A shooter wounded at least four people at a yoga studio in Florida’s capital before killing himself Friday, officials said.The shooting was in a small...

When Alberto Fujimori fled graft allegations and resigned Peru’s presidency by fax from Japan in 2000, many thought the family name and the right-wing populist...

The bones were uncovered on Monday by builders refurbishing a building owned by the Vatican in Rome, the Holy See said, in a potential breakthrough...

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul as part of a premeditated killing, and his body...

NASA’s elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary.Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope’s demise Tuesday.Already well...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday visited the Pittsburgh synagogue attacked by an anti-Semitic gunman and lit candles for each of the 11 slain worshippers,...

British citizens already living in Norway and Norwegian citizens living in Britain will have the right to remain residents, even in case of a no-deal...

U.S. sanctions against Iran will have “severe consequences” for the world order, the Islamic republic said on Tuesday, days before new sanctions on Tehran’s oil...

Turkey’s president said Tuesday his country has finalized plans for a “comprehensive and effective” operation that would target U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in Syria east of...

US national security adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday the Trump administration wants sanctions on Iran's crude exports to strain Tehran, but does not want...

The man charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday, as some members of the Jewish community and others...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Tuesday for a cessation of hostilities in Yemen and said U.N.-led negotiations to end the civil war...

Former nurse Niels Hoegel, accused of killing more than 100 patients in his care, will go on trial Tuesday in the biggest serial killing trial...

President Donald Trump wants to order the end of the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born in the United...

Police in New York searched Tuesday for clues to what, or who, killed two sisters whose bodies were found duct-taped together on the banks of...

The fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has hit out at US President Donald Trump's response to his murder, saying he must not let Riyadh...

President Donald Trump says he wants to order the end of the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born in...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Sunday that the United States was in consultation with its European allies on an arms control treaty, as...

The United States said on Monday it will send over 5,200 troops to help secure the border with Mexico, a far larger-than-expected deployment as President...

Britain said it would tax the revenue that online platforms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon make in the country to update a system that...

A group of Pittsburgh Jewish leaders wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday telling him he bears responsibility for a deadly shooting...

Angela Merkel will step down as German chancellor when her mandate ends in 2021, a party source told AFP Monday, after a series of political...

The package was intercepted three days after a man was arrested for sending a wave of parcel bombs to prominent Democrats.Another suspicious package addressed to...

The United States is preparing to announce tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports by early December if talks next month between presidents Donald Trump and...

A woman suicide bomber blew herself up Monday near police vehicles in the centre of the Tunisian capital, injuring at least nine people, the interior...

A man who killed a South Dakota prison guard in a failed escape seven years ago is scheduled to be executed Monday after dropping his...

A major meeting of Catholic bishops ended on Saturday with a call for women to play a greater role in Church decision making as a...

Former army captain Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil on Sunday, promising a fundamental change in direction for the giant Latin American country, the...

A helicopter belonging to Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha crashed on Saturday near the stadium of his Premier League club Leicester City.The helicopter was seen enveloped...

A helicopter belonging to Leicester City football club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha crashed in a ball of flames in the club’s car park on Saturday after...

The Mexican government seems torn between stopping several thousand Central American migrants from traveling toward the U.S. border in a caravan or burnishing its international...

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he has been "toned down" and alleged that the media has been "unfair" to him and the...

On Friday, President Donald Trump said that the news media was more focused on covering “this ‘Bomb’ stuff” rather than politics. He stated that he...

Two suspicious packages addressed to Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris and billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer were recovered, taking the number of such packages to 14, the...

US media reported at least four people killed Saturday after police in the US city of Pittsburgh were called to an "active shooter," reportedly near...

A gunman who’s believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday and opened fire, killing...

The United Kingdom told Ecuador in August that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would not be extradited if he left the country's London embassy, where he...

CIA Director Gina Haspel on Thursday briefed President Donald Trump on the investigations related to US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was brutally killed inside Saudi...

US investigators have been searching coast-to-coast for the culprit and motives behind the bizarre mail-bomb plot aimed at critics of the president, analysing the innards...

Even though his own country is seen as a bastion of cannabis use in Europe, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is categorical: don't try it.He...

