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Kumari, Nepal's living goddess, is carried high beside the chariot which she will ride, pulled by devotees, around the center of the capital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

See Nepal's living goddess leave her palace to bless throngs of worshipers

6:28 AM on Sunday, September 7

Trishna Shakya, 8, looks imposing in her finery as she is carried high in the arms of a helper from the temple palace

Pope Leo XIV waves to faithful holding a picture of Blessed Carlo Acutis, who will be canonized Sunday, as he arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for an open-air jubiliar audience Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

From coding to canonization: The extraordinary life of Carlo Acutis

2:30 AM on Sunday, September 7

Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old computer whiz, has been declared the first millennial saint of the Roman Catholic Church

FILE - Spiritual guide Julio Quispe performs a ceremony with coca leaves for a confederation of Indigenous governing bodies in La Paz, Bolivia, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Coca leaves remain a source of work, faith and identity in Bolivia

1:07 AM on Sunday, September 7

In Bolivia’s Yungas region, farmers like Tomas Zavala perform rituals to honor Mother Earth before harvesting coca leaves

A young Newar girl, dressed to represent divine female energy, waits for Kumari Puja, a ritual during which she will be worshipped at Hanuman Dhoka, Basantapur Durbar Square, Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal's festival season starts with a parade for a living goddess

9:36 AM on Saturday, September 6

Tens of thousands of devotees celebrated the start of Nepal's festival season by gathering in Kathmandu

This satellite photo provided by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran paving over Lot 41, where some of those executed in the chaos after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution were buried, at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery outside of Tehran, Iran, Aug. 18, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Iran paves over mass grave of 1979 revolution victims, turning it into a parking lot

1:25 AM on Saturday, September 6

Iran is paving over a lot in Tehran's largest cemetery believed to be the final resting place for some of the thousands killed in the mass executions that followed the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution

FILE - Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., speaks during the confirmation hearing for Kash Patel, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

National conservatism asserts its dominance in Trump's Washington

2:22 PM on Friday, September 5

National conservatism is reshaping the Republican Party in President Donald Trump’s second term

Sikh truck driver Prahb Singh maneuvers his truck at a gas station in Fontana, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A deadly crash, a divided nation: Why Sikh truckers are now in the crossfire

7:05 AM on Friday, September 5

Members of California’s Sikh trucking community say a deadly crash involving one of its own has led to a spike in anti-Sikh rhetoric

FILE - The Monastery of the Caves, also known as Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukraine moves to ban an Orthodox church it says is linked with pro-war Moscow church

1:12 AM on Friday, September 5

The Ukrainian government has declared that a branch of the Orthodox Church has failed to sever all ties with Moscow — and could soon be banned

Women take selfie photos during the celebration of Mawlid al-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somalis defy militants with processions to mark Prophet Muhammad's birthday

1:17 PM on Thursday, September 4

Somalis have marked the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday with a government-declared public holiday, reviving an old tradition of merriment once banned by extremist militants who reject such public spectacle

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