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Pope Francis talks with faithful dressed as the Three Wise Men at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope warns Vatican staff an 'elegant demon' lurks among them
Pope Francis has warned Vatican bureaucrats to beware the devil that lurks among them, saying it is an “elegant demon” that works in people who have a rigid, holier-than-thou way of living the … more
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Turkey, Saudi Arabia decry Taliban university ban for women
Turkey and Saudi Arabia are the latest Muslim-majority countries to condemn a decision by Taliban authorities to bar women from universities. Meanwhile, about two dozen women staged a protest in the … more
A seagull stands in a thin layer of seawater surfacing in St. Mark's Square in Venice, northern Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, during a moderately high tide. Glass barriers that prevent seawater from flooding the 900-year-old iconic St Mark's Basilica, reflected in the background, have been recently installed. St. Mark's Square is the lowest-laying city area and frequently ends up underwater during extreme weather. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
AP PHOTOS: Glass barriers keep Venice's iconic basilica dry
VENICE, Italy (AP) — It’s a simple solution, but one that may keep the marble columns and valuable mosaics of Venice’s iconic St. Mark’s Basilica safe from seawater-induced erosion: A set of … more
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A label with the logo of the War Childhood Museum featuring Ukrainian and Bosnian flags is placed on a present for a child in Ukraine prepared by Bosnian children , at the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. In homes and schools around Bosnia, youngsters have been preparing gift boxes they hope will put a smile on the faces of their peers living through war in Ukraine. For parents and educators helping the kids select what to send, the experience has awakened a rare found memory of the time when they were on the receiving end of the kindness of strangers while growing up and living in constant fear of death. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Bosnian children's gifts to Ukraine evoke parents' memories
In homes and schools around Bosnia, youngsters have been preparing gift boxes they hope will put a smile on the faces of their peers living through war in Ukraine. For parents and educators helping … more
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Aviator and adventurer Garrett Fisher flies his plane above the Folgefonna glacier in Norway, on Aug. 10, 2022. Fisher is on a mission to photograph all the remaining glaciers that are not in the polar regions before they disappear. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
AP PHOTOS: Aviator races to photograph all glaciers
VOSS, Norway (AP) — Garrett Fisher is traveling the world in his tiny blue-white “Super Cub” aircraft, on a quest to document every remaining glacier on Earth. The 41-year-old Fisher does … more
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FILE - Convicted French serial killer Charles Sobhraj is escorted by police from court in Katmandu, Nepal on Aug. 12, 2004. Confessed serial killer Sobhraj, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Nepal, was ordered Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, to be released because of poor health, good behavior and having already served most of his sentence. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi, File)
French serial killer Charles Sobhraj to leave Nepal prison
A confessed French serial killer has been ordered released from prison in Nepal after serving most of his sentence. The Supreme Court ordered for Charles Sobhraj to be released because of poor health … more
A patient is turned away from the emergency room due to full capacity at the Baoding No. 2 Central Hospital in Zhuozhou city in northern China's Hebei province on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. China only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, a Chinese health official said, in a narrow definition that limits the number of deaths reported, as an outbreak of the virus surges following the easing of pandemic-related restrictions. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
WHO "very concerned" about reports of severe COVID in China
The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is “very concerned” about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its “zero … more
Residents leave flowers outside a condominium building the day after a shooting in Vaughan, Ontario, on Monday Dec, 19, 2022. Canadian authorities say the man who killed five people and wounded a sixth at a condominium building near Toronto before an officer killed him was a 73-year-old resident, Francesco Velli. (Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press via AP)
Estranged kids of Canada condo gunman say he was abusive
Three estranged daughters of a 73-year-old man who fatally shot five people in his condominium near Toronto say he “was a controlling and abusive husband and father.” The daughters of Francesco … more
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Iran security forces kill 2, arrest 2 over deadly attack
Iran's state media says security forces killed two men and arrested two others suspected of carrying out a shooting in the restive southwest last month that left seven people dead. State media said … more
FILE - A woman holds an umbrella to shelter from the sun during a hot sunny day in Madrid, Spain, Monday, July 18, 2022. Spain’s national weather service said preliminary data indicates that 2022 will finish with average daily temperatures above 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time since records started in 1961. It says that the four hottest years on record for the southern European country have all come since 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)
Spain records hottest year ever in 2022
Spain’s national weather service said preliminary data indicates that 2022 will finish with average daily temperatures above 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time since … more