The United States urged political parties in Sri Lanka on Friday to abide by the Constitution and refrain from violence, as the island nation faces...

A man in Florida with a lengthy criminal recode was arrested and charged on Friday with sending 13 suspicious packages containing improvised explosive devices to...

The US pushed back Thursday against a Russian draft resolution to the UN General Assembly that proposed to preserve the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s planned U.S. Space Command should seek to develop ways for the country’s military to operate in outer space, White House advisers...

A male suspect fatally shot a man and a woman at a Kroger grocery store on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky, and then exchanged fire...

A sudden wave of pipe bombs targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, other prominent Democrats and CNN was thwarted without physical harm, but an...

A 'functional explosive device' was sent to Hillary and Bill Clinton's residence in New York as well as to former president Barack Obama on Wednesday,...

A 102-year-old man has been charged with aggravated indecent assault against a 92-year-old woman at an old people's home in Sydney, police said Wednesday.The unnamed...

Two men convicted of the fatal stabbing of an Indian-origin man earlier this year have been sentenced to a total of 40 years in jail...

Italy told the European Commission on Monday it would stick to its contested 2019 budget plans in defiance of EU fiscal rules, but promised not...

European Union negotiators are looking at ways to promise Britain a customs deal that could stretch Brussels’ Brexit red lines, but might break a deadlock...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday the United States will start cutting aid to three Central American countries as a caravan of thousands of mostly...

The United States said Tuesday it was revoking visas of Saudis involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as President Donald Trump ridiculed the...

Belgium has chosen Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth jets over the Eurofighter Typhoon to replace its aging F-16s, news agency Belga cited government sources as saying,...

U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his immigration rhetoric at a midterm rally in Texas on Monday, falsely accusing Democrats of “encouraging millions of illegal aliens...

When the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001 by 19 hijackers -- 15 of them from Saudi Arabia -- the kingdom switched into...

Up to 10,000 Americans due to have hip or knee replacements will be able to funnel basic health data directly from their Apple Watches to...

House Democrats are expected to reopen the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election if they win the majority in November. But they would...

Shinta Ratri, the matron of an Indonesian Islamic boarding school, corrects the pronunciation of a group of fellow Muslims as they chant the phrase “only...

A French researcher has invented a robot finger that attaches to your mobile phone. It can wriggle across your desk. It can stroke your hand....

A Russian woman accused by the U.S. of helping oversee a social media effort to influence the 2018 U.S. midterm elections mocked the accusations Monday,...

LGBT leaders across the U.S. reacted with fury Monday to a report that the Trump administration is considering adoption of a new definition of gender...

Thousands of Central American migrants resumed an arduous trek toward the U.S. border Monday, with many bristling at suggestions there could be terrorists among them...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sued the Ecuador government on Friday for violating his “fundamental rights” and limiting his access to the outside world while in...

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the European Union marched through London on Saturday in the biggest demonstration so far to demand that the British...

U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed Saturday that the United States plans to leave a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty with Russia, which criticized the move...

About 380,000 illegal migrants, mostly from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, have left Angola in less than a month during a massive operation targeting...

 Australia’s ruling coalition was forced into minority government on Saturday after a massive swing against its senior partner, the Liberal Party, in a by-election for...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on the telephone to discuss Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Anadolu agency said on Monday...

NATO, the European Union and the United States on Saturday hailed a Macedonian parliament vote as another step toward ending a decadeslong name row with...

Trump confirmed that US will pull out of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty that it had signed with Russia.Withdrawing from a Cold War-era nuclear...

Britons dreading life outside Europe will rally from all corners to London on Saturday to try to stop their country's looming breakup with the EU.The...

President Donald Trump said Saturday he will pull the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty because Russia has violated the agreement, but he...

The international community must keep up the pressure on Saudi Arabia after its admission that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in its Turkish consulate, Reporters without...

Nearly three out of every four H-1B visa holders as of October 5 are Indian citizens, an official US report has said.According to the US...

The US has accused a Russian woman of helping oversee the finances of a sweeping, secretive effort to sway American public opinion through social media...

President Donald Trump confirmed Saturday that the United States plans to leave a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty with Russia, which criticised the move as...

Thousands of migrants who forced their way through Guatemala's northwestern border and flooded onto a bridge leading to Mexico, where riot police battled them back,...

