Powerful typhoon leaves at least 4 dead in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Kammuri barreled across the Philippines with fierce winds and rain Tuesday, leaving at least four people dead, forcing h...
EU mission in Malta expresses credibility doubts
VALLETTA, Malta — The head of the European Union’s mission to Malta on Tuesday expressed doubts about the government’s credibility after meeting with ...
Polish ruling party leader Kaczynski has knee surgery
WARSAW, Poland — An official says Poland's powerful ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has successfully undergone a planned knee surgery.
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe left behind $10 million, some houses
HARARE, Zimbabwe — The wealth of Zimbabwe’s former longtime president Robert Mugabe was long a mystery. Now the first official list of assets to be ma...
Operating system -- process synchronization
Experiment 2 process synchronization 1, Purpose of the experiment: Master basic synchronization algorithms and understan...
OpenCV computer vision -- image threshold processing and adaptive threshold Otsu
Threshold processing refers to eliminating pixels in the image that are higher or lower than the threshold. Image thresh...
McManus furious he didn’t get shot at record field goal
DENVER — Brandon McManus looked up and saw the bright orange streamers atop the goal posts hugging the yellow uprights in the north end zone. Perfect,...
Malaysia’s ex-PM Najib seeks to show he’s victim of fugitive
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak sought to show he was the victim of a cunning fugitive financier as he opened his...
Amnesty: Yemen’s disabled are neglected, and suffering
CAIRO — Yemen’s civil war has exacted an enormous toll on people with disabilities, who find themselves on the margins of society and excluded from ba...
North Korea says it’s up to US to choose ‘Christmas gift’
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Tuesday repeated its assertions the Trump administration is running out of time to salvage nuclear negotiations, s...
Man rescued after 13 nights stranded in Outback; 1 missing
PERTH, Australia — A second person stranded in the punishing Australian Outback for almost two weeks has been rescued, and a search continued Tuesday ...
Video game maker to pay $10 million in gender bias case
SAN FRANCISCO — The maker of popular video game League of Legends has agreed to pay $10 million to female employees to settle a broad gender discrimin...
China’s climate paradox: A leader in coal and clean energy
WASHINGTON — As world leaders gather in Spain to discuss how to slow the warming of the planet, a spotlight falls on China — the top emitter of greenh...
Research team to take fresh look at delicate artifacts
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandals and baskets that have withstood the ravages of time will be among the perishable artifacts analyzed by a team of scientist...
Trump campaign to stop giving credentials to Bloomberg News
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s campaign said Monday it will no longer give credentials to Bloomberg News reporters to cover campaign events becau...
Mexican border town gripped by fear after gunbattle kills 22
VILLA UNION, Mexico — A small town near the U.S.-Mexico border began cleaning up Monday, gripped by fear after the killing of 22 people in a ferocious...
NBC, union investigate ‘America’s Got Talent’ racism report
LOS ANGELES — NBC and the union that represents television performers are investigating an allegation by an “America’s Got Talent” judge that she was ...
Protesters block Malta’s leader from leaving Parliament
VALLETTA, Malta — Some 4,000 angry protesters in Malta who want the prime minister to immediately step down briefly blocked him and his party’s lawmak...
Impeachment shadows Trump on trip to NATO leaders meeting
LONDON — Crying foul over timing, President Donald Trump on Monday accused Democrats of scheduling this week’s impeachment hearing to undercut him dur...
Case against Netanyahu includes billionaire witnesses
JERUSALEM — Israel’s attorney general on Monday officially submitted his indictment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, laying...
California Gov. Newsom to campaign in Iowa for Kamala Harris
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will travel to Iowa to campaign for Sen. Kamala Harris as she tries to rebound amid a critical stret...
Vigil for London stabbing victims as politicians trade blame
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn paused Monday to honor the two people killed in th...
Bullock becomes 3rd governor to drop presidential campaign
HELENA, Mont. — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock ended his Democratic presidential campaign Monday, becoming the third Western governor boasting executive e...
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The Latest: UN chief disappointed by climate action so far
MADRID — The Latest on the COP25 climate summit in Madrid (all times local):
Defense budgets set to dominate yet another NATO summit
BRUSSELS — Despite pleas to set aside bickering over military spending so the issue doesn’t dominate a third NATO summit in a row, the United States i...
NATO under friendly fire as leaders ready for London summit
BRUSSELS — NATO leaders will gather in London on Tuesday as the world’s biggest military alliance, marking its 70th birthday, battles with one of the ...
Correction: Burkina Faso-Church Attacked story
In a story Dec. 2 about an attack in Burkina Faso, The Associated Press reported erroneously that an attack on a convoy carrying employees of a mining...
UN chief urges countries not to surrender on climate fight
MADRID — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries Monday not to give up in the fight against climate change, as representatives from ne...