Scottie Scheffler is the champion golfer of the year and one step closer to the career Grand Slam.

Officials in Indonesia say a passenger ship carrying hundreds of people has caught fire at sea off Sulawesi island.

Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels have signed a declaration aiming for a permanent ceasefire in eastern Congo.

Russia says it's open to peace with Ukraine but insists achieving its goals remains a priority.

Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

D-Day veteran and social media star "Papa Jake" Larson, who survived Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944, has died at 102.

Haze from forest and peatland fires in Indonesia's Sumatra island has reached Malaysia, officials said Sunday.

Bulgarian border authorities say they've seized one of the largest hauls of cocaine hidden in a van heading to Turkey.

Armed Bedouin clans have withdrawn from the Druze-majority Syrian city of Sweida after a week of deadly clashes.

Gaza's Health Ministry says at least 85 Palestinians have been killed while trying to reach food on the deadliest day yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war.

A severe drought this summer in the Balkans has left over 1,000 cows and horses without water on a mountain in southeast Serbia, forcing the authorities to bring up emergency supplies.

In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the seabirds that are part of Norway’s unique coastal ecosystem.

A Vietnamese man who survived the capsizing of a tour boat in Ha Long Bay said he escaped the overturned vessel by swimming out through a window underwater.

Torrential rains in South Korea over five days have caused 17 deaths and left 11 people missing, officials report.

Typhoon Wipha has toppled trees and caused major flight disruptions in Hong Kong and at some nearby airports in China as it moved west off the country’s southern coast.

Exit polls suggest Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's coalition is likely to lose a majority its majority in the smaller of Japan’s two parliamentary houses in a key election.

Georgia Amoore went to an international basketball camp at the 2019 Final Four and was seen for one of the first times by Virginia Tech coaches.

State media in Vietnam have reported that 34 people were killed after a boat carrying tourists capsized during a sudden thunderstorm.

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami have held a major rally in Dhaka.

Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels have signed a declaration in Qatar to end decades of conflict in eastern Congo.

Witnesses and Gaza hospital officials say Israeli troops have killed at least 32 Palestinians near aid distribution hubs in the latest deadly violence around people seeking desperately needed food.

Russia has launched a massive overnight drone and missile attack on Ukraine, killing at least one person.

More than a dozen war veterans from Ukraine were on hand when Oleksandr Usyk faced Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night and Usyk become the undisputed world heavyweight champion.

Andry Hernández Romero, a makeup artist from Venezuela who was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration and held in a notorious mega-prison, was among the scores of migrants sent back to Venezuela in a three-nation exchange Friday.

Venezuela has released 10 jailed U.S. citizens and permanent residents in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador months ago under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Cambodia has intensified its crackdown on online scam centers, arresting over 2,100 suspects since June 27.

Chefs and volunteers in Johannesburg have made 67,000 liters of soup to honor Nelson Mandela Day.

American golfer Bryson DeChambeau is all for President Donald Trump’s Turnberry course in Scotland hosting a British Open for the first time since 2009.

Scottie Scheffler was on a roll no matter the weather in the British Open.

The Tomorrowland music festival has kicked off in Belgium, just two days after a massive fire damaged its main stage.

Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” kicks off with a unique twist this year: “Dancing with Sharks.”.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s new Africa strategy shifts from aid to trade under a “commercial diplomacy” push, urging ambassadors to broker business deals rather than manage aid programs.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor, his press office has confirmed.

President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against media mogul Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal over the newspaper’s reporting on ties between Trump and Jeffery Epstein.

Masai Ujiri is staying focused on his upcoming Giants of Africa Festival even as the longtime NBA executive navigates his recent departure from the Toronto Raptors.

China's Ministry of State Security says it is cracking down on alleged smuggling of rare earths materials that it says threaten national security.

Top church leaders have visited Gaza after its only Catholic church was struck by an Israeli shell the day before.

Officials in Iraq are struggling to identify more than a dozen bodies pulled from a deadly fire at a shopping mall.

The International Criminal Court says that a Libyan man accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes has been arrested.

U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack says that Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire following Israel’s intervention this week in fighting between Syrian government forces and.

The European Union is targeting Russia with more sanctions over its war on Ukraine.

China’s Education Ministry has issued a safety warning for Chinese students in the Philippines, following what it describes as a series of criminal incidents targeting Chinese nationals.

North Korea says it is banning the entry of foreign tourists to a recently opened mega beach resort, a move that dims prospects for the complex.

Kickball is beloved among women in Liberia, where many sporting activities are male-dominated.

Asian countries are offering to buy more U.S. liquefied natural gas to ease trade tensions with the Trump administration.

Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern province that left bloodied bodies of civilians on the streets and homes looted.

Wall Street closed its third winning week in the last four with a quiet finish.

