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Cameroon still awaiting presidential election results; Africa's oldest leader expected to win

A Moroccan military official says that a 16-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder by a Royal Navy unit that opened fire on a boat carrying some 50 migrants trying to cross to Europe

A woman who was left behind at sea by Libya's coast guard, sparking international outrage, has written to her Spanish rescuers and assured them Wednesday she is being well taken care of in Spain

A woman whose rescue fueled outrage at Italy's efforts to have Libya's coast guard bring migrants back has written to her Spanish rescuers and assured them she is being taken care of

New York State Police: Operator of limo company in crash that killed 20 is in custody, charges pending

Lottery players will have a chance at the nation's ninth-largest jackpot when numbers are drawn for Friday's Mega Millions game

Senate Democrats lose a health care vote but gain on an issue they say will help them with voters

Fellow Republicans are condemning a local GOP official's social media attack saying a Native American congressional candidate in Kansas would be "sent back packing to the reservation."

Trump 'demanding' answers from Saudi government about missing Saudi journalist, plans to invite fiancee to White House

Amazon, facing a backlash from longtime warehouse workers who say its $15 hourly minimum wage wouldn't benefit them, will now provide a bigger raise

The Philadelphia 76ers snapped five straight losing seasons with a 52-30 record last season

Eighth-seeded Alize Cornet lost to 105th-ranked Lusksika Kumkhum of Thailand at the rain-affected Hong Kong Open on Wednesday, while No. 4 Garbine Muguruza easily advanced to the quarterfinals

A letter from an attorney for Tennessee's prisons says the state is refusing a death row inmate's request to die by electrocution because his request came too late and because the affidavit he signed was altered

Colson Whitehead's next novel after "The Underground Railroad" is another look at the country's tragic past

A lawyer for conservative Peruvian opposition leader Keiko Fujimori says she has been detained as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering in her 2011 presidential campaign

European Union officials are working on tougher auto emissions standards aimed at fighting global warming _ but which the industry cautions could hurt workers and consumers

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan and Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, University of Michigan(THE CONVERSATION) Yale economist William Nordhaus has devoted his life’s work to understanding the costs of climate change and advocating the use of a carbon tax to curb global warming. It’s no small irony, then, that on the same day his research shared in the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Brian Greenhill, University at Albany, State University of New York; Aseem Prakash, University of Washington, and Nives Dolsak, University of Washington(THE CONVERSATION) Climate advocates have struggled to persuade half of the U.S. public of the need to do more to slow the pace of global warming. But even as climate scientists are sounding louder and louder alarms about the urgency

Many women business owners say they've encountered gender bias, and developed strategies to deal with it

Lawyer: Peru has detained opposition leader Keiko Fujimori in money-laundering probe