This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images published in the past week by The Associated Press.

Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids ...

A low-pressure system named Boris has caused devastating flooding in Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria in the last week, killing at least 24 people.

Israel carried out one of the most intense bombardments of the past year, as warplanes launched 70 airstrikes, Lebanese security officials said. The barrage came shortly after Hezbollah’s leader ...

Carlos Magdalena, whose botanical adventures have shades of Indiana Jones, was a driving force in saving the world’s smallest water lily and finding the largest one. He has been called the ...