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2026 World Cup Ticket Prices 12/15/2025 09:46am • A breakdown of the ticket prices for the 2026 World Cup soccer tournament, as of Dec. 11, 2025, as listed by FIFA (all in U.S. dollars): Category 1 ��� The highest-priced seats, located primarily in the lower tier Category 2 ��� Positioned outside of Category 1 areas, available in both lower and up Rob Reiner's life in photos 12/15/2025 09:44am • Rob Reiner, one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation who directed movies such as ���The Princess Bride,��� ���When Harry Met Sally ������ and ���This Is Spinal Tap,��� died Sunday at 78. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead at their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Farmers and politics threaten to put EU's free-trade deal with South America on ice 12/15/2025 09:22am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� France is throwing up a last-minute obstacle to a massive trans-Atlantic trade deal between the 27-country European Union and the five South American nations of the Mercosur bloc that���s taken a quarter-century to negotiate. Angry European farmers fearing new competition from the UAE-backed Yemeni separatists march to another southern province, raising fears of renewed conflict 12/15/2025 09:17am • CAIRO (AP) ��� An Emirati-backed secessionist group in Yemen said its forces were marching Monday to another province as part of the group���s push to expand areas under its control in the country���s south, at the expense of its allies in the internationally recognized government. The Southern Tran Iran hosts regional talks on Afghanistan but Kabul stays away 12/15/2025 09:14am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Afghanistan's neighbors met in Iran and agreed to deepen regional coordination to address political, economic and security challenges, as well as calling for sanctions on Afghanistan to be lifted. The only absent party? Afghanistan itself. China, Pakistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan Maresca committed to Chelsea after revelation about 'worst' period at club 12/15/2025 09:09am • LONDON (AP) ��� Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca is happy at the club, he said on Monday as he refused to go into more detail about the weekend outburst that he had just endured his worst spell since arriving in June 2024. After the 2-0 win over Everton on Saturday, Maresca said ���the last 48 hours has Iran's rial currency plummets to new low, sparking fears of higher food prices 12/15/2025 09:01am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Iran���s rial slid further Monday to a new record low of more than 1.3 million to the U.S. dollar, deepening the currency���s collapse less than two weeks after it first breached the 1.2-million mark amid sanctions pressure and regional tensions. Currency traders in Tehran quot Ruben Gallego emerges as key Democratic figure in Latino voter outreach 12/15/2025 08:40am • MIAMI (AP) ��� On a warm Sunday morning in Miami, Sen. Ruben Gallego stepped out of a car and approached parishioners exiting a church beneath palm trees, handing out flyers in this Dominican neighborhood. Gallego left some of his staff members behind as he drummed up support for a fellow Democrat r Older adults may struggle to learn a new language but classes are a worthwhile exercise 12/15/2025 08:38am • TOKYO (AP) ��� I speak decent Spanish, picked up working several decades ago as a news and sports reporter in Spain, Mexico and Argentina. Now I report from Tokyo. After seven years, I still can't grasp Japanese. My weekly language classes have taught me humility more than anything else. Ayaka Ono, The Bondi Beach shooting as seen from the beach, the boardwalk and a hotel 12/15/2025 08:37am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� As the sounds of bullets rang out and the bodies fell, the young mother threw herself on top of her 5-year-old son and prayed. ���Please don���t let us die,��� 33-year-old Rebecca begged God from her hiding place under a table in a park overlooking Bondi, Australia���s most iconic be Indulge in lychee-frosted sugar cookies with citrus notes and buttercream 12/15/2025 08:37am • At first glance, these Lychee-Frosted Sugar Cookies from my cookbook ���108 Asian Cookies: Not-Too-Sweet Treats from a Third-Culture Kitchen��� appear humble when unfrosted, like any other ordinary sugar cookie, like those you would find at the supermarket. But don���t be fooled. These charming su How an AM radio station in California weathered the Trump administration's assault on media 12/15/2025 08:29am • Before Jimmy Kimmel, there was KCBS. Just six days into President Donald Trump's new administration, the San Francisco Bay-area radio station KCBS-AM reported that immigration agents were in the area ��� driving ���unmarked vehicles including a black Dodge Durango, a gray Nissan Maxima and white Nis Punk protest group Pussy Riot declared 'extremist organization' by a Russian court 12/15/2025 08:19am • Punk group Pussy Riot was declared an ���extremist organization" by a Russian court on Monday. The ruling, which was made by Moscow���s Tverskoy District Court, effectively outlaws the group from operating in Russia and puts anyone linked with the group at risk of criminal prosecution. The feminist Interstellar comet keeps its distance as it makes its closest approach to Earth 12/15/2025 08:01am • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles (269 million kilometers) of our planet on Friday, the Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy protection; will be taken private under restructuring 12/15/2025 08:01am • Roomba maker iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but says that it doesn't expect any disruptions to devices as the more than 30-year-old company is taken private under a restructuring process. IRobot, which became well known for its robotic vacuums, has struggled of late, dealing