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A member of the United Auto Workers pickets earlier this month outside a General Motors facility in Langhorne, Pa. On Friday the union's members voted to ratify a tentative deal with the automaker, bringing an end to a national strike that lasted 40 days.

The Strike Is Over: UAW Members Ratify Deal With General Motors

On Friday, the United Auto Workers and its nearly 50,000 GM employees signaled an end to the six-week stalemate, voting to OK a deal that the labor union struck with the automaker earlier this month.

Protesters wave a Chilean national flag in front of military personnel in Santiago on Monday.

Violent Protests Continue In Chile As Government Imposes New Curfew

Demonstrations against wealth inequality have persisted, despite the fact that President Sebastián Piñera suspended transit fare hikes. There have been at least eight deaths reported.

In Hamburg, Germany, estimated life expectancy in the city's poorer neighborhoods still trails wealthier neighborhoods by 13 years.

Poor People Are Still Sicker Than The Rich In Germany, Despite Universal Health Care

Even with generous health coverage, sizable health disparities persist between Hamburg's wealthier and poorer neighborhoods. Crowding, poor air quality and fewer physicians plague poorer areas.

Poor People Are Still Sicker Than The Rich In Germany, Despite Universal Health Care

Even with generous health coverage, sizable health disparities persist between Hamburg's wealthier and poorer neighborhoods. Crowding, poor air quality and fewer physicians plague poorer areas.

The UAW GM National Council will vote on a new tentative deal Thursday in a potential end to the national strike that has idled GM plants.

GM And UAW Reach Tentative Agreement To End National Strike

When the union's GM national council reviews the deal's terms Thursday, it will decide whether nearly 50,000 workers should remain on strike or whether they should go back to work immediately.

Businesses have been slow to reopen since Hurricane Michael, in part because there aren't enough workers.

Recovery Is Slow In The Florida Panhandle A Year After Hurricane Michael

A year later, the populations of Panama City and Mexico Beach are lower, property tax rates are higher and many of the buildings that remain are just shells, lacking roofs, windows and walls.

In an elaborate crime that went undetected until Tuesday morning, thieves broke into a safe deposit center used by many jewelers. Here, a woman believed to be a police forensics officer emerges from the building.

Easter Heist: London Thieves May Have Taken $300 Million In Gems

The daring crime targeted Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company, used by many firms in London's jewelry quarter to store their wares.

S. Donald Stookey, photographed in 1950, prepares to expose an image to ultraviolet light. Stookey forever changed cooking with the invention of CorningWare.

Scientist Who Invented CorningWare Glass Dies At 99

S. Donald Stookey discovered glass ceramics in 1952 — the fortuitous outcome of an experiment gone wrong.

People in Bayonne, France, walk past posters for parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place June 11 and June 18.

'Citizen Candidates' Aim To Support French President Macron With Bids For Parliament

Emmanuel Macron promised France a "political revolution" if he became president. Now he is encouraging members of the public with little or no political experience to run for the National Assembly.

A worker at a bog owned by Massachusetts-based Decas Cranberry Products, Inc., removes vines from a batch of just-harvested berries.

How The Trade War Crushed A Growing Chinese Market For U.S. Cranberries

The U.S. has spent millions to get China to embrace the unknown fruit — and it did. Now, tariffs have driven China to buy its cranberries from other countries, leaving U.S. farmers in the lurch.

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