OSTROLEKA, Poland (AP) - A 19-year-old student at a vocational school in northern Poland attacked fellow students, teachers and passersby with a sharp object Wednesday, injuring eight people before fleeing and being arrested nearby, authorities said. ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) - Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine. ...

MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Isaias formed early Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters said it was expected to strengthen into a hurricane and hit the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week. Isaias was located about 28...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case of plague at a Siberian research institute. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump ...

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is awake and speaking at a hospital, her lawyers said Tuesday, six days after the state's failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection left her unconscious and on a ventilator. Pike, 50, surviv...

SEATTLE (AP) - Federal authorities said Tuesday that they have arrested and charged a 30-year-old from Washington state with encouraging an 18-year-old to commit one of the worst school shootings in Canada's history by offering to livestream the Februa...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A wealthy couple in suburban Los Angeles recruited women across the country to serve as surrogates, promising them that they were just looking for another child to grow their family. Instead, prosecutors say, the couple...

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - A former high-ranking Department of Justice official will look at how Cornell handles sexual misconduct complaints, university trustees announced Tuesday as they tried to address an outpouring of anger over allegations of a 2024 gan...

LONDON (AP) - British police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in London on suspicion of a terror offense over a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that authorities have linked to Iran. The arrest is the seve...

STOCKHOLM (AP) - Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved. ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - There were no survivors among 25 people on board a Nigerian Air Force plane that crashed Monday in southern Nigeria's Ondo state, officials said. The ATR-42 aircraft crashed while carrying 20 passengers and five crew...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said two commercial vessels were struck by drones on Tuesday in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea. "This is an unacceptab...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan authorities on Tuesday confirmed the country's first imported Ebola case from Congo, making Kenya the latest country affected by the fast-moving outbreak. Health Minister Aden Duale said a Kenyan citizen who a...

BERLIN (AP) - A former head of Germany 's foreign intelligence service was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion that he had passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor's office said. August Hanning, who led ...

BRANSON, Mo. (AP) - Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful "The PTL Club" TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86. Ba...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) - A school bus flipped over onto its roof during a multivehicle crash in central Florida on Monday morning, killing two people - including a 10th grade girl - and injuring several others, authorities said. Nearly 4...

ONDO, Nigeria (AP) - A military aircraft crashed Monday in southern Nigeria with 25 passengers and 7 crew members on board, triggering a frantic search and rescue operation, authorities said. There was no immediate word on whether there were casualties...

CHICAGO (AP) - Dennis Hastert, whose congressional legacy as the longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a co...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Two boats collided over the weekend on the Congo River, killing at least 30 people and leaving dozens missing, local authorities in Congo said Monday. The motorized wooden boats crashed into one another on Sunday ev...

ADEN, Yemen (AP) - Forces of the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen have recaptured several key areas around the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Iran-backed Houthi rebels, Yemeni officials said Monday, while the Houthis claimed attacks on Saudi ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works. Dr. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel carried out research tha...

LONDON (AP) - Former Prince Andrew has filed a legal action challenging the warrants that authorized searches at two of his homes earlier this year as British police investigated allegations related to his links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein...

MADRID (AP) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced early elections Monday after his government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week on emergency measures related to the country's housing crisis. The vote will be held...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford base. The bombers were ...

Searchers found a "debris field" off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, from an air ambulance that was carrying six people when it vanished over the Atlantic on Saturday during a flight from Bermuda to Boston, the U.S. Coast Guard said. ...

VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) - President Donald Trump on Saturday defended data centers that power artificial intelligence projects but have become a contentious campaign issue nationwide, as he took his midterm tour to Ohio to insist his party will keep its ma...

Cornell's president called the alleged gang rape of a student at a fraternity house in 2024 "deeply disturbing" Saturday, said it would weigh on the university for years to come and pledged greater transparency amid mounting outrage over the school's h...

Nolo strengthened into a major hurricane Saturday far out in the Pacific Ocean, well to the west of Hawaii's main islands. The storm's maximum sustained winds rapidly intensified to 115 mph (185 kph), the Miami-based National Hurricane C...