Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been sworn in as Mexico’s first leftist president in seven decades, marking a turning point in one of the world’s most extreme experiments in market opening and privatization.

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Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.8 rocked buildings and shattered roads Friday morning in Anchorage, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a warning to residents in Kodiak to flee to higher ground for fear of a tsunami.

George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94.

After fleeing a wildfire that came dangerously close to his Northern California home earlier this month, Dale Word evacuated again when flash floods inundated roads and trapped motorists and residents.

Fifty-one pilot whales died Friday in a mass stranding in New Zealand, less than a week after 145 pilot whales and nine pygmy killer whales perished in two other unrelated strandings.

For the first time in more than a decade, a train has travelled from South Korea across the heavily guarded border into North Korea.

China assigns civil servants to stay in the homes of ethnic minorities in what it portrays as an effort to promote ethnic unity but what Uighurs regard as another attempt to quash their faith.

Spider milk containing four times the protein of cow’s milk is secreted by mothers, scientists in China find

A 9,000-year-old stone mask – one of only 15 in the world – has been revealed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).

Tokyo will upgrade helicopter carriers, a move critics say violates constitutional commitment to defensive role