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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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