CANDON, Ilocos Sur — After years of battling on opposite sides of one of the fiercest rivalries in collegiate volleyball, Alyssa Valdez and Ara Galang are finally sharing the same court as teammates — this time, united under the Philippine flag.
President Lee Jae-myung said Wednesday that South Korea will continue to pursue crimes committed against its citizens overseas, following the arrest of a former Filipino police officer suspected of masterminding the 2016 kidnapping and murder of Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Multiple attackers killed 12 people and wounded at least nine others in a late-night mass shooting in the South African city of Johannesburg, police said Wednesday.
A row over noise between an Osborne Park day hospital and a gym has landed in court, with a judge forcing the temporary closure of the fitness centre ahead of a trial next month.
Foreigners who have been unlawfully held in immigration detention could claim tens of millions of dollars in compensation after the High Court rejected the government’s argument that it should not be held liable for illegal detentions.
Widespread rioting broke out in Belfast after police arrested a Sudanese man on Tuesday over a knife attack, prompting online calls for anti-immigration protests.
A large, burning cross was discovered at a Chicago park on Tuesday afternoon, and police said they are investigating how it ended up there and the motive behind it.
Illegal mini-marts, barbers and vape shops could be shut for up to a year under new powers announced by the government, following lengthy investigative reporting by BBC News into organised crime on British high streets.
NEW YORK — A former Taliban commander was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Tuesday for crimes including kidnapping a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and providing support that led to the deaths of three American soldiers.
A Texas teenager accused of fatally stabbing one of his peers at a high school athletics event in the Dallas area was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday.
State admits former Greens candidate entitled to damages and agrees to pay medical costs, but denies malicious prosecution and malfeasance in public office
Afghan authorities cracked down on a protest in western Afghanistan Tuesday against the arrest and detention of more than a dozen women over dress code violations, with eyewitnesses saying police opened fire, leaving at least three people injured.
U.K. authorities pleaded for calm following a knife attack in Belfast that led to the arrest of a Sudanese national and prompted protest calls from the far right.
Three people, including one Border Police officer, were arrested on Monday on suspicion of having attempted murder one month before, police announced on Tuesday.
Fulton County Senior ADA Eleanor Ross speaks during opening statements Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 in Atlanta. (Vino Wong/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
Texas Tech transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby has won a temporary injunction against the NCAA over his gambling suspension. AP writer Eddie Pells explains the reaction in the college sports world to Sorsby’s court win.
A federal judge in the United States has permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas, after declaring that the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers the State of the State address at the Michigan Capitol Building in Lansing, Mich., Feb. 25, 2026. (Devin Anderson-Torrez/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP, File)
A coalition of civil rights groups on Tuesday asked a state judge to order one of New York’s largest suburban counties to stop its deployment of nearly 600 license plate readers, calling it a warrantless and “indiscriminate surveillance system” that violates the state constitution.
Protesters gather outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, June 8, 2026, to oppose an upcoming execution in Alabama. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)
Flags fly above at the Reynolds Coliseum on the campuse of North Carolina State University, Feb. 19, 2022, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Kara Durrette, File)
MCKINNEY, Texas — A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old track athlete from a rival team during a competition was convicted of murder Tuesday in a trial that drew attention far beyond the booming Dallas suburb where the two students attended different high schools.
LONDON — U.K. leaders called for calm Tuesday after the arrest of a Sudanese man accused of trying to kill a man in a vicious stabbing on a Belfast street sparked fiery anti-immigration protests because the suspect is an asylum-seeker.