Authorities in India say severe overcrowding and a lack of exits contributed to a stampede at a religious festival that left at least 121 people dead. Nearly a quarter of a million people attended Tuesday's event. As police search for the…
Shares are mostly higher in Asia after Wall Street's record-breaking rally powered on. Shares fell in Chinese markets but rose in the rest of the region. On Wednesday, U.S. stocks kept rising in a holiday-shortened session after weak…
Zack Littell pitched five innings of four-hit ball before the rain arrived, four Tampa Bay relievers allowed one run the rest of the way, and the Rays beat beat the Royals 5-1. Brandon Lowe homered, Isaac Paredes drove in a pair of runs and…
Teoscar Hernández singled in the go-ahead run in the ninth inning for his third RBI of the game, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-5. The Dodgers scored two runs with two outs to salvage a game in which they owned…
Saeed Jalili is on the precipice of being elected as Iran’s next president as he faces a runoff election Friday against the little-known reform candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon. With Iran’s nuclear program enriching uranium at…
A 6-month-old lion cub named Freya who was rescued from the wildlife trade in Lebanon has been relocated to a sanctuary in South Africa. As she settles in at the Drakenstein Lion Park, animal welfare groups are again drawing attention to…
Shohei Ohtani won’t participate in the Home Run Derby on July 15 despite the Japanese superstar ranking second in the majors with 27 homers for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ohtani has taken part in the Derby just once, exiting in the first…
A Malaysian court has dismissed a bid by imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak to serve his remaining corruption sentence under house arrest. In an application in April, Najib had said that then-King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah…
Japan has issued its first new banknotes in two decades, yen packed with 3D hologram technology to fight counterfeiting. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the state-of-the-art anti-counterfeit traits of the new 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen and…
Elections in the United Kingdom have a distinct vocabulary that draws on traditions of parliamentary democracy as well as the lexicon of U.S. politics and modern political spin. Voters go to the polls on Thursday. The key terms include…