A Republican congressman in central Arkansas and his challenger on Thursday condemned a political action committee's radio ad that suggests white Democrats will lynch black...

European and Japanese space agencies say an Ariane 5 rocket has successfully lifted a spacecraft into orbit for a joint mission to Mercury, the closest...

The United States on Thursday downgraded the status of its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians by placing it under the authority of the U.S....

President Donald Trump will likely have his second meeting with Kim Jong Un early next year to continue charting a way for the North Korean...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has neither heard a tape nor seen a transcript related to the disappearance of Saudi Arabia's dissident journalist Jamal...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said the mass school shooting in Crimea a day before was the result of “globalisation” and the continuation of...

Brazil’s federal police filed new charges against President Michel Temer on Tuesday, recommending he be put on trial for corruption, money laundering and criminal association...

The U.S. military on Tuesday announced its deadliest airstrike against the Al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia in nearly a year, killing about 60 fighters.The U.S....

Cuban evangelical churches are collecting signatures to petition against a proposed constitutional amendment that would open the door to gay marriage, as part of an...

Nearly a century of marijuana prohibition came to an end Wednesday as Canada became the first major Western nation to legalize and regulate the sale...

Hurricane Michael killed at least 30 people in four states, as the storm made its way through the southeastern United States last week, new local...

US officials announced Tuesday negotiations for separate trade agreements with Britain, the European Union and Japan as part of efforts by President Donald Trump's administration...

At least 12 people died in southwestern France on Monday when some of the worst flash floods in a century turned rivers into raging torrents...

The Russian Orthodox Church said on Monday it had decided to sever all relations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in protest over its endorsement...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, whose government faces a crucial by-election in four days, said on Tuesday Canberra was open to recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s...

An IT advocacy group representing more than 1,000 small IT companies mostly run by Indian-Americans has filed a lawsuit against the US immigration agency for...

A potent combination of hunger, climate change and man-made conflicts are creating a “perfect storm”, the head of the UN’s food arm warned Tuesday in...

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday insisted a Brexit deal was "still achievable" despite differences with the EU, but warned against any attempt to...

Somalia on Sunday marked the first anniversary of one of the world’s deadliest attacks since 9/11, a truck bombing in the heart of Mogadishu that...

The former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co., Lai Xiaomin, has been expelled from the Communist Party and will be prosecuted for suspected corruption,...

A beaming Duke and Duchess of Sussex started the first day of official engagements of a royal tour of Australia on Tuesday with the public...

Australia’s prime minister said Tuesday that he was open to shifting the Australian Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in line with President Donald Trump’s...

President Donald Trump has alleged China, in addition to Russia, meddled in the 2016 US presidential elections. Last month, chairing a UN Security Council meeting on...

US President Donald Trump said Monday he'd received a strong denial from Saudi Arabia's king of any involvement in the disappearance of a critical journalist...

Critics have wondered whether power imbalance between a president and intern made it impossible for relationship to be thought Hillary Clinton has said her husband...

For two decades, little besides soldiers, refugees and rebels moved across Ethiopia and Eritrea’s closed border, but now the once-barren no man’s land teems with...

A runaway hearse carrying an Ebola victim has become the latest example of sometimes violent community resistance complicating efforts to contain a Congo outbreak —...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative allies lost their absolute majority in Bavaria’s state parliament by a wide margin in a regional election Sunday, a result...

Saudi Arabia on Sunday threatened to retaliate for any sanctions imposed against it after U.S. President Donald Trump said the oil-rich kingdom deserves “severe punishment”...

Freed American pastor Andrew Brunson fell to one knee in the Oval Office and placed his hand on President Donald Trump’s shoulder in prayer on...

US President Donald Trump has said that he wants people with merit, who can help, to enter the country and not sneak inside the border...

Thousands of people have marched through downtown Chicago to express their displeasure at President Donald Trump and encourage voters to go to the polls for...

Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, likely paid little or no federal income taxes between 2009 and 2016, the...

Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman refuted allegations of any wrongdoing on the part of the government in the 2016 deal to buy Rafale fighter jets from...

Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of Washington DC archbishop Donald Wuerl, who has been blamed for not doing enough to deal with paedophile...

