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Germany's Christmas markets open with festive cheer and tight security 11/28/2025 12:19pm • BERLIN (AP) — Traditional Christmas markets were opening across Germany on Monday, drawing revelers to their wooden stands with mulled wine, grilled sausages, potato pancakes or caramelized apples. Security has been stepped up, with memories of two deadly attacks on Christmas markets still fresh Paris' Louvre museum to increase ticket price for visitors from outside the EU 11/28/2025 11:39am • PARIS (AP) — Paris' Louvre museum has approved a ticket hike from 22 to 32 euros ($25 to $37) for non-European visitors from January to help finance an overhaul of the building whose degradation has been exposed by the Oct. 19 crown jewels heist. The measure comes as other major cultural sites ac College football mascots just as good at keeping their identities secret as firing up a crowd 11/28/2025 11:36am • EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Ross Ramsey enjoys spending time with fellow alums at Michigan State football tailgates. These aren’t just any old former Spartans, though. They were Sparty himself – something few knew when Ramsey and his pals donned the muscular mascot suit two decades ago. “Once Death toll from floods in Thailand reaches 145 as receding water reveals widespread damage 11/28/2025 09:52am • BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from flooding in southern Thailand has reached at least 145, officials said Friday, as receding waters started to reveal devastating damage across the region. More than 1.2 million households and 3.6 million people have been affected by floods triggered by heavy rains How Russian drones targeting civilians are turning one Ukrainian city into a 'human safari' 11/28/2025 09:24am • KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — When Olena Horlova leaves home or drives through town outside the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, she fears that she's a target. She believes that Russian drones could be waiting on a rooftop, along the road or aiming for her car. To protect herself and her two daughte ‘A huge undertaking’: Behind the scenes of a Maryland holiday lights show 11/28/2025 06:56am • The holiday light show at Montgomery County’s Brookside Gardens is open for about a month and a half. But preparing for the show, which involves 1.5 million twinkling lights, is pretty much a year-round affair. Practically right after each year’s show finishes in early January, staff members Sri Lanka closes offices and schools as death toll from landslides and floods rises to 56 11/28/2025 01:17am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka closed government offices and schools Friday as the death toll from floods and landslides across the country rose to 56 while more than 600 houses were damaged, officials said. Sri Lanka began grappling with severe weather last week and the conditions worsened T Sebastian Garcia takes 1-stroke lead at the Australian PGA after completing weather-hit 1st round 11/27/2025 08:17pm • BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Sebastian Garcia completed his weather-delayed first round early Friday at Royal Queensland to finish with an 8-under 63 and a one-stroke lead at the Australian PGA Championship. The Spanish golfer had completed 15 holes at 7-under on Thursday before a mid-afternoon thun Man arrested on suspicion of involvement in attack at a Manchester synagogue that killed 2 11/27/2025 10:17am • LONDON (AP) — British police on Thursday arrested a man on suspicion of involvement in an attack outside a synagogue last month that left two worshippers dead. Greater Manchester Police said the 31-year-old was detained at Manchester Airport on suspicion of “commission, preparation and instigati Heavy rains trigger landslides and floods in Sri Lanka, leaving more than 40 dead 11/27/2025 09:42am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka stopped passenger trains and closed roads in some parts of the country where landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains have caused more than 40 deaths, officials said Thursday. The government’s disaster management center said 25 of the reported deaths occ What's open on Thanksgiving? Not much, as many stores rest -- or prepare -- ahead of Black Friday 11/27/2025 09:14am • WASHINGTON (AP) — With Thanksgiving and the formal launch of the holiday shopping season this week, Americans will again gather for Turkey Day meals before knocking off items on their Christmas gift lists. Most big U.S. retailers are closed on Thanksgiving Day. However, many will open early the f Former AP photographer's vintage images of Ireland capture a world before it disappeared 11/27/2025 08:34am • BERLIN (AP) — Rare photographs of Ireland from 1963 show a world about to disappear, a country before it took its first steps toward modernity. Black and white images captured by a young German photographer, Diether Endlicher — who later spent four decades covering the Olympics and major global Iran adds new gasoline price tier starting in December 11/27/2025 08:19am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will introduce a new gasoline price tier on Dec. 6, raising the cost of fuel purchased beyond monthly quotas to 50,000 rials (about 4 cents on the Iranian exchange market) per liter, officials said, in a shift that adds a third pricing level to the country’s long-running Russia convicts and hands life sentences to 8 people over attack on a key bridge to Crimea 11/27/2025 06:00am • A court in Russia on Thursday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over an attack on a bridge linking Russia to Moscow-annexed Crimea that is a key supply route for Kremlin forces in the war with Ukraine. The court sentenced all of the defendants to life in prison. The October 2022 attack on Sydney taekwondo instructor who murdered family of three consumed by fantasies of Olympic glory 11/27/2025 03:38am • SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney taekwondo instructor who murdered a family of three had been consumed by fantasies of Olympic glory and meetings with billionaires, a court heard Thursday. Prosecutors argued Kwang Kyung Yoo, 51, should never be released from prison after pleading guilty to murdering a 7-yea