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  • An aerial view of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is pictured, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

    FBI seized 'top secret' documents from Trump home, court papers reveal

  • Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman)

    Author Salman Rushdie stabbed in neck on New York lecture stage

  • FILE - This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory that was captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Md. On Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming that monkeypox hasn't been detected in Georgia drinking water. The July 26 Atlanta-area news broadcast broadcast is being mischaracterized online to push the false claim that monkeypox has been found in residents’ tap water. (NIAID via AP)

    WHO plans to rename monkeypox over stigmatization concerns

  • This 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle. On Thursday, July 21, 2022, New York health officials reported a polio case, the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade. (Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC via AP)

    Polio detected in NYC's sewage, suggesting virus circulating

  • A view of the peninsula of Sirmione, on Garda lake, Italy, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Lake Garda water level has dropped critically following severe drought resulting in rocks to emerge around the Sirmione Peninsula. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

    European drought dries up rivers, kills fish, shrivels crops

  • German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach arrives for a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022 on the current Corona situation in Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

    Germany: EU could OK combined COVID vaccines next month

  • U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool Photo via AP)

    UN chief affirms support for denuclearized North Korea

  • Riot police officers argue with supporters of various political parties as they attempt to force their way into one of the tallying centres in Mombasa, Kenya, Thursday Aug. 11, 2022. Kenyans are waiting for the results of a close presidential election in which the turnout was lower than usual. (AP photo/Gideon Maundu)

    Slow tallies in close Kenya election raise fears of meddling

  • FILE - Workers wearing protective gear direct arriving passengers to quarantine hotels in the Hong Kong International Airport, Friday, April 1, 2022. Hong Kong’s government says its population has shrunk for a second year as anti-virus controls hampered the inflow of new workers and births declined, but it made no mention of an exodus of residents following a crackdown on a pro-democracy movement. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

    Hong Kong population shrinks for 2nd year under virus curbs

  • Afghan girls read the Quran in the Noor Mosque outside the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug 9, 2022. Maulvi Bakhtullah, the head of the mosque, said that the number of girls who come to this mosque to learn Quran has multiplied after the closure of public schools. For most teenage girls in Afghanistan, it’s been a year since they set foot in a classroom. With no sign the ruling Taliban will allow them back to school, some girls and parents are trying to find ways to keep education from stalling for a generation of young women. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

    Afghan girls face uncertain future after 1 year of no school

  • Ihor Kriuchenko, senior livestock technician, stands next to a few of the cows that remain at KramAgroSvit dairy farm in Dmytrivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Kriuchenko said the most difficult part has been saying goodbye to old colleagues who had worked at the farm for years and invested so much in its success. Amid the cutbacks, he said, he'd even had to fire his wife. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

    Dairy farm in Ukraine's Donbas region struggles to survive

  • FILE - Lotte group Chairman Shin Dong-bin, center, is questioned by reporters upon arrival for his corruption trial at Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 22, 2017. South Korea's president will formally pardon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, one year after he was released on parole from a prison sentence for bribing former President Park Geun-hye as part of the massive corruption scandal that toppled Park's government, the justice minister announced Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Shin and two other top business leaders will be pardoned as well, extending South Korea’s history of leniency toward convicted business tycoons and major white-collar crimes. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

    South Korea to pardon Samsung's Lee, other corporate giants

  • FILE - A man wearing a face mask walks past a billboard advertising Chinese technology firm Huawei at the PT Expo in Beijing, Oct. 14, 2020. Chinese tech giant Huawei said Friday, Aug. 12, 2022 its revenue fell in the first half of 2022 but new ventures in autos and other industries helped to offset a decline in smartphone sales under U.S. sanctions. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

    China's Huawei says sales down but new ventures growing