SYDNEY (AP) — The lustrous, metallic allure of gold has long fueled intrigue and in recent months its market fortunes have also reflected global geopolitical and economic tumult. As markets …

ROME (AP) — A faded, four-story building that was once a pasta factory now houses the warehouse and bustling workshop of the Rome Opera House. The building is home to a trove of scenic backdrops …

Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists. They’re oblivious to the fact that behind its faded, flaking paint is a hive of activity …

The end of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands was exactly 80 years ago on May 5. But it came too late for around 20,000 people who died of as a result of starvation or freezing temperatures in …

Voters in many areas of England are going to the polls in local elections. The polls are a test of feeling about Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s center-left Labour government, 10 months after it was …

South Korea’s former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo says he will run in next month’s presidential election and would seek to lessen the powers of the office and ease strife-ridden domestic politics …

China's Commerce Ministry says it is evaluating US overtures on tariffs.

Israeli military strikes near Syria's presidential palace after warning Syrian authorities over sectarian attacks.

Moscow-appointed officials in Ukraine's Kherson region say a Ukrainian drone attack killed seven and wounded more than 20 people. They say the drone attack on Thursday struck a market in the town of …

Tourist Nash Core admits he felt some fear when he and his 11-year-old son waded into the ocean off the Australian coast to help rescue a 10-foot great white shark stranded in shallow water. Three …

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called senior officials in India and Pakistan in an effort to defuse the crisis that followed last week’s deadly attack in Kashmir, the State Department said. …

Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri has harshly criticized Syria’s government for what he called an “unjustified genocidal attack” during deadly sectarian fighting in Druze-majority …

India will include caste details in its next population census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous nation. No date has been set …

Several countries are sending firefighting aircraft to Israel as crews battle for a second day to extinguish a wildfire that had shut down a major highway linking Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and sent …

Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian woman who was the world’s oldest person, died on Wednesday at nearly 117. The Company of Saint Teresa of Jesus, a Teresian nun congregation, said Canabarro died …

Oman has announced that planned negotiations between Iran and the United States this weekend over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program have been postponed. A message online from Omani Foreign …

PLANALTINA, Brazil (AP) — Order of the Sunrise followers gathered for their annual May 1st ceremony known as the “Day of the Spiritual Indoctrinator,” at their lakeside temple in Planaltina. …

Shouting “banzai!” or “live long,” thousands of people gathered in a Tokyo park on Thursday and marched through the streets to the banging of traditional drums, as Japan kicked off …

Colombian President Gustavo Petro is pressing on his struggling plan to overhaul the country’s labor laws. On Thursday, he presented Congress a referendum proposal whose questions for voters …

A Michigan jury is considering whether a police officer was justified in fatally shooting a Black man who had taken the officer's Taser and was facedown in a struggle. At the center of Christopher …