War in Ukraine adds to food price hikes, hunger in Africa

Families across Africa are paying about 45% more for wheat flour as Russia's war in Ukraine blocks exports from the Black Sea.

Russians, Ukrainians fight block by block in eastern city

The Russian military's focus on Sievierodonetsk has already left the city 'completely ruined,' Mayor Oleksandr Striuk said.

Man in wig throws cake at glass protecting Mona Lisa

A man seemingly disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum and shouted at people to 'Think of the Earth.'

Plane wreckage found in Nepal mountains; 21 bodies recovered

Rescuers searching a mountainside in Nepal have recovered the bodies of 21 of the 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed a day earlier

Pacific season’s 1st hurricane makes landfall in Mexico

The strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in May in the eastern Pacific has swept ashore on a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns in southern Mexico.

Biden sees chance of ‘rational’ Republican approach on guns

There may some bipartisan support to tighten restrictions on the kind of high-powered weapons used by the gunman in the Texas school shooting, he says.

After Texas shooting, schools around U.S. boost security

Coal ash workers dying as lawsuit over illnesses drags on

Workers who cleaned up the 2008 Kingston, Tennessee, coal ash spill spent years working in conditions that they believe made them sick

EU leaders, divided over Russia oil embargo, seek a solution

The EU gets about 40 percent of its natural gas and 25 percent of its oil from Russia.

U.S. gasoline prices surge to fresh record in another blow to drivers

Average retail prices in the U.S. reached $4.619 per gallon as of Monday.