The five-member K-pop group 1VERSE is debuting Friday, with two North Korean defectors alongside members from the United States and Japan.

In the last two months, dozens of Russian regions have been hit by cellphone connectivity outages.

Hong Kong has tightened prison rules, allowing authorities to restrict visits on national security grounds.

The State Department is pulling back from commenting on or criticizing elections overseas unless there's a clear and compelling U.S. foreign policy interest in doing so.

The State Department says its destruction of 500 metric tons of emergency food aid that was stored in a warehouse in the Middle East was required because it had expired.

Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years.

Five immigrants deported by the United States to the small southern African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration’s secretive third-country program are in prison, where they will be held in solitary confinement for an undetermined time.

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy.

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of both local and international players, harking back to the dynamics of the country’s nearly 14-year civil war.

Israel has refused to renew visas for the heads of at least three United Nations agencies in Gaza.

President Donald Trump plans to visit Scotland next week.

British media reports say a major data leak has exposed the identities of U.K. spies and special forces.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.

It is the world’s most popular sport and yet there is still debate over what it should actually be called.

The House is expected to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion in already appropriated funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid.

Britain has announced plans to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 before the next national election.

Syrian government forces have started withdrawing from the southern province of Sweida following days of vicious clashes with militias from the Druze minority.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine's new government plans to boost domestic arms production to meet half its military’s needs within six months.

An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest, according to church officials.

Fresh off securing a plan to receive more U.S. weaponry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed a new prime minister – the key negotiator of his country’s deal with the U.S. to partner on the development of minerals.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has toured a panda breeding facility in the final stages of an extended state visit that has cast China as a fellow champion of a global fair trade system under threat from the United States.

Iraqi officials say a fire engulfed a newly opened shopping center in eastern Iraq, killing more than 60 people in eastern Wasit province.

Yu Zidi of China is only 12 years old and has qualified for the world swimming championships in Singapore.

Wall Street rose to more records following some better-than-expected updates on the economy.

Police are investigating a burglary at a home reportedly owned by Arizona Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have signed a treaty that pledges to tighten defense ties.

The Walt Disney Co. is suing a Hong Kong jewelry company it accuses of selling illegal Mickey Mouse jewelry.

Thousands have been forced to forgo an annual pilgrimage to a revered waterfall in central Haiti, now in territory held by gangs, where they would splash among sacred waters and rub their bodies with aromatic leaves.

Cleaning your electronic devices is essential for hygiene and performance.

Prince Harry has followed in his late mother’s footsteps by wearing a flak jacket and walking down a path in an active land mine field in Angola to raise awareness for a charity’s work clearing explosives from old war zones.

President Donald Trump has hosted Bahrain's crown prince and Qatar's prime minister at the White House.

American companies in China are reporting record-low investment plans and declining confidence in profits this year.

The United States has deported five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos to Eswatini, a small country in southern Africa where the king still holds absolute power.

The program known as PEPFAR is one of the most effective and popular U.S. foreign aid projects in history, and the government says it has saved the lives of over 25 million people around the world with HIV.

A man protesting the participation of an Israel-based team in the Tour de France ran onto the course as the leaders raced for the finish line.

Cambodian authorities have made 1,000 arrests after Prime Minister Hun Manet ordered a crackdown on cybercrime operators.

A key governing partner of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it is quitting the government, leaving him with a minority in parliament.

Bangladeshi security forces have clashed with supporters of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, leaving at least four dead and scores of people injured.

The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the federal cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein.

An $8 billion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders begins, with claims stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

President Donald Trump's links course at Turnberry has not been taken off the British Open rotation.

Europol has announced details of a major international operation targeting a pro-Russian cybercrime group.

USA Bobsled and Skeleton has entered into a multi-year endorsement deal with American Honda, one that will give the sliding sports federation financial and technical support going into both next winter’s Milan-Cortina Olympics and the 2030 Games in the French Alps.

The current and previous British governments are facing criticism over a secret program that resettled thousands of Afghans in the U.K. after the Taliban's return to power in 2021.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says export controls on advanced chips require companies to adapt.

Police in India’s southern Karnataka state say they have found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave.

And Israeli-backed American organization in Gaza says 20 Palestinians died in a stampede at a food distribution center.

Russia has launched overnight attacks on four Ukrainian cities, injuring at least 15 people and targeting energy infrastructure.

Syrian officials and Druze leaders have announced a new ceasefire after days of violent clashes, but Israel has continued its airstrikes after intervening.

A volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland has once again forced the evacuation of local residents and tourists at the internationally known Blue Lagoon geothermal spa.

An American aid organization says 20 Palestinians were killed at a distribution site in Gaza.

The United States says it has sent five immigrants to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program.

A Japanese man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison in China on espionage charges.