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FILE - This undated photograph released by the United Arab Emirates' state-run WAM news agency shows the under-construction Barakah nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi's Western desert. (Arun Girija/Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation/WAM via AP, File)

Drone strike sparks fire on the edge of the UAE's nuclear power plant in latest blow to Iran truce

6:34 AM on Sunday, May 17

A drone strike has targeted the United Arab Emirates’ sole nuclear power plant, sparking a fire on its perimeter

A rare, long-lost copy of Caedmon's Hymn — the first poem ever written down in Old English — is visible in the five lines above the final line of the left page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, at Rome's National Library, Thursday, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)null

Researchers stunned by a forgotten medieval book in Rome hiding the oldest English poem

1:29 AM on Sunday, May 17

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library

Pope Leo XIV presides over the funeral of late Cardinal Emil Paul Tscherrig in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, Friday, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope to visit France in September with a stop at UNESCO

7:09 AM on Saturday, May 16

Pope Leo XIV is adding a trip to France to his busy 2026 travel schedule

Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope creates artificial intelligence study group as Vatican prepares to release his first encyclical

12:01 AM on Saturday, May 16

Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence in a sign of his ongoing concern about the technology

A record-breaking race and Catholic blessing highlight the role of faith for Kenyan runners

7:53 PM on Friday, May 15

A Catholic church in Eldoret, an epicenter of global long-distance running in the north Rift Valley region of Kenya, is in the spotlight after a runner prayed there and later won the London Marathon

FILE- Diane Christie holds a recovered dog tag belonging to her uncle, World War II U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Thomas Kelly, Friday, May 23, 2025, in San Leandro, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Created as IDs, dog tags became a crucial link between military families and fallen troops

2:24 PM on Friday, May 15

Military identification tags — popularly known as dog tags — became standard issue for U.S. troops at the request of an Army chaplain concerned about identifying fallen soldiers at the beginning of the 20th century

This photo from a criminal complaint unsealed Friday, May 15, 2026 by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, shows Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, right, with Qasem Soleimani, former commander of the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, featured on al-Saadi’s Snapchat account according to a federal criminal complaint. (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York via AP)

Iraqi man accused of NYC synagogue plot after attacks in Europe and Canada in response to Iran war

1:27 PM on Friday, May 15

An Iraqi national accused of plotting at least 18 terror attacks in Europe in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel's war in Iran has been arrested and charged with supporting Iran-backed terrorist organizations

In this photo released by Belarusian presidential press service, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, right, and U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham shake hands during their meeting in Minsk, Belarus, Friday, May 15, 2026. (Belarusian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Belarus authoritarian leader welcomes US evangelist Franklin Graham to hold massive gathering

11:07 AM on Friday, May 15

Belarus’ authoritarian leader has greeted U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham, who arrived in the tightly controlled country to hold the largest evangelical gathering in its history

Protesters march during a "Drive the Nazis out of Melbourne" protest in Melbourne, Sept. 23, 2023. (James Ross/AAP Image via AP)

Australia bans a neo-Nazi network under new law that criminalizes hate groups

3:14 AM on Friday, May 15

Australia says a neo-Nazi network will be the second organization being banned under its new law criminalizing hate groups and support for them

U.S.-born Buddhist lama Jalue Dorje walks out of a prayer hall during a series of rituals and prayers bestowed by the spiritual leader of Shechen Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Takeaways from AP's report on Jalue Dorje, the US-born teenage Buddhist lama

12:22 AM on Friday, May 15

A teenage Buddhist lama recently blessed thousands of people at a monastery in the Himalayan foothills

Israeli youth celebrate in Damascus Gate ahead of a march marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, in Jerusalem's Old City, Thursday, May 14, 2026.(AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ultranationalist Jews chant racist slogans during annual march into Jerusalem's Old City

9:46 AM on Thursday, May 14

Large crowds of ultranationalist Jews are marching through Jerusalem's Old City, many of them chanting incendiary slogans like "death to Arabs."

Pope Leo XIV visits the Città Universitaria (University City) at Sapienza University of Rome to meet with faculty and students at the institution's primary campus, one of the world's oldest and largest universities, Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope decries the rise of AI-directed warfare, saying it leads to a spiral of annihilation

8:32 AM on Thursday, May 14

Pope Leo XIV has denounced investments in AI and high-tech weaponry, warning they lead to a “spiral of annihilation.”

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump administration will join a prayer gathering criticized for promoting Christian nationalism

8:20 AM on Thursday, May 14

President Donald Trump and several top administration officials are joining with a cast of mostly conservative Christian clergy this Sunday for a prayer gathering

FILE - An FBI seal is displayed on a podium before a news conference at the field office in Portland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Neo-Nazi leader gets 15 years for recruiting violent attacks, including a Santa poison plot

7:40 AM on Thursday, May 14

The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced in New York to 15 years in prison for trying to recruit others to commit violent acts against Jews and racial minorities

In this photo provided by Kory Lamberts, Black divers with the Underwater Adventure Seekers visit the wreck site of the Henrietta Marie, a British slave ship which sank in 1700 in the waters off the coast of Key West, Fla., Friday, May 8, 2026. (Kory Lamberts/Aquatic Futures Foundation via AP)

Underwater memorial to wrecked slave ship draws pilgrims seeking to connect with their roots

7:01 AM on Thursday, May 14

A group of Black divers recently visited the site where the British slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 326 years ago

Two men sit in a small boat on the water as a mix of bulk carriers, cargo ships, and service vessels line the horizon in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, April 27, 2026.(Razieh Poudat/ISNA via AP)

Tensions flare near Strait of Hormuz as a ship is seized and another is sunk

3:33 AM on Thursday, May 14

Tensions are escalating again near the Strait of Hormuz after a ship anchored off the United Arab Emirates was seized and taken toward Iran and another was attacked and sank near the coast of Oman

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