-Nazis attending the Schild und Schwert (Sword and Shield) festival would be starved of a favorite German concert-going beverage. A court […]

Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage(LONDON) — The renovations undertaken by Prince Harry and Meghan to turn Frogmore Cottage into their family home came at a price of 2.4 million pounds, or about $3 million, for British taxpayers, […]

Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The murder of Washington Post Jamal Khashoggi did not come up in Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s meeting with the Saudi king on Monday, according to a senior State Department official. […]

Jetlinerimages/iStock(TORONTO) — A sleeping passenger was left on board an Air Canada flight earlier this month hours after the plane had landed and the crew disembarked. Tiffani O’Brien, of Ontario, Canada, said she fell asleep […]

SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Monday announced new “hard-hitting” sanctions on Iran, including on the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Trump signed an executive order imposing the sanctions, which he promised […]

deeltijdgod/iStock(NEW DELHI) — The bodies of seven climbers who went missing in the Himalayas within India last month have been recovered, officials said. A search team from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police retrieved the bodies on […]

deeltijdgod/iStock(NEW DELHI, India) — The bodies of seven climbers who went missing in the Himalayas within India last month have been recovered, officials said. A search team from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police retrieved the bodies […]

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images(LONDON) — There is a peculiarly British phrase for all those things that split opinions to the extent that no one, no matter how indifferent, has to pick a side. Named after a […]