The United States will no longer grant diplomatic visas to the same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats, requiring that they be legally married to obtain...

U.S.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo distanced himself Wednesday from a previously stated goal of getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons by the end...

The United States and Turkey have started training together to carry out joint patrols soon in northern Syria’s Manbij area, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis...

Scientists Frances Arnold, George Smith and Gregory Winter won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research using directed evolution to produce enzymes for new...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is heading back to North Korea for another round of talks aimed at getting Kim Jong Un to give...

Authorities were investigating two envelopes suspected of containing a suspected poison that were addressed to top military chiefs and a third with unknown contents sent...

 The ferry sent out a distress call at 1045 GMT and the Lithuanian military has sent a helicopter to the ferry and has two more...

Canada's Parliament has formally stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship for complicity in the atrocities committed against Myanmar's Rohingya people.The Senate...

In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded...

Cameroon’s president says Boko Haram has been defeated in the country, the first such announcement since he declared war on the extremist group four years...

A South Carolina charter boat captain said the 35-pound fish he caught from his boat is a new world record. Brian Vaughn, a captain with...

Three people were reported missing in Greece on Sunday after swirling winds and torrential rain brought flash floods in several parts of the country.A rare...

The Maltese authorities on Sunday finally allowed 58 migrants from the Aquarius ashore after days waiting in rough seas on board the rescue ship that...

The man at the centre of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature was...

The United States announced on Friday it will effectively close its consulate in the Iraqi city of Basra and relocate diplomatic personnel assigned there following...

Watching the two little lion cubs boisterously play with each other at a conservation centre outside of South Africa's capital Pretoria, it is hard to...

Canadian and US negotiators reached a deal late Sunday on reforming the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canadian media reported, after more than a...

Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk have agreed to pay a total of $40 million and make a series of concessions to settle a government...

At a news conference at the United Nations, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said, “India will make a ‘sovereign decision’ on Russian defence purchases which...

Former US president Barack Obama warned Friday against rising nationalism as he painted a grim picture of American and global politics on a visit to...

Moments after pivotal Senator Jeff Flake announced his support for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the Arizona Republican was confronted with the consequences.Two women cornered...

A Houston mayor has pushed back against the opening of a "robot brothel" in the city, where punters could pay $60 for sex with a...

Facebook Inc. said on Friday that hackers stole digital login codes allowing them to take over nearly 50 million user accounts in its worst security...

The United States is working on a counteroffer to stop Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from building internet infrastructure in Papua New Guinea,...

Plans by Italy’s populist government to vastly expand its deficit spending appear to breach EU budget rules, EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said Friday.“It is a...

Chile is home to four-fifths of South America’s glaciers and has some of the largest ice fields in the world outside the polar regions, but...

Marty Balin, a patron of the 1960s “San Francisco Sound” both as founder and lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane and co-owner of the club...

US President Donald Trump ordered a new FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against his Supreme Court pick on Friday, as the Senate delayed a...

Several Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have walked out of a hearing on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.Kamala Harris of California, Mazie...

After more than a century of conflicting evidence, Anglo-French animosity and a H.G. Wells novella involving murder most fowl, scientists said Wednesday they have finally...

Morocco’s navy on Tuesday fired on a boat carrying migrants that refused to respond to its orders, leaving a young woman dead and three other...

Bloomberg Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and other tech and advertising companies have committed to implementing new measures and investing in new technologies...

Germany’s Catholic Church on Tuesday apologized to thousands of victims of sexual assault by clergy, with the institution’s top cardinal saying perpetrators must be brought...

Taking center stage at the United Nations, U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused China of trying to interfere in the upcoming U.S. congressional elections...

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that the Rafale deal was a "government-to-government" discussion and he was not in power when the multi-billion dollar agreement...

The bodies of a wealthy British retiree and his Thai wife were found buried on their own property Tuesday a week after an alleged contract...

Pope Francis acknowledged Tuesday that the sex abuse scandals rocking the Catholic Church were driving people away and said the church must change its ways...

A senior Chinese official said on Tuesday that it is difficult to proceed with trade talks with the United States while Washington is putting “a...

U.S. President Donald Trump poured scorn on the “ideology of globalism” and heaped praise on his own administration’s achievements Tuesday in a speech to the...

