Colin Dwyer

Nearly a week after the walkout began, teachers said they would accept a budget giving them a pay bump. But, with the budget still not signed, organizers have vowed to stay out of school another day.

Wednesday began with Nikol Pashinyan's supporters clogging roadways and plazas across the country, irate that his bid for premier failed. By day's end, though, a second bid looked on track to succeed.

The cargo plane, which is attached to the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, crashed on a roadway Wednesday shortly after taking off from the airport in Savannah. Authorities say nine people were aboard.

The blasts on Tuesday targeted worshippers at a mosque in the town of Mubi. No group has claimed responsibility, but the attack reportedly bears the hallmarks of Boko Haram militants.

Despite being the only candidate to replace the recently ousted prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan failed to obtain a majority vote in parliament. Now, he's calling for a "struggle of non-violence."

The Swedish Academy was already reeling from sexual assault allegations against a man close to the group, which has been weighing whether to postpone this year's prize. Now, new claims have surfaced.

Rodrigo Koxa tackled the goliath last November, but it wasn't until Saturday, upon winning biggest wave of the year, that his record was confirmed. Check out the ride and other Big Wave Award winners.

James H. Cone, who was considered the founder of Black Liberation Theology, has died at the age of 79. For nearly five decades, the reverend wrote and taught the gospel from the African-American perspective.

More than 40 Palestinians are dead after weeks of protests on the Gaza-Israel border, where Israeli troops have sometimes used live fire — including on Friday, when some protesters rushed a fence.

Marcio Cabral's The Night Raider won him honors as a 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year — but judges disqualified the photo Friday, saying the raider in question, an anteater, was really stuffed.

Kuwaitis did not appreciate the videos released online last week which purport to show Philippine Embassy staff "rescuing" Filipino domestic workers. Now, the countries are publicly trading barbs.

Scores of schools have closed in the two states as educators demand pay bumps and boosted budgets. In Arizona, which has seen a massive walkout, tens of thousands are marching through Phoenix.

King Mswati III said the name change is intended to shed vestiges of the country's colonial past. In the Swazi language, eSwatini means "place of the Swazi."

Authorities said the disgraced cyclist had defrauded his sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service, out of millions. He faced $100 million in possible penalties — but this settlement averts his looming trial.

When Raúl Castro passed Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez the job, the Communist Party stalwart became Cuba's first president not named Castro in decades. But don't expect radical reforms.

Something was rotten in Parrish, Ala. Namely, some 100 million pounds of waste in a stationary train, waiting more than two months for disposal. But now, it appears the tiny town's nightmare is over.

Raul Castro, who has led Cuba since his brother Fidel retired in 2008, will leave the presidency Thursday. And he has a successor in mind: Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, who is 30 years his junior.

The votes will be held June 24, likely under a state of emergency and more than a year earlier than expected. The move hastens the implementation of reforms granting the presidency broad new powers.

The Federal Communications Commission says the company had inserted such sounds in "hundreds of millions of calls." But not every FCC commissioner felt the settlement with T-Mobile was penalty enough.

The parliament overwhelmingly elected Serzh Sargsyan prime minister Tuesday. But demonstrators are rejecting the move as a de facto third term for a man who has already governed for a decade.