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Hurricane Otto churned toward the sparsely-populated Caribbean coast border of Nicaragua and Costa Rica early Thursday as an unusually strong late-season storm.

At least 22 people have been killed and an unknown number of others are reportedly trapped in a scaffolding collapse Thursday morning at a construction site in eastern China, authorities say.

The scale of India's cash economy can be seen in the Azadpur Mandi wholesale fruit and vegetable market.

Tokyo residents woke up Thursday to the first November snowfall in more than 50 years.

Amnesty International says Nigeria's military has killed at least 150 peaceful protesters in a "chilling campaign" to repress renewed demands to create a breakaway state of Biafra in the southeast.

Australia announced that it will provide an additional 220 million Australian dollars ($160 million) in humanitarian aid for the Syrian crisis during the Jordanian king's first visit to Australia.

Mexican citizen Juan Pedro Franco weighs 590 kilograms (about 1,300 pounds) and will require medical treatment lasting more than a year to get down to an ideal weight of between 80-90 kg, Dr. Jose Antonio Castañeda said Wednesday.

A U.S. citizen was being held Wednesday in Honolulu for extradition to Tonga, where he's accused of beating his wife to death, escaping police and sailing some 300 miles to American Samoa.

The Latest on tropical weather in the Caribbean (all times local): 7 p.m.

Donald Trump Jr., the older son of the U.S. president-elect, in October participated in a private meeting in Paris at which the possibility of supporting Russian efforts to halt the war in Syria was discussed, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

A strong earthquake has shaken the same area in Japan hit by a magnitude-7.4 earthquake two days ago.

Seven bodies were found in three clandestine graves in Zitlala, a city in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, officials said Wednesday.

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Betsy DeVos to be his education secretary, the first woman to be appointed to his cabinet and a defender of allowing parents to use public funds to send their children to private or religious schools.

Former French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who presided over key climate talks in Paris last year, says he doesn't know what to make of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's contradictory statements on global warming.

A civilian self-defense commander says a suicide bomber has exploded outside a bus station in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing himself and one other person.

At least eight suspected drug traffickers were arrested Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro's Cidade de Deus favela, or shantytown, as part of an operation that deployed about 400 Brazilian police officers in the slum following six days of shootouts.

Colombian actress Amparo Grisales on Wednesday here presented her new book entitled "Mi sabia naturaleza," a guide for leading a healthy life in which she talks about the uses and properties of plants and herbs she has learned about and used.

The USS Zumwalt – at a cost of $4.4 billion, the most expensive destroyer in the American fleet – experienced a loss of propulsion Monday as it transited the canal and had to be towed to a repair facility.

Officials in the Mexican resort of Cancun and nearby cities have rounded up scores of Uber cars and taken them to impound lots until drivers pay fines of about $2,800 apiece.

16-year-old Damien Ramirez died, police said, after being shot multiple times in Miami. Another man in his late 50s was shot in the arm, but he is expected to be OK.