The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some developers are getting closer

Hundreds of youths in the Kenyan town of Nanyuki have demonstrated against an Ebola quarantine center at Laikipia Air Base

Ann Patchett opened Parnassus Books in 2011 when physical bookstores seemed endangered

Ann Patchett often finds ways to help others, whether it's promoting a fellow author's book or supporting emerging writers

A Philippine senator has been arrested after a court ordered his arrest on a nonbailable charge of plunder

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not attend an annual parade honoring Israel, breaking with a decades-long political custom because of his support of Palestinian rights

Venezuela's ruling party is facing internal divisions after 27 years of unity

Israeli troops have captured a strategic mountain topped with a Crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon in their deepest incursion into the country in more than a quarter-century

Traveling to Spain in June and France in September, Pope Leo XIV will find traditionally Catholic but now staunchly secular countries with an abundance of historic churches but few people in the pews