Vega-C rocket lifting off from its launch pad at the Kourou space base, French Guiana, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. The launch of a European Vega C rocket carrying two Airbus satellites failed less than three minutes after lift-off from the European base in French Guiana on Wednesday. (JM Guillon/ESA via AP)
Failure of Vega-C rocket launch in French Guiana
The launch of a European Vega C rocket carrying two Airbus satellites has failed less than three minutes after liftoff from the European base in French Guiana. Arianespace, which provided the launch … more
FILE - People displaced by the fighting between M23 rebels and FARDC government forces gather North of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Nov. 25, 2022. Hundreds of thousands of people have been uprooted from their homes by fighting that began over a year ago in eastern Congo between M23 rebels, militias and government forces. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
More pressure on Rwanda as France condemns backing rebels
International pressure is growing on Rwanda as France is the latest party to openly accuse the country of supporting armed rebels in neighboring eastern Congo _ with possible repercussions for … more
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Activists of the "Last Generation" hold the top of a Christmas Tree and show a banner reading: 'It's just the top of the Christmas tree' at the Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Climate activists have cut off the tip of the Christmas, tree erected in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. The group Last Generation said two of its members used a hydraulic lift and a hand saw to cut six feet off the top of the 50-foot tree. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)
Climate activists decapitate prominent Berlin Christmas tree
Climate activists say they have sawed off the tip of the Christmas tree erected in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. The group Last Generation said two of its members used a hydraulic lift … more
Afghan women weep as Taliban fighters enforce university ban
Taliban security forces in Afghanistan's capital city are upholding a higher education ban for women by blocking access to university campuses. The country’s Taliban rulers have ordered women … more
FILE - Resident walks amid debris after a Russian attack in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Nov. 24, 2022. In a deliberate, widespread campaign, Russian forces systematically targeted influential Ukrainians, nationally and locally, to neutralize resistance through detention, torture and executions, an Associated Press investigation has found. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
'We will find you:' Russians hunt down Ukrainians on lists
About a week after the first Russian bombs struck Ukraine, Andrii Kuprash, the head of a village north of Kyiv, got a threatening call from an unknown number. “We will find you,” the man said in … more
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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, looks on as he meets soldiers at the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian invaders in Bakhmut, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Kremlin warning: More US arms to Ukraine will aggravate war
The Kremlin is warning that increasing the supply of U.S. arms to Kyiv will aggravate the devastating 10-month war ignited by Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov … more
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Depiction of Viktor Maruniak. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
The Hunted: These are the Ukrainians Russia wanted to find
One was asked to be an informant for Russia. Another’s 16-year-old son was abducted as leverage. A third is still in Russian custody. All were among the prominent Ukrainian politicians, … more
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Theatre actors perform to children at the Dzherelo rehabilitation center during celebrations for Saint Nicholas Day, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. In a country where children have seen the horrors of a 10-month war, there are people trying to bring some peace and happiness to kids, at least for a moment during this holiday season in Ukraine. That has been happening this week in the outskirts of Kyiv at what used to be the upscale Venice hotel. Now it’s a rehabilitation center housing children who have experienced the horrors of the Russian invasion. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
On the holidays, efforts to distract Ukrainian kids from war
In a country where children have seen the horrors of a 10-month war, there are people trying to bring some peace and happiness to kids, at least for a moment during this holiday season in Ukraine. … more
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FILE - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), gestures as he speaks to journalists during a press conference organized by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. In recent days, social media has been flooded by posts from Tigrayans who say they have learned of the deaths of loved ones. The most prominent was World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)
Long-cut phones ring again in Ethiopia's Tigray, bring grief
For a year and a half, phone calls to people trying to survive one of the world’s worst conflicts didn’t go through. Now, as phone lines start to be restored to parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray … more
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Whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi order perform during a Sheb-i Arus ceremony in Konya, Turkey, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
AP PHOTOS: Dervishes on mystic Rumi's path whirl for God
The robes of Turkey's whirling dervishes symbolize funeral shrouds, the cloaks a tomb and the hats a tombstone. The dervishes, a Sufi order of Islam that is rooted in mysticism, are chiefly known for … more
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