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Kevin Barber was just 15 years old when he had an idea that would change downtown San Diego.

Opposition candidates in Ivory Coast's election face charges of terrorism and up to life in prison for denouncing the vote and creating a rival government after President Alassane Ouattara's victory, a public prosecutor said on Friday.

While the imminent opening of Berlin's long-delayed Brandenburg Airport will cause many in the city to breathe a sigh of relief, it also means the sad end of an era.

After years of delays caused by red tape, cutbacks and opposition from religious and political factions, the first government-funded mosque in Athens since 1833 opened its doors to worshipers on Friday.

Dozens of people are dead and hundreds have been evacuated after Tropical Depression Eta slammed into Central America, flooding homes and bringing devastating landslides.

Richard Branson, the thrill-seeking British billionaire, founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 on the promise that a privately developed spacecraft would make it possible for hundreds of people to become astronauts, no NASA training required. And if a 2,500-mile-per-hour ride to the edge of space sounded off-putting, Branson also pledged to take the journey himself before letting paying customers on board.

TikTok censored videos related to incidents in Xinjiang to avoid promoting conflict, an executive at the short-form video app told UK lawmakers this week.

Several leading grocery chains are reimposing limits on key items such as toilet paper, paper towels and disinfecting wipes, hoping to keep their shelves stocked and prevent shoppers from hoarding as they did when the pandemic began in the spring.

Having scraped money together following medical studies abroad, Somali doctor Abdullahi Sheikdon Dini opened Mogadishu's first advanced diagnostic laboratory in January.

Elon Musk has already gotten people to buy flamethrowers, short shorts and surfboards. Now he's throwing in some tequila, too.

The Italian regions worst-hit by the second coronavirus wave entered a new lockdown Friday after the country tallied its highest daily number of both infections and deaths the previous day.

One of India's most well-known and controversial news anchors has been arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of an architect, local police said, in a case that reflects the country's increasingly fraught and politicized media environment.

Just two days after a political win in its home state of California, Uber's third quarter earnings report shows the ongoing negative impact of the pandemic on its business. But the company is still setting its sights on profitability sometime in 2021.

Parts of Central America could still see life-threatening flash flooding as Tropical Depression Eta pummels the region with rain before heading toward the US coast.

When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia received the Nobel Peace Prize last year, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is being asked to pull his own country back from the brink of civil war.

The United Nations and the European Union have criticized the demolition by the Israeli military of a large portion of a Palestinian community in the West Bank that left 73 people, including 41 children, homeless.

"I used to take potatoes for granted," reads the first line of the book, "Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent."

Bitcoin soared more than 7% Thursday and was trading above $15,000 — its highest level in nearly three years — as mainstream interest in the cryptocurrency builds and the US dollar weakens.

Denmark, the world's largest producer of mink furs, plans to cull all mink in the country to contain a mutated form of novel coronavirus.

It's been seven years since Microsoft released the Xbox One, the last major generational upgrade to its Xbox series. Now, over a year after the company first announced its next-generation console was coming, it's finally here.