At an age when other Hollywood stars are settling into retirement and collecting lifetime-achievement awards, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was led away to prison in...

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh declared in a televised interview Monday that he never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or at any other time...

As many as 8,000 people in and around the city of Georgetown, South Carolina, have been urged to evacuate ahead severe flooding expected this week...

US President Donald Trump on Monday inked his administration's first trade deal with South Korea, which he described as "a historic milestone" and a promise...

After a long weekend spent wondering if he should resign or would be fired, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein still has his job — for...

The United States on Sunday condemned the deadly attack on a military parade in Iran but said the country’s clerical rulers needed to look at...

U.S. President Donald Trump raised hopes at the United Nations on Monday that a second meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un could occur “quite...

The Vatican and China said Saturday they had signed a “provisional agreement” over the appointment of bishops, a breakthrough on an issue that stymied diplomatic...

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Sunday he would prefer a national election to a second referendum on Brexit.The Labour Party's annual...

Raw sewage flows freely in some streets of Zimbabwe’s capital, posing a deadly challenge to the recently elected president who has promised the troubled country...

A U.S. military airstrike killed 18 al-Shabab extremists after U.S. and local forces on the ground came under attack in southern Somalia, the U.S. Africa...

Some 20,000 people marched in Bern Saturday demanding wage equality between the genders, organizers said, warning that women are prepared to go on strike if...

Opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih declared victory early Monday in the Maldives’ contentious presidential election widely seen as a referendum on the island nation’s young...

Benjamin Zawacki provides a thoroughly researched account of the alarming shift of a US ally and friend into the orbit of China. Thailand: Shifting Ground...

A key US Senate committee has postponed its high-stakes hearing on sexual assault allegation against President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after his...

International aid agencies are losing the fight against famine in Yemen, where 3.5 million people may soon be added to the 8 million Yemenis already...

The United States is working to set up a second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but there is...

Facebook Inc. said on Thursday that it would no longer dispatch employees to the offices of political campaigns to offer support ahead of elections, as...

The Trump administration Saturday told a federal court that its decision to revoke work permits to H-4 visas holders, who are primarily spouses of H-1B...

Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the UN, on Thursday slammed The New York Times for publishing a wrong story about expensive curtains at her...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen expressed outrage Thursday after being ordered to undergo psychiatric tests for tweeting pictures of atrocities committed by the Islamic...

Some 2,000 asylum-seekers will be moved out of a severely overcrowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos this month, a Greek official said...

United States President Donald Trump, or rather a part of him, is in the news.Pornographic film star Stormy Daniels, in her tell-all memoir "Full Disclosure",...

Hundreds of people waited in long lines for water and other essentials Tuesday in Wilmington, still mostly cut off by high water days after Hurricane...

Ireland’s president on Tuesday signed a constitutional amendment repealing strict abortion laws in the staunchly Catholic country.More than 66 percent of voters who took part...

Germany’s government said on Tuesday it would replace the head of its domestic intelligence agency who has faced accusations of harboring far-right sympathies, putting an...

Rain-gorged rivers threatened further flooding on the storm-battered US East Coast Monday as the death toll from Hurricane Florence, now a tropical depression, jumped to...

A report considering the impact of Brexit on the UK labour market will be published by government advisers later.The Migration Advisory Committee considered the impact...

A homeless man who allegedly wanted to "rape and kill women" has been charged with murder for stabbing to death champion Spanish college golfer Celia...

Russia’s defence ministry on Monday said it was releasing fresh information to back its claim that the missile that downed a Malaysia Airlines flight over...

U.S. Republicans are forging ahead with plans for a Senate hearing they had hoped to avoid on a woman’s claims that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted...

Russia on Tuesday accused Israel of indirectly causing a Russian military plane to be shot down near Syria’s Mediterranean coast, and threatened to retaliate against...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz are meeting to discuss migration before an upcoming European Union summit on the topic.Merkel told reporters...

The U.S. will slash the number of refugees it will accept for a second straight year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday, insisting amid...

The Trump administration will impose tariffs on $200 billion more in Chinese goods starting next week, escalating a trade war between the world’s two biggest...

Time Magazine is being sold by Meredith Corp to Marc Benioff, a co-founder of Salesforce, and his wife, it was announced Sunday.Meredith announced that it...

British Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday she was "irritated" by speculation about a leadership contest as she slammed former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, seen...

The Trump administration will send a message to all U.S. cellphones on Thursday to test a previously unused alert system that aims to warn the...

An Australian state has offered a large reward for information after sewing needles were found in strawberries sold in supermarkets, in what the federal health...

Tunisia’s ruling party has suspended Prime Minister Youssef Chahed in the latest escalation of a row with the president’s son that has paralyzed key decisions...

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday pledged to launch a satellite that will track and detect the sources of climate pollutants, his state’s latest effort...

Russian warships held drills in the Bering Sea which separates Russia from Alaska, part of Moscow’s biggest military maneuvers since the fall of the Soviet...

London Fashion Week kicked off on Friday, declaring itself fur-free for the first time as an increasing number of designers seek to burnish their ethical...

Typhoon Mangkhut roared toward densely populated Hong Kong and southern China on Sunday after ravaging across the northern Philippines with ferocious winds and heavy rain...

US President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will plead guilty to two criminal counts as part of a deal with prosecutors on Friday,...

Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is helping to craft the curriculum for a leadership course at a right-wing Roman Catholic institute in Italy,...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has agreed to reconsider the asylum claims of some 1,000 immigrant parents and children who were separated at the U.S....

The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has risen to 25, the government said Thursday as the World Health Organization warned that the...

Dozens of explosions, apparently triggered by a natural gas pipeline rupture, rocked three communities near Boston on Thursday, killing at least one person, injuring 12...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said North Korea must be given security guarantees in exchange for steps towards denuclearisation."North Korea, in return for its...

The United States will not tolerate any form of foreign interference in its elections, President Donald Trump said Wednesday after signing an executive order that...

Brazil’s jailed ex-leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tapped his runningmate Fernando Haddad on Tuesday to replace him on the ballot in next month’s presidential...

Donald Trump’s plan to visit Ireland for the first time as U.S. president this November has been canceled for scheduling reasons, the Irish government announced...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia knew the real identity of two men accused by British prosecutors of trying to murder former...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Monday on a road map for joint economic activities in five priority areas on and...

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator was cautiously optimistic Monday about the prospects of a deal with Britain by early November, in comments that triggered...

California has set a goal of phasing out electricity produced by fossil fuels by 2045 under legislation signed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown, who said...

Seventeen years after the devastating 9/11 attacks, President Donald Trump heads to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to pay tribute, as his predecessors have done, to the...

More than a million people were ordered Monday to evacuate the path of Hurricane Florence as the powerful Category 4 storm packing winds of 140...

An Australian cartoonist has come under withering criticism for portraying tennis superstar Serena Williams using – what Harry Potter author JK Rowling described as –...

A key crossing point between one-time bitter enemies Ethiopia and Eritrea is set to reopen after a border war shut it more than 20 years...

A French judicial official says an investigation has been opened for attempted murders after seven people were injured in a knife attack in central Paris...

A U.S.-hosted meeting with Mexico and Central American countries scheduled for this week in Washington has been called off, officials said on Sunday, as U.S....

 A Spanish parishioner has painted three 15th-century sculptures in garish colors, giving Jesus a bright green robe in the latest botched amateur art restoration to...

U.S. President Donald Trump has received a request from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a follow-up to their historic June summit, and planning...

Fresh protests against raising the retirement age are being held across Russia, after a call by jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Pension reforms have caused...

An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld death sentences against 75 people, in one of the largest mass trials since the 2011 uprising, and gave a...

A overloaded commercial plane crashed into a lake in South Sudan on Sunday and killed 21 people, a local official said.The 19-seater commercial Baby air...

Polls have opened in Sweden's general election in what is expected to be one of the most unpredictable and thrilling races in the Scandinavian country...

The United States foreign policy approach to China – from President Donald Trump’s bellicose words to the administration’s description of China as “a revisionist power”...

 U.S. President Donald Trump declared Friday that the Justice Department should investigate and unmask the author of a bitingly critical New York Times opinion piece...

George Papadopoulos, the Trump campaign adviser who triggered the Russia investigation, was sentenced to 14 days in prison Friday after he told a judge he...

President Donald Trump says he’s expecting get a letter in the coming days that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is sending him through Secretary...

The Swedish center-left bloc holds a slim lead over the center-right ahead of Sunday’s national election, a survey showed, but both are short of a...

