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Floral tributes outside Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Markham)

Australian state plans tougher laws against displaying extremist flags after Bondi shooting

10:03 AM on Saturday, December 20

The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing a ban on public displays of Islamic State group flags and extremist symbols

FILE - Christmas trees and Santa Clauses decorate the entrance to the beach in Haffkrug, northern Germany, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. (Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Everything you need to know about Christmas, and how it has evolved into a global holiday

7:41 AM on Saturday, December 20

Originally a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas has evolved into a global cultural event

Pope Leo XIV greets faithful as he arrives in St. Peter's Square on the occasion of the last Jubilee audience, at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo summons world's cardinals for a key assembly to help him govern the church

7:25 AM on Saturday, December 20

Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for meetings to help him govern the church, marking the unofficial start of his pontificate

People pose for a picture in Manger Square in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Christmas spirit returns to Bethlehem after ceasefire in Gaza

12:07 AM on Saturday, December 20

At midnight on Christmas Eve, the hymn “The Night of Christmas” will ring out in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was born

Sonam Tashi shouts slogans during a demonstration to commemorate the anniversary of the 1959 uprising in Tibet against Chinese rule, in New Delhi, India, March, 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price

12:01 AM on Saturday, December 20

Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya

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

Church court acquits a bishop from a small Anglican denomination embroiled in scandal

3:36 PM on Friday, December 19

A church court in the Anglican Church in North America has acquitted a bishop of charges of failing to carry out his duties

FILE - Rev. Manuel Rodriguez celebrates Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in the Queens borough of New York, on Sunday, May 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)

Pope names pro-immigrant pastor bishop of Florida diocese where Trump's Mar-a-Lago is located

2:53 PM on Friday, December 19

Pope Leo XIV has named the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez as bishop of Palm Beach, Florida

A Palestinian looks over an area of buildings destroyed during Israeli air and ground operations at sunset in northern Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Holy Land's top Catholic leader visits Gaza parish, greeted by children in Santa hats and keffiyeh

1:07 PM on Friday, December 19

The top Catholic leader in the Holy Land has visited the Gaza Strip’s only Catholic church, sharing a message of Christmas hope and support as conditions in the war-torn territory slowly improve while the Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds into its third month

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

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

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

This photo provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shows a large rock bearing petroglyphs created by the ancestors of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, Dec 8, 2025, in Tremonton, Utah. (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints via AP)

Church repatriates sacred rock covered with petroglyphs after 14-year effort

11:49 PM on Thursday, December 18

A rock covered with petroglyphs created centuries ago by the ancestors of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is back home in the mountains of Utah

FILE - New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani listens as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Mamdani appointee resigns after her decade-old antisemitic social media posts resurface

6:48 PM on Thursday, December 18

One of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s appointees has resigned over social media posts she made more than a decade ago that featured antisemitic tropes

How kosher is beer? As with other products, it's increasingly complicated.

3:27 PM on Thursday, December 18

In November, three of America’s largest kosher certifying organizations came together to release new guidance regarding the status of beer, which has long been considered kosher by default

Director Rob Reiner promotes his latest film "The Story of Us," a romantic comedy about marriage on the rocks in San Francisco, Oct. 1, 1999, in San Francisco. (Fred Larson/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

In recorded message, Rob Reiner urged resiliency for Holocaust survivors at Hanukkah event

3:11 PM on Thursday, December 18

Hollywood icon Rob Reiner urged Holocaust survivors to show resilience in a video message recorded weeks before he was killed

Family carry the coffin following a service for Bondi Beach mass shooting victim 10-year-old Matilda, whose last name is being withheld at the request of her family, in Sydney, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Markham)

Mourners grieve 10-year-old killed in Bondi mass shooting as Australian leader pledges new hate laws

10:55 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Hundreds of mourners have gathered in Sydney for the funeral of a 10-year-old girl killed in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration

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