KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – With flowers, candles and tears, Ukraine on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Some survivors said the chaos of that time is etched in their minds forever. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko led a ceremony …

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) – Telling the story of Chernobyl in numbers 30 years later involves dauntingly large figures and others that are even more vexing because they’re still unknown. A look at numbers that hint at the scope of the world’s worst nuclear accident, the explosion and fire at the …

KAFR HAMOUDA, Egypt (AP) – “For a thousand years,” Abdullah Sheikh’s family has been working the land the same way – flooding fields in Egypt’s Nile Delta and planting seeds by hand. But now a small, relatively cheap plow has changed all that, allowing him to nearly double the yields …

LONDON (AP) – Thousands of junior doctors posted picket lines outside hospitals around England on Tuesday in the first all-out strike in the history of Britain’s National Health Service. The two-day strike marks the first time that vital NHS emergency services have been affected by an industrial action. The strike …

NEW DELHI (AP) – Bangladesh’s prime minister vowed to hunt down and prosecute assailants who fatally stabbed two men, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina blamed the main opposition party and allied militants for Monday night’s killings. …

NEW YORK (AP) – Federal regulators will impose several conditions meant to protect online video services as they back Charter’s bid to buy Time Warner Cable and create the country’s second-largest home Internet provider. The Justice Department approved the deal Monday, subject to court approval on the conditions, while Federal …