George Papadopoulos, the Trump campaign adviser who triggered the Russia investigation, was sentenced to 14 days in prison after he told a judge he was...

British Security Minister Ben Wallace said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had "ultimate" responsibility for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double...

Brazil’s jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is preparing to give up his bid to run in next month’s presidential election, three party...

Lawyers for Sayfullo Saipov, the man accused of killing eight people by driving a truck into a New York City bike path in October, on...

Police in the German state of Saxony said Thursday they have identified six far-right protesters who gave the stiff-armed Hitler salute or committed other violations...

 At least one person was killed and 32 were missing, Japanese media reported, after a powerful earthquake paralysed the northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday,...

Britain’s opposition Labour Party adopted an internationally accepted definition of anti-Semitism on Tuesday, trying to defuse a row that has heaped pressure on its leader...

Ten people on board a 14-hour Emirates flight from Dubai were taken to hospital in New York on Wednesday after US health authorities mobilized to...

A ceasefire has been signed between armed factions fighting over the Libyan capital, the United Nations said on Tuesday, after more than a week of...

US President Donald Trump plans to lead a meeting of the heads of state of the United Nations Security Council on Iran in late September,...

The unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “Salvator Mundi” at the Louvre Abu Dhabi has been indefinitely postponed, authorities said Monday.Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture...

The wives of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar jailed for seven years on official secrets charges insisted on Tuesday that the men were innocent and...

A man testified Tuesday that he spent about eight hours cutting up his wife’s body after she died at a Missouri hotel because he was...

Anger smoldered in Brazil on Monday after a fire destroyed the National Museum, a cherished historical repository that lacked a sprinkler system and which had...

Differences emerged between Germany’s governing parties on Monday over how to respond to the Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) alleged ties to anti-Islamic and racist groups,...

U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae In plan to meet later this month in New York.The leaders agreed during a conversation...

Senator John McCain has been buried at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, after a small private ceremony. A military flypast was performed with the...

Italy’s populist government will make a “historic choice” between what citizens need and what ratings agencies say should be done, the deputy prime minister said...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has defended a decision to have a plane make an extra flight so she can spend less time away...

The anti-immigration far-right is expected to soar in Sweden's Sep 9 general election, capitalizing on voter discontent as Swedes punish traditional parties over immigration, integration...

Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who took the helm of the UN human rights office on Monday, will need a strong voice in confronting populists...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has apologised for comparing himself to Hitler, visited Israel's Holocaust memorial on Monday (Sep 3) and said he hoped the...

The United States’ top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and...

 An Indian-origin woman has been sentenced to over five years in prison for health care fraud and making false statements related to a health care...

The anti-immigration far-right is expected to soar in Sweden’s September 9 general election, capitalising on voter discontent as Swedes punish traditional parties over immigration, integration...

Police in eastern Germany brought an early close Saturday to an anti-migrant march that far-right activists hoped would launch a nationwide movement to challenge the...

The Palestinians on Saturday condemned the U.S. decision to end its decades of funding for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, calling it an attack...

Brazil’s main leftist party said Saturday it’s sticking with former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as its presidential candidate, even though the electoral court...

French President Emmanuel Macron urged the European Union on Thursday to modernize its post-Cold War ties with Russia and pursue “strategic relations” with Turkey as...

In its latest push to end the use of race in college admissions, the Trump administration on Thursday accused Harvard University of “engaging in outright...

The FBI on Friday arrested five former residents of a ramshackle compound in New Mexico on firearms and conspiracy charges as local prosecutors dropped charges...

A majority of justices on Brazil's electoral court voted late Friday to bar ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running in October's presidential election,...

An Australian filmmaker arrested after flying a drone to photograph a Cambodian opposition party rally last year was convicted of spying and sentenced to six...

The White House on Friday informed Congress it intends to sign a new free trade deal with Mexico and possibly Canada within 90 days.While no...

 A nine-year-old boy in Denver, Colorado, has committed suicide on the first week of school after being bullied by classmates for coming out as gay,...

A top Pentagon official has cautioned India that there are no guarantees for a special waiver from US sanctions if it buys new weapons platforms...

More critics of US Donald Trump found themselves unblocked from his Twitter account on Wednesday, in keeping with a court ruling that he can’t shut...