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It's called "Fridays for Future". Thousands of students around the world are leaving their classrooms in hopes of bringing attention to climate change.

New Zealand police say a 50th victim of the mosque attacks in Christchurch has died.

A stunning video has surfaced showing a large blue shark appearing to give a diver a kiss.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The trial of Cardinal George Pell was largely a case of his word against that of his sole accuser, a 34-year-old man who alleged that as a 13-year-old choirboy he and a friend were abused in one of Australia's grandest cathedrals more than 20 years ago as hundreds of worshippers were filing away after Mass.

For decades, there were tales from fishermen and tourists, even lots of photos, of a mysterious killer whale that just didn't look like all the others, but scientists had never seen one.

Aviation authorities in China, Indonesia and Ethiopia ordered airlines on Monday to ground their Boeing 737 Max 8 planes after one of the aircraft crashed in Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on board.  

U.S. citizens heading to Mexico for spring break are being urged to take extra safety precautions.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - The Latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local): 2:25 p.m. The Trump administration is granting U.S. companies more time to comply with sanctions barring transactions with Venezuela's state-run oil company. The Treasury Department says that firms have until May 10 to wind down and close their business with PDVSA.

A police officer in Chile climbed a fence to help a distressed dog tangled in cloth in the courtyard of a residence in San Felipe, Chile, on March 3, according to local reports.

A dramatic video shows a teen falling from a 17th-floor balcony in Singapore on March 1 and landing on an air pack that rescuers had placed below.

FOX NEWS - A glamorous travel blogging couple have been slammed for dangling precariously out of a moving train in Sri Lanka for an Instagram photo.

Due to the deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef in recent years, Australia has passed strict legislation to protect it from further damage. However, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) has given North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation Ltd (NQBP) the go ahead to dump more than one million tons of sludge in the reef, according to the Guardian.

Vladimir Putin has warned that he's ready for another Cuban Missile Crisis if America should invite it, as tensions between the U.S. and Russia continue to escalate.

CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) - Venezuelan migrants on Sunday helped clean debris from a bridge where troops loyal to President Nicolas Maduro a day earlier fired tear gas on activists trying to deliver humanitarian aid in violent clashes that left two people dead and some 300 injured. Colombian President Ivan Duque reinforced security around two international bridges near the city of Cucuta and...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's alliance with an ultranationalist political party has raised significant concerns among U.S. Jews, a top leader in the Jewish American community said Sunday. Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said the alliance is "very disturbing" to many American...

HAVANA (AP) - Cuban leaders are rallying citizens to the polls for a referendum on a new constitution meant to update a charter adopted decades ago when the country was a close ally of the Soviet Union. The new document maintains control by the Communist Party, but recognizes private property for the first time after years of greater opening to small-scale private enterprise.

An Israeli spacecraft rocketed toward the moon for the country's first attempted lunar landing, following a launch Thursday night by SpaceX.

LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) - The U.S. Border Patrol says its agents have detained 103 Central American migrants in Arizona just north of the border with Mexico. The agency said Tuesday it encountered the group early Monday west of the Lukeville crossing south of Tucson. It says the group was comprised of 81 Guatemalans and 22 Hondurans and included 59 minors.