Bill Chappell

Armed soldiers took control of a state radio station early Monday morning and broadcast a statement saying the nation was under their control and that a new leader would be chosen.

Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun's real-time Twitter pleas for help went viral as she begged for refugee status. Thai officials have let her talk to U.N. refugee officials.

Whelan was born in Canada and has since gained citizenship in the U.S., Britain and Ireland.

In the days before Christmas, the private data of some of Germany's most powerful leaders was trickled out "in a kind of Advent calendar," a German broadcaster reports.

"Half an hour ago, we have recovered the last body. The search and rescue operation is over," Alexander Chupriyan of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said of the incident on New Year's Eve.

Investigators believe the passenger train hit an empty truck trailer that was being carried on a freight train going in the opposite direction.

"My heart skipped a beat. It brought back many memories — good and not so good": Seeing her boat Wild Eyes brought back a flood of emotions, says Abby Sunderland, who's now 25.

Russia's Federal Security Service says it arrested Paul Whelan last week. Family members say he was visiting Moscow to attend a wedding, not to steal secrets.

"Ordinary Danes on their way to work or heading home from the Christmas holidays have had their lives smashed," Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said.

Weeks ago, Turkey threatened to send its military over the border if Kurdish militants didn't leave Manbij. Now the U.S.-backed Kurds seem to be making a deal with the Syrian regime.

Utility company Con Edison says the light emanated from "a sustained electrical arc flash that was visible across a wide area." Witnesses had many other ideas.

The Avangard weapon system is built around a hypersonic glide vehicle that takes an elusive path toward its target — even as it reportedly travels at more than 20 times the speed of sound.

"Firearms-related fatalities were the leading cause of officer deaths, with 52 officers shot and killed in 2018," the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund says.

Japanese prosecutors say three top TEPCO executives didn't do enough to protect the nuclear plant, despite being told in 2002 that the Fukushima facility was vulnerable to a tsunami.

Japan is leaving the International Whaling Commission, which put a moratorium on commercial whaling in the 1980s. The country will allow commercial hunts for the first time in 30 years next July.

With striking blue eyes and white hair, Alba was rescued last year by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation — which calls her "the only albino orangutan ever recorded."

Priests who sexually abuse children are like Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ, Pope Francis told a gathering of cardinals on Friday.

President Trump declared victory over ISIS. But the international response is decidedly mixed — from worries in liberated Raqqa to applause from Russia and measured resolve in Israel.

The second-busiest airport in Britain had to cancel hundreds of flights and even had to get the military involved. Authorities say the perpetrator is still on the loose.

"A new era of American national security in space begins today," the vice president said at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.