More than 400 people have been killed from the storm and subsequent flooding across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

The casualties included many children, as a vessel carrying Nowruz holiday revelers capsized in the Tigris River. Authorities said the boat appeared not to have had life vests on board.

Studies on the genetics of human diseases have focused largely on people of European descent. Researchers say this lack of diversity is bad science and exacerbates health inequities.

Across the country, young people are proudly sharing their side hustles and main gigs, from baking wedding cakes to growing ginger to laying tile.

A decade ago, one university started putting pronouns on course rosters. Today, it’s not alone.

The protesters have been detained in the months since demonstrations against the government of President Daniel Ortega began nearly a year ago.

Millennials are drinking less, spurring beverage companies to create alternatives to traditional cocktails — using herbs, spices, citrus and veggies to craft unique flavors for nonalcoholic drinks.

Describing what he called a kidnapping, Guaidó said weapons had been planted at Roberto Marrero’s house and that he should be freed immediately.

Historic flooding in the Midwest has caused unprecedented damage and led to at least three deaths.

Tamara Lanier, the descendant of an enslaved man known as Renty, is suing Harvard for damages. She wants the university to return the photos of her ancestor.

Since Holocaust survivors are getting older and their stories are fading away, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is putting curators in regions where survivors live to preserve their memories.

Overdose deaths involving fentanyl are rising — up 113 percent on average each year from 2013 to 2016. Dealers are adding cheap fentanyl to the illicit drug supply, and some users get it accidentally.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday that the government will ban “military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles,” to avert “the kind of horror and attack that we saw on Friday.”

The move is an apparent return by the government to the practice President Trump has called “catch and release” and promised to end when he was a presidential candidate.

The president again complained about the late Arizona senator during an Ohio speech, even criticizing the McCain family for not showing gratitude to the president over the late senator’s funeral.

Two high-profile plane crashes. The grounding of its bestselling jetliner. How did Boeing get here, and how can it recover from this crisis of confidence?

In a Mississippi death penalty case, the justices were skeptical of the way the state picked and dismissed black jurors and appeared ready not to uphold the conviction.

Civil rights and faith leaders are demanding a meeting with the FBI director. The message: time to prioritize white nationalist violence.

The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday and signaled that no more rate hikes may be necessary this year amid signs of economic slowing.

The president told reporters, “Let people see” special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, as Trump again denied any collusion with Russia prior to his election in 2016.

Charities are trying to help with what a Red Cross staffer calls “the worst humanitarian crisis in Mozambique’s history.” Zimbabwe and Malawi were also struck.

Increasing the size of the Supreme Court and scrapping the Electoral College are two of the latest provocative proposals sweeping the 2020 Democratic field.

For years, AdSense contracts gave Google a wide range of control, including how its rivals’ search ads would appear — and their size, color and font, the EU says.

The prime minister visited a school that lost two current students and one former student in the Christchurch mosque shootings last week.

“There’s really no common sense attached when able-bodied people approach disabled people,” says activist Imani Barbarin, who started the hashtag.

Judges in The Hague upheld the Bosnian Serb leader’s conviction in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre that claimed the lives of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

Afghanistan ranks extremely low on the World Happiness Report, released for World Happiness Day on March 20. But that doesn’t mean it is a place devoid of happiness.

Avalanche forecasters in Colorado say it’s going to be a bad year. They’re predicting the highest danger level for snow slides since they began forecasting in 1973.

Barry Lopez’s new book is a biography and a portrait of some of the world’s most delicate places, but at heart it’s a contemplation of the belief that the way forward is compassionately, and together.

The U.K.’s National Portrait Gallery and the Sackler family — owners of the company that makes OxyContin — say they’re concerned that allegations of profiteering could overshadow the gift.

The political chaos surrounding Brexit could have been avoided had Theresa May simply followed President Trump’s advice, his son wrote in an op-ed.