LONDON (AP) — Pope Francis was admitted to a Rome hospital for abdominal surgery on Wednesday afternoon after developing a painful hernia linked to a 2021 operation to remove a…
The best images taken in 2022 by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean revealed the reality of migration, poverty and violence, but they also showcased the…
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Before American talk show host Jimmy Fallon poked fun at Woody, Nova Scotia’s creepily robotic Christmas tree, holiday shoppers in Newfoundland were already chuckling…
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — An emerald inscribed for a Mughal emperor. A Safavid-period knotted wool carpet. An Ottoman-era curtain, intricately embroidered with metal threads, which was part of…
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The World Cup in Qatar has become a political lightning rod, so it comes as no surprise that soccer fans’ sartorial style has sparked controversy.Forget your classic…
OSORNO, Chile (AP) — In labor with her first child last month, Lucia Hernández Rumian danced around her hospital room while her husband played the kultrun, a ritual drum. She turned down…
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona victims of long-ago child sex abuse can proceed with lawsuits against groups like the Boy Scouts of America after the state Supreme Court rejected claims that a…
There are few COVID-19 public health measures in place across Canada for this weekend’s Easter and Passover celebrations for the first time since the spring of 2020.But some religious…
TORONTO - Zarqa Nawaz is no stranger to satire, particularly the kind that makes people uncomfortable. Consider her 1995 debut “BBQ Muslims,” a fictional short about two Canadian Muslims…
NEW YORK (AP) — Parishioners worshipping at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Harlem are greeted by a framed portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. -- a Baptist minister named after a…