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Palestinians carry the body of a person killed in an Israeli military strike as they arrive at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)

Israeli fire kills at least 5 Palestinians in Gaza, a hospital in the enclave says

5:17 PM on Friday, December 19

A local Gaza hospital says Israeli troops have fired over the ceasefire line in the northern Gaza Strip, killing at least five Palestinians, including a baby

FILE - This 1981 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows hepatitis B virus particles, indicated in orange. (Dr. Erskine Palmer/CDC via AP, File)

US awards no-bid contract to Denmark scientists studying hepatitis B vaccine in African babies

4:54 PM on Friday, December 19

The Trump administration has awarded a $1.6 million, no-bid contract a Danish university to study hepatitis B vaccinations on newborns in Africa

United National Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an event to mark the end of the U.N. political mission, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

UN's grim week: 6 peacekeepers and an interpreter killed, while 10 more staffers detained in Yemen

4:50 PM on Friday, December 19

It’s been a grim week at the end of a tough year for the United Nations: Six U.N. peacekeepers were killed in a drone attack in Sudan

Eseid Abdeen, 42, carries the body of his 29-day-old infant son, Saeed, who, according to health authorities, died due to the cold weather, as he stands outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Hypothermia claims newborn in Gaza and more babies are at risk, doctor says

1:37 PM on Friday, December 19

A doctor in Gaza says a fragile newborn boy became the second baby to die of hypothermia in recent days at Nasser Hospital

Visitors admire Rome's Trevi Fountain, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, as the city municipality announced that, starting on Feb. 1, it will impose a 2 euro fee for tourists to visit the recessed fountain edge. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Visiting the Trevi Fountain now will cost more than just a coin toss with a 2-euro tourist fee

1:36 PM on Friday, December 19

Tourists visiting the Trevi Fountain are now going to pay more than just the legendary coin toss over their shoulder

Kirill Bazhanov of Yekaterinburg's Channel 4, center, asks a question holding a sign saying he wanted to get married, during Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual news conference at Gostinny Dvor in Moscow, on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

At Putin’s annual news conference, a Russian journalist pops the question — to his girlfriend

1:27 PM on Friday, December 19

Russian President Vladimir Putin fielded many questions at his annual news conference

People walk during strike by the public transportation sector in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, after President Rodrigo Paz announced the end of fuel subsidies. (AP Photo/Freddy Barragan)

Bolivia's largest cities brought to standstill by transportation strike over fuel price hike

10:29 AM on Friday, December 19

Bolivia's largest cities La Paz and Santa Cruz have been brought to a standstill as public transportation workers strike against a 100% fuel price increase ordered by the new government

Polish President Karol Nawrocki, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend an official welcome ceremony before their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

What to know about the EU's new $106 billion loan to Ukraine

8:39 AM on Friday, December 19

European Union leaders have agreed to provide Ukraine with a massive interest-free loan to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years

Bishop Richard Moth speaks during a press conference announcing him as the new Archbishop of Westminster, replacing Cardinal Vincent Nichols as the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, in the Throne Room of Archbishop's House, Westminster, London, Friday Dec. 19, 2025. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

Pope names new archbishop of Westminster as part of generational shift in English-speaking hierarchy

7:58 AM on Friday, December 19

Pope Leo XIV has made another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy

Taiwan police cordoned off the scene after a knife attack in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

3 killed in Taiwan knife attack, with the suspect later falling to his death from a department store

7:12 AM on Friday, December 19

Taiwan's national news agency and the city government say a man with a knife and smoke grenades attacked crowds indiscriminately in Taiwan’s capital

FILE - Palestinian women struggle to receive donated food at a community kitchen in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

Spread of famine in Gaza Strip averted but Palestinians there still face starvation, experts say

7:01 AM on Friday, December 19

The world’s leading authority on food crises says the spread of famine’s been averted in the Gaza Strip

Polish President Karol Nawrocki, right and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speak, during their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Ukrainian and Polish presidents show unity against Russia, address historical tensions

6:22 AM on Friday, December 19

The Ukrainian and Polish presidents have met in Warsaw to emphasize unity against Russia and progress on historical reconciliation

A map of disruption and sabotage staged by Russia, according to Western officials. (AP Digital Embed)

Denmark blames Russia for cyberattacks on water utility that left houses without water

6:03 AM on Friday, December 19

Danish authorities say Russia carried out cyberattacks against Denmark's infrastructure and websites in 2024 and 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during his annual news conference and call-in show at Gostinny Dvor, in Moscow, on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)

Putin tells his annual news conference that the Kremlin's military goals in Ukraine will be met

4:12 AM on Friday, December 19

President Vladimir Putin has emphasized that Moscow’s troops are advancing across the battlefield in Ukraine and has voiced confidence that the Kremlin will achieve its goals militarily if Kyiv doesn't agree to Russia’s conditions in peace talks

FILE - Surfers and swimmers head out to the ocean as a tribute following Sunday's shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Markham,File)

A sunrise crowd gathers at Bondi Beach in solace and defiance after a massacre

4:08 AM on Friday, December 19

Thousands of people have returned to Australia's Bondi Beach in the first full day of opening since a mass shooting killed 15 people

FILE - Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney pumps his fist as he arrives to deliver remarks at the Liberal caucus holiday party in Ottawa, on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canada and the US to launch formal talks to review their free trade agreement in mid-January

12:37 AM on Friday, December 19

Canada and the U.S. will start formal discussions on their free trade agreement in mid-January

From left, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, European Council President Antonio Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen address a media conference at the EU Summit in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU leaders agree on 90 billion-euro loan to Ukraine after a plan to use Russian assets unravels

9:10 PM on Thursday, December 18

European Union leaders have agreed to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years

Students wave Bulgarian flag as as a swelling crowd of tens of thousands of Bulgarians filled Sofia's central square, demanding the government's resignation amid rising anger over corruption and contested economic policies, Sofia, Bulgaria, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Bulgarians protest widespread graft and call for a fair election

2:35 PM on Thursday, December 18

Tens of thousands of people have filled the streets of the capital and other major cities in Bulgaria calling for fair elections and an independent judiciary able to effectively fight widespread corruption

FILE - Wiz Khalifa, a cast member in "Spinning Gold," arrives at the premiere of the film, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Romanian court sentences US rapper Wiz Khalifa to 9 months for drug possession

1:56 PM on Thursday, December 18

A court in Romania has sentenced American rapper Wiz Khalifa to nine months in jail on drug possession charges

FILE - Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, May 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

From Pope Francis to Charlie Kirk, many deaths in 2025 had a wide impact

7:02 AM on Friday, December 5

The world lost influential people in 2025, and some of their deaths had significant impacts

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