Beijing wants women to have more babies. So why isn't it loosening rules on egg freezing?

Eva Cai knows she wants a child. She's just not sure if she wants a husband.


Opinion: What's causing the crisis on the Belarus-Lithuania border?

In recent years, Europe's migration troubles have entailed people arriving from the south and east, fleeing conflict and economic deprivation over land routes and in boats often unfit for Mediterranean waters.


Greece finishes wall on border with Turkey, amid fears of Afghan migrant crisis

Greece has finished building a 40-kilometer (25-mile) wall along its border with Turkey, amid concerns in parts of Europe that the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan could cause an influx of people seeking asylum.


Cristiano Ronaldo has 'told me that he's staying,' says Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri

Cristiano Ronaldo has "never wanted to leave Juventus," according to the club's coach Massimiliano Allegri.


How the Delta variant is upending restaurants

For a moment in late spring and early summer, it seemed that restaurant operators were starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.


Unruly air passengers hit with $500,000 in new fines

While our passports haven't been getting many stamps since March 2020, at least our vocabularies are expanding. Variants, mandates, quarantines and requirements -- who knew 2021 would be so polysyllabic?


Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled with only the clothes on his back, senior adviser says

A former senior official of Afghanistan's ousted President Ashraf Ghani has detailed a vivid picture of the last weeks of Ghani's government, including how the President and his advisers were stunned by the speed of the Taliban's advance on the capital of Kabul.


The Taliban will face a bleak economy, former Afghan central banker predicts

Soaring food prices. Limited cash. And a surge of refugees. The economic future of Afghanistan under Taliban rule looks bleak, according to the country's former central banker.


Hurricane Grace poised to make landfall for second time in Mexico

Grace strengthened once again into a hurricane over water Friday morning and is poised to make its second Mexico landfall later in the day, bringing heavy rain likely to cause flooding through the weekend.


GM recalling another 70,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric cars

General Motors is recalling another 73,000 Bolt EV and EUV electric vehicles in the United States and Canada for a problem that could cause the vehicles to catch fire.