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  The Latest: N. Carolina reports an additional death

  September 26, 2018 19:15 IST

  North Carolina is reporting another death caused by Hurricane Florence and its remnants

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  The Latest: Convicted killer of Kim Wall loses appeal

  September 26, 2018 19:00 IST

  Danish submarine inventor Peter Madsen, convicted of torturing and murdering Swedish reporter Kim Wall last year, has lost his appeal against his life sentence

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  Convicted Danish submarine killer loses appeal

  September 26, 2018 19:00 IST

  Danish submarine inventor Peter Madsen, convicted of torturing and murdering Swedish reporter Kim Wall last year, lost his appeal against his life sentence Wednesday, shortly after he apologized to the victim's family

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  Escobar's homer lifts D-Backs over Dodgers, tightens NL West

  September 26, 2018 19:00 IST

  Eduardo Escobar homers off Kenta Maeda leading off 9th inning, Arizona Diamondbacks tighten NL West race with 4-3 victory over Los Angeles Dodgers

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  APNewsBreak: 2nd Ohio diocese to release abusive priest list

  September 26, 2018 18:45 IST

  A second Roman Catholic diocese in Ohio says it will release a list of priests who have been accused of sexual abuse and misconduct

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  8 Burkina Faso soldiers die after vehicle hits explosive

  September 26, 2018 18:45 IST

  8 Burkina Faso soldiers die after vehicle hits explosive; extremist threat on the rise

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  Italian budget 'to include basic income' pledge

  September 26, 2018 18:30 IST

  Italy's economy minister says that the first budget by Italy's new government will include a basic income scheme sought by one of the main governing parties

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  Armed men kill 12 civilians in Mali near Niger border

  September 26, 2018 18:30 IST

  Armed men kill 12 civilians in Mali near Niger; possible retaliation for extremist assault

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  Morocco: Woman killed after navy fires on migrant boat

  September 26, 2018 18:30 IST

  The head of the Northern Observatory for Human Right says a 22-year-old woman was killed after Morocco's Royal Navy opened fire on a boat suspected of carrying migrants

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  UK presses Iran's leaders over detained charity worker

  September 26, 2018 18:30 IST

  Britain's prime minister has raised the case of a detailed British-Iranian charity worker with the Iranian president

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  Zimbabwe's leader says he offers Trump land for golf course

  September 26, 2018 18:15 IST

  Zimbabwe's leader says he offers Trump land for golf course in park teeming with wildlife

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  The Latest: Kavanaugh accuser has 4 affidavits backing claim

  September 26, 2018 18:15 IST

  Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford say they have submitted sworn affidavits to the Senate Judiciary Committee from four people who say she told them that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her in high school

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  China announces tariff cut but no action on US complaints

  September 26, 2018 18:15 IST

  China announces cut in import tariffs but no action on US complaints

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  Czech central bank again lifts key interest rate

  September 26, 2018 17:30 IST

  The Czech Republic's central bank has raised its key interest rate for the third time since June, by a quarter point to1.50 percent.

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  Copy of 'Lady Chatterley' used at obscenity trial for sale

  September 26, 2018 17:30 IST

  A paperback copy of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" used by the judge in the book's landmark U.K. obscenity trial is expected to sell at auction for up to 15,000 pounds ($20,000)

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  'American Pie' Mason Cox and Magpies in AFL final

  September 26, 2018 17:30 IST

  The Australian Football League grand final annually attracts a crowd of about 100,000 to the Melbourne Cricket Ground _ the largest single-game attendance of any sporting event Down Under

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  Westminster Abbey gets Hockney-designed stained glass window

  September 26, 2018 17:30 IST

  A stained glass window by artist David Hockney, based on a design he sketched on an iPad, has been unveiled at London's ancient Westminster Abbey

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  Wisconsin museum with large angel collection is closing

  September 26, 2018 17:30 IST

  A Wisconsin museum containing the world's largest collection of angels is closing

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  Report says nearly 400,000 'excess deaths' in South Sudan

  September 26, 2018 17:15 IST

  New report estimates nearly 400,000 'excess deaths' in South Sudan's civil war

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  Far-right German party's plans for Jewish section criticized

  September 26, 2018 17:15 IST

  The Jewish Students Union of Germany says it's planning to protest against the founding of a Jewish section within the nationalist Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party

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  GOP picks female prosecutor to question Kavanaugh, accuser

  September 26, 2018 17:15 IST

  Senate Republicans are bringing in Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to handle questioning about allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

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  Amazon, Whole Foods pushes grocery delivery to new cities

  September 26, 2018 17:15 IST

  Amazon, Whole Foods roll out their grocery deliveries to 10 new cities, promises further expansion ahead

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  How humans fit into Google’s machine future

  September 26, 2018 17:15 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Edward Finn, Arizona State University and Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University(THE CONVERSATION) In 1998, Google began humbly, formally incorporated in a Menlo Park garage, providing search results from a server housed in Lego bricks. It had a straightforward goal: make the poorly indexed World Wide Web accessible to humans. Its success was based on an algorithm that analyzed

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  You can trust the polls in 2018, if you read them carefully

  September 26, 2018 17:15 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Josh Pasek, University of Michigan and Michael Traugott, University of Michigan(THE CONVERSATION) On the morning of Nov. 8, 2016, many Americans went to bed confident that Hillary Clinton would be elected the nation’s first female president. Their confidence was driven, in no small part, by a pervasive message that Clinton was ahead in the polls and forecasts leading up to the

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  Hiring highly educated immigrants leads to more innovation and better products

  September 26, 2018 17:15 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gaurav Khanna, University of California San Diego and Munseob Lee, University of California San Diego(THE CONVERSATION) Much of the current debate over immigration is about what kind of impact immigrants have on jobs and wages for workers born in the United States.Seldom does anyone talk about how immigration leads to a wider variety of better products for the American consumer. We

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  Fraud can scuttle nonprofits but the bigger and older ones fare better

  September 26, 2018 17:15 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sarah Webber, University of Dayton and Deborah Archambeault, University of Dayton(THE CONVERSATION) After a director of the Fairmont-Marion County Food Pantry embezzled more than US$50,000, it had to close for two months in 2009 – leaving 1,200 West Virginians who depended on it in a temporary lurch.The effects of this kind of malfeasance may appear straightforward. Charities caught

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  Don't frack so close to me: Colorado voters will weigh in on drilling distances from homes and schools

  September 26, 2018 17:15 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tara Opsal, Colorado State University and Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University(THE CONVERSATION) Coloradans will vote on a ballot initiative in November that requires new oil and gas projects to be set back at least 2,500 feet from occupied buildings. If approved, the measure – known as both Initiative 97 and Proposition 112 – would mark a major change from their state’s

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  Scientists have been drilling into the ocean floor for 50 years – here's what they've found so far

  September 26, 2018 17:15 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Suzanne O'Connell, Wesleyan University(THE CONVERSATION) It’s stunning but true that we know more about the surface of the moon than about the Earth’s ocean floor. Much of what we do know has come from scientific ocean drilling – the systematic collection of core samples from the deep seabed. This revolutionary process began 50 years ago, when the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger