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Violence flares after Hong Kong protesters defy police ban

By Eileen Ng, Phoebe Lai, Associated Press

Police fired chemical-laced blue water and tear gas at protesters who lobbed Molotov cocktails outside the Hong Kong government office complex Sunday, as violence flared anew after thousands of pro-democracy supporters marched through downtown in defiance of a police ban.

How nine days underwater helps scientists understand what life on a Moon base will be like

By Csilla Ari D'Agostino, The Conversation

How is NASA preparing astronauts for high-stress living on the moon? Turns out the answer is by living in undersea bases just off the coast of Florida in a lab known as Aquarius Reef Base.

Embattled Israeli PM fights for survival in do-over election

By Josef Federman, Associated Press

A visibly frantic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the fight of his political life as the country heads to national elections for the second time this year.

Iran dismisses US allegation it was behind Saudi oil attacks

By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press

Iran denied on Sunday it was involved in Yemen rebel drone attacks the previous day that hit the world’s biggest oil processing facility and an oil field in Saudi Arabia, just hours after America’s top diplomat alleged that Tehran was…

AP Fact Check: Trump, Dems and their tale of 2 countries

By Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen, Associated Press

The country described by the Democrats running for president is mired in child poverty, riven with economic unfairness and broken in its approach to health care, crime and guns. The country presented by President Donald Trump is roaring and ascendant.

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe honored at state funeral, burial delayed

By Andrew Meldrum, Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press

HARARE, Zimbabwe — African heads of state joined thousands of Zimbabweans at a state funeral Saturday for Zimbabwe’s founding president, Robert Mugabe , whose burial has been delayed for at least a month until a special mausoleum can be built for…

Climate change protests hit Frankfurt as auto show opens

By Associated Press

Thousands of people are demonstrating in Frankfurt to demand more action against climate change as the German city's auto show opens to the public, with some cycling into the city along highways that were temporarily closed for the occasion.

Death toll rises to 6 in torrential rains in southeast Spain

By Joseph Wilson, Associated Press

Record rainfall claimed two more lives in southeastern Spain as it caused widespread flooding, raising the overall death toll to six from the storms, authorities said Saturday.

Still reeling from Dorian, Bahamas faces tropical storm

By Dánica Coto, Associated Press

Officials temporarily suspended aid efforts and closed a couple of small airports in the Bahamas on Saturday as Tropical Storm Humberto threatened to lash the archipelago’s northwest region that was already hit by Hurricane Dorian two weeks ago.

White House says bin Laden son killed in U.S. operation

By Zeke Miller, Associated Press

The White House says Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, has been killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.