A shopping mall under construction in the Mexican city of Monterrey collapsed on Thursday, killing at least seven people and leaving another nine missing, officials...

U.S. President Donald Trump declared Friday the U.S. will uncover the truth about what happened to journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi, whose possible murder...

The Trump administration has said that it will "sharply restrict" exports of civilian nuclear technology to China. The statement comes at a time when officials...

At least 31 people were killed when a floodwaters triggered by a landslide swept debris through a town in eastern Uganda, destroying homes and burying...

Does rap megastar Kanye West support Donald Trump? He loves him -- and proved it Thursday by suddenly striding from his chair at a surreal...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the US "will take care" of the countries which will continue to import oil from Iran after November...

Charges of fake news are heating up the presidential race ahead of Brazil’s Oct. 28 runoff, with the center-left candidate on Tuesday accusing his rival’s...

Former Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori was detained on Wednesday as part of a money-laundering investigation, the latest political leader in the Andean nation to...

A Chinese spy who allegedly attempted to steal trade secrets from several American aviation and aerospace companies was charged Wednesday and extradited to the U.S.Yanjun...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that India "will soon find out" about his decision on the punitive CAATSA sanctions after India signed a USD...

Pope Francis on Wednesday compared having an abortion to hiring a "contract killer"."Interrupting a pregnancy is like eliminating someone," Francis said in an address to...

Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he would stick to his hardline agenda on guns, crime and graft in the second round...

In the latest shake-up for President Donald Trump’s turbulent administration, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley abruptly announced Tuesday she is resigning at the end of the...

Vomit and used condoms are a common sight here -- not a college party or freshers' week, but the United Kingdom Parliament offices.According to a...

China said on Monday it was investigating former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei for bribery and other violations, days after French authorities said the Chinese official...

At least 40 lawmakers in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party are willing to vote down her possible Brexit deal if it leaves the United...

Google will shut down the consumer version of its social network Google+ after announcing data from up to 500,000 users may have been exposed to...

Viktoria Marinova, a Bulgarian TV journalist, was raped and murdered, prosecutors and the interior minister said. -AFPPolice in Bulgaria are investigating the killing of investigative...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made “significant progress” toward an agreement for the...

United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was apologising on behalf of the whole country to his new conservative Supreme Court justice...

Two American researchers have been awarded the Nobel Prize for economics for studying the interplay of climate change and technological innovation with economics.William Nordhaus of...

A far-right former army captain who expresses nostalgia for Brazil’s military dictatorship won the first round of its presidential election by a surprisingly large margin...

Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this...

The wife of Interpol’s president made an impassioned plea Sunday for help in bringing her missing husband to safety, saying she thinks he sent an...

Pro-Russia Serb leader Milorad Dodik won a race to fill the Serb seat in Bosnia’s three-member presidency Sunday, deepening ethnic divisions in the country that...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo headed to Pyongyang Sunday for new crunch talks with Kim Jong Un on denuclearisation and a second US-North Korean...

The far-right candidate and frontrunner in Brazil's presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, has vowed to tackle crime and reduce record high murder rates.On the eve of...

BEIJING: China remained silent Saturday (Oct 6) over the disappearance of the head of Interpol, deepening the mystery over the international police chief's fate after...

Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in Saturday night as the 114th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, after a wrenching debate over sexual misconduct and judicial...

China represents a “significant and growing risk” to the supply of materials vital to the U.S. military, according to a new Pentagon-led report that seeks...

The US Senate's Republican leadership moved forward with the confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, setting up a Friday procedural vote and a...

Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in fighting sexual violence in...

Venezuelan migrant Alfonso Mendoza was born without legs. Abandoned by his parents, he contemplated suicide. But everything about him shouts: “Believe in Yourself!” — ask...

British Prime Minister Theresa May battled to unite her Conservative Party on Wednesday, telling critics to abandon their dreams of a “perfect” Brexit and “come...

Washington: Pakistan cabinet minister Noor-Ul-Haq Qadri "should have been more sensitive" while sharing the dais with 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, Pakistan's foreign minister...

The US on Wednesday urged its allies not to enter into transactions with Russia and warned that it would trigger American sanctions, a day after...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off a New York Times investigation that concluded he made his fortune with the help of more than...