ConcepciΓ³n Alejo is used to being invisible. Now, as Mexico is on its way to elect its first female president, women like her who feel forgotten by their government hope that having a female leader might shift the balance in their favor.
The International Organization for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from aΒ massive landslide in Papua New GuineaΒ to more than 670 as emergency responders and traumatized relatives gave up hope that any survivors will now be found.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the countryβs foreign minister have been found dead hours after their helicopter crashed in fog.
A helicopter carryingΒ Iranian President Ebrahim RaisiΒ suffered a βhard landingβ on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without elaborating.
French police were hunting for armed robbers Saturday who hit a jewelry store on one of Paris' poshest streets, and media reports said the target was the exclusive Harry Winston boutique, self-described βJeweler to the Stars."
The last U.S. zoo with pandas in its care expects to say goodbye to the four giant bears this fall.
French police shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who is suspected of having started a fire that charred and blackened the insides of a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen early Friday.
Slovakiaβs populist Prime Minister Robert Fico is in life-threatening condition after being wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon, according to his Facebook profile.
These critical aid flights transported more than 45 tons of urgently needed items such as community water filtration systems, household water filters, blankets, hygiene kits, solar lights, and more to the flood-stricken country.
Dozens of students protested and marched on the UNC Charlotte campus in support of Palestine.Β
Authorities say massive floods in Brazilβs southern Rio Grande do Sul state have killed at least 75 people over the last seven days and another 103 are reported missing.
Panamanians are voting in an election that has been consumed by unfolding drama surrounding the countryβs former president, even though he's not on the ballot.
Morgan FreemanΒ spoke the words, but pretty much everyone who took the stage at the presentation of the AFI Life Achievement Award agreed: βΒ Nicole Kidman. She makes movies better.β
Pope Francis traveled to the lagoon city to visit the Holy Seeβs pavilion at the Biennale contemporary art show. But because the Vatican decided to mount its exhibit in Veniceβs womenβs prison, andΒ invited inmates to collaborate with the artists, the whole project assumed a far more complex meaning.
British army veteran Bill Gladden, one of the dwindling number of veterans who took part in the landings that kicked off the campaign to liberate Western Europe from the Nazis duringΒ World War II, died Wednesday. He was 100.
The European Space Agency has added five new members to its astronaut corps, bringing the space agency's astronaut roster up to 11.
Andrew Davis, an acclaimed British conductor who was music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on three continents, has died. He was 80.
A race car veered off the track during a competition in Sri Lanka on Sunday and rammed into a crowd of spectators and race officials, killing seven people and injuring 20 others.
The House passed legislation Saturday that would banΒ TikTokΒ in the United States if the popular social media platform's China-based owner doesnβt sell its stake within a year.
Canadian police say nine people are facing charges in the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Torontoβs Pearson International airport a year ago.
