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President Donald Trump on Wednesday is taking his maiden voyage on a new Air Force One - a retrofitted Boeing 747 worth $400 million gifted by Qatar that embeds his personality more deeply into the institution of the American presidency.

Three pre-dawn firebomb attacks targeting the residences of members of Greece's governing conservative New Democracy party have left five people hospitalized, with one in critical condition, authorities said Wednesday.

The lines are growing at Russian gas stations -- and so is the frustration and uncertainty as several months of Ukrainian attacks have set oil refineries ablaze and choked supplies for motorists across the vast country.

Tourists from Chattanooga check into beach resorts in Cancun. Canadian auto parts feed factories in the American Midwest - and vice versa. Happy hour revelers raise glasses of Mexican tequila and mezcal at bars in Seattle.

The Marine Corps is creating a career field focusing on battlefield reconnaissance intended to give commanders accurate information about the enemy.

Attempts to settle the Iran war are "moving along well" despite a recent volley of tit-for-tat airstrikes in the middle of negotiations, President Trump said Wednesday.

Mourners gathered Wednesday in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore to bury 14 schoolchildren who were killed when the roof of a tutoring center collapsed on Tuesday.

British police officers who handcuffed and arrested an 18-year-old stabbing victim as he lay dying are being investigated for potential gross misconduct, the Independent Office for Police Conduct said Wednesday.

A China-based American tycoon is funding a Beijing-backed influence campaign in the U.S. to block construction of large computer data centers, according to a new think tank report.

President Trump's envoys met with the prime minister of Qatar on Tuesday but U.S. and Iranian delegations kept their distance from each other in Doha as the countries tried to negotiate an end to their four-month-old war.