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Pop star turned MP Bobi Wine is making plans for a bigger political stage in the country and says he has launched a grassroots movement for young people aimed at challenging the country's longtime leader President Yoweri Museveni.

Qatar produced the most famous moment in its sporting history Friday after defeating Japan 3-1 in the final of the Asian Cup.

Three people were arrested on charges of running "birth tourism" companies that catered to Chinese clients in Southern California Thursday. It is the first time that criminal charges have been filed in a US federal court over the practice, according to Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the US Attorney's Office, Central District of California.

The crisis in Venezuela appears to be shaping up like a Cold War-style confrontation: The Kremlin is throwing its support behind embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, while Washington backs Juan Guaido, the self-proclaimed interim president.

When Europeans arrived in the Americas, they caused so much death and disease that it changed the global climate, a new study finds.

Kim Bok-dong was brought to the Japanese Embassy in Seoul one last time Friday.

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam confirmed Friday he was in a racist yearbook photo showing one person dressed in blackface and another in the KKK's signature white hood and robes, and apologized for "the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now."

The interviewer looked at the 23-year-old woman sitting in front of him. He wasn't impressed -- but his reaction had nothing to do with her resumé.

A new report has revealed the world's heaviest internet users: the Philippines, where people spent an average of 10 hours and two minutes a day online in 2018.

Fears of an incoming natural disaster in Japan are swirling online after sightings of a deep-water fish believed to be a harbinger of earthquakes and tsunamis.

Children playing in a middle school gym in Indonesia; a man getting ready for bed in a Moscow apartment; an Australian family coming and going from their garage; and a woman feeding her cat in Japan.

A company that counts former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince among its investors said it plans to build a "training center" in China's far western region of Xinjiang, an area where the Chinese government is accused of carrying out a wide-ranging security clampdown targeting Muslim minority groups.

In August 2015, an electrical engineering student in Chicago sent an email to a Chinese national titled "Midterm test questions."

A meteorite possibly struck western Cuba on Friday, according to the National Weather Service in Key West, Florida.

Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and other senior executives could lose out on millions of dollars in compensation depending on the outcome of an investigation into the bank's role in a multi-billion dollar Malaysian corruption scandal.

Tobacco companies are advertising products around educational institutions and intentionally targeting children in India, a recent study found.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday that the US is suspending the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a key pact with Russia that has been a centerpiece of European security since the Cold War.

Flick through a Hungarian history book for high school students, and you're left in no doubt about the government's view on migrants.

Foxconn says it is returning to its original plan to make flat screen panels at a new plant in Wisconsin following an appeal from President Donald Trump.

Cory Booker and Kamala Harris kicked off their 2020 campaigns like no other black presidential candidates ever have, including the only one who has won. Perhaps that's a privilege only they have -- afforded only after eight years of the first black US president.

The relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is characterized by considerable mistrust and disinterest.

Lindsey Vonn has finally had to admit defeat.

A mother-of-three has become the first person to be found guilty of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK, in a landmark verdict given at the Old Bailey in London on Friday.

An arctic blast that left 16 people dead in the Midwest will ease over the weekend, replaced by erratic temperatures that will melt away snow and ice, and cause more problems.

The migrant rescue organization Sea-Watch has accused Italian authorities of inventing irregularities to block its ship from leaving the port of Catania, delaying its return to patrolling the Mediterranean Sea.

Oscars season is fast approaching, but this possible bid for Best Actor is unlikely to trouble the Academy.

President Donald Trump's decision to begin the process of withdrawing the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty will end an arms control agreement with Russia that has been a centerpiece of European security since the Cold War.

Vice Media announced significant cutbacks to its staff on Friday, adding more job losses to an already beleaguered industry.

It was a dead heat with her nearest rival, but Mikaela Shiffrin continued her assault on the record books by joining Swiss great Vreni Schneider in third on the all-time list of women's World Cup winners.

Senate investigators have obtained new information showing Donald Trump Jr.'s mysterious phone calls ahead of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting were not with his father, three sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN.

For the past 467 days, Zei Uwadia has been hospitalized on life support -- but that hasn't kept the quiet-natured teenager from walking, eating her favorite foods or even doing planks as exercise.

British comedian and actor Jeremy Hardy has died of cancer at the age of 57, his publicist said on Friday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces that the US will suspend participation in an arms control treaty with Russia.

A panicked leopard attacked five people Thursday as it went on a rampage through a village in the northern Indian state of Punjab.

The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Ghana following the government's refusal to accept Ghanaian nationals deported from the US back into the country.

Sen. Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who rose to prominence as Newark's charismatic and ambitious mayor, announced Friday that he is running for president.

The European Union plans to allow UK citizens visa-free travel after Brexit if they are on a short trip.

Sojourner Truth, a preacher, abolitionist and women's rights activist, became one of the most significant figures in African-American history after traveling extensively across the US to speak about the evils of the slave trade and social injustices.

Most of us will never set foot on a swanky superyacht. We'd be lucky to even catch a glimpse of one of these streamlined, gleaming vessels docked in Monaco or Miami.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to announce Friday that the US will suspend participation in an arms control treaty with Russia that has been a centerpiece of European security since the Cold War, according to two US officials and multiple diplomatic sources familiar with the matter.

US singer Mariah Carey performed in concert in Saudi Arabia Thursday night, despite calls from activists to cancel the show over allegations of human rights abuse.

Authorities in Hong Kong seized $8 million worth of smuggled endangered species parts in one of the biggest busts the city has ever recorded.

The women range in age from the mid-60s to the early 80s. They love to dance and sing. And twice a week, they come to a gym in Cosmo City, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, to box. They are affectionately known as South Africa's "boxing grannies," and these women are juking and jabbing their way to healthier lives.

"They broke us, I swear to God. [ISIS] broke us," the tall man said. He was thin, in his mid-thirties, his face drawn with exhaustion, his eyes hollow. He had just walked with his extended family out of the town of Marashida, one of the last strongholds of ISIS in Eastern Syria.

The 2019 Longines Global Champions Tour and Global Champions League will feature exciting new venues in New York, Montreal and Stockholm in a record 20-city circuit this year.

Two 18-year-olds were publicly flogged Thursday in the conservative Indonesian state of Aceh for displaying affection.

A former South Korean governor and one-time presidential contender has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for rape, five months after he was controversially acquitted for the same crime.

A US judge has ruled that the Assad regime was responsible for the deliberate and unlawful killing of journalist Marie Colvin in 2012 and ordered it to pay more than $300 million in damages to her family.

A Detroit police officer -- who referenced "black girl magic" as he filmed a woman he pulled over walk home in the cold -- has been demoted, the police chief said in a news conference Thursday.