A Mexican music icon is using a typically male genre to sing of women imprisoned for killing their abusers while defending themselves and to highlight the more complicated aspects of gender-based violence.

Associated Press reporter Nicole Winfield, who covered Pope Francis at the Vatican during his entire pontificate, earned the nickname “la prima della classe” -- or “the first in class” -- from him in 2018.

Thai officials say that a small police plane crashed into the sea near a popular beach town, killing all six people on board and leaving one in critical condition.

Three days of public viewing of Pope Francis’ body by ordinary mourners and statesmen alike have ended and the pontiff's coffin sealed.

The Trump administration plans to strictly require anyone illegally in the U.S. to register with the government and carry documentation.

Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day.

The man who would become Pope Francis always bought his shoes in the same place.

A judge nominated by President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to facilitate the return of a man deported to El Salvador despite having a pending asylum application.

Russia’s illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless.

A deadly attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir has again moved India and Pakistan closer to war.

Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli strikes have killed at least 50 people, many of them women and children.

A spaceship carrying three astronauts has docked with China's space station in the latest crew rotation.

The Justice Department has charged an alleged high-ranking member of Tren de Aragua in Colombia with terrorism offenses.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran must give up all nuclear enrichment if it wants to make a deal during talks with the Trump administration and head off the threat of armed conflict.

Two Belgian teenagers who were found with thousands of ants valued at $9,200 and allegedly destined for European and Asian markets will be sentenced in two weeks.

Jordan has announced a sweeping ban on the Muslim Brotherhood that could include shutting down the country’s largest opposition party, after accusing the Islamist group of planning attacks.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has shaken Istanbul and other areas in Turkey.

At least 26 people were killed and more than a dozen injured after gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Thousands of people have begun filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis at the start of three days of public viewing ahead of his funeral.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a missile toward northern Israel, the first-such attack by the group to reach the area as a monthlong intense U.S. airstrike campaign continues to target them.

A lawyer says an Ivory Coast court has ruled that former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam is not eligible to run for president because of his dual Ivorian-French nationality.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has unveiled a massive overhaul of the State Department.

A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices has unanimously accepted charges against six more key allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro over allegedly attempting a coup to keep him in office after his 2022 election defeat.

Greece’s prime minister has announced 1 billion euros in financial benefits for lower-income households and the country’s public investment program.