Nearly 200 men and women, among them Hollywood stars, rallied Saturday outside the Toronto film festival headquarters to call for equal pay and respect for...

Demonstrators clash with riot police during a protest against Greece's new name deal with Macedonia. -AFPGreek police have fired tear gas at protesters angry at...

Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has begun the final day of the general election campaign by warning about extremism and fascism.Neither his centre-left Social Democrats...

Australian police found up to five dead people, including a woman and children, on Sunday in a suburb of the western city of Perth, a...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras painted an optimistic vision Saturday night of a Greece that has emerged from eight years of financial austerity imposed by creditors...

Former President Barack Obama said Saturday that November midterm elections would give Americans "a chance to restore some sanity in our politics," taking another swipe...

Florence is likely to surge back to hurricane strength and take aim for the US East Coast states of North or South Carolina, forecasters warned...

The idea to hand out a popular film Oscar has been shelved for now following widespread backlash, but film academy president John Bailey says that...

A tiny Alaska Native village has experienced a boom in tourism in recent years as polar bears spend more time on land than on diminishing...

As facial recognition technology use generates intense scrutiny, a new system unveiled at Washington’s Dulles airport is being touted as a “user friendly” way to...

Millions of people covered under the Affordable Care Act will see only modest premium increases next year, and some will get a price cut. That's...

The run-up to a presidential election in Brazil plunged into chaos on Friday (Sept 7) after a knife attack on far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro put...

A Utah driver who slammed her Tesla into a stopped firetruck at a red light earlier this year while using the vehicle's semi-autonomous function has...

Japan has announced for the first time that a worker at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has died after being exposed to radiation, Japanese media...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on Thursday with Secretary General of the Vietnamese Communist Party Nguen Phu Trong, who is on an official visit...

Many senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration have been working from within to frustrate parts of his agenda to protect the country from his...

Cholera has killed 14 people with almost 400 hospitalised in the past week in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, the Borno state health commissioner said...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed the United States’ “strong support” for Argentina and for President Mauricio Macri’s efforts to enlist IMF support in tackling...

A Syrian rebel and a war monitor said Russian air strikes had resumed against insurgents in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Tuesday after several weeks. Syrian...

Ninety elephant carcasses have been discovered in Botswana with their tusks hacked off, a charity said Tuesday, in what is believed to be one of...

US President Donald Trump has accused Attorney General Jeff Sessions of damaging the midterm re-election chances of two Republican members of Congress by prosecuting them.The...

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump plan to discuss North Korea during the UN General Assembly in New York this month,...

Boris Johnson has savaged Theresa May's Brexit plans, saying they would leave the UK with "diddly squat" after the negotiations and hand the EU "victory".The...

Eight people were wounded, two critically, during a shooting at a California apartment complex during a dice game, police said Monday.Officers arrived at a chaotic...

The eastern French region of Hautes-Alpes said Monday it has begun vaccinating cows and sheep against anthrax after an outbreak of the fatal virus in...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Monday it had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired at the southern Saudi city of Jizan...

A blind woman said an Uber driver abruptly left her on the side of a Rio de Janeiro street last week after loudly berating her...

Vietnamese state media reported that police have arrested seven more people they say belong to an exile group based in Canada that aims to overthrow...

China hosts African leaders Monday for a summit aimed at promoting Beijing’s vision for development on the continent, even as it finds itself increasingly criticised...

Britain’s exit from the European Union could tip public opinion in Scotland in favour of seeking independence, an opinion poll showed on Sunday.Scotland voted against...

Some 400 prisoners escaped from a jail in Libya's capital on Sunday while fighting between rival armed groups raged nearby, a judiciary official said as...

A huge fire has engulfed the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, the oldest scientific institution in the country.Firefighters are tackling the blaze...

United States President Donald Trump will skip summits with Asian leaders in Singapore and Papua New Guinea in November, sending Vice President Mike Pence in...

Myanmar’s military has released 75 child soldiers, a UN agency said, its first discharge this year as part of a gradual process to end decades...

A can of pepper spray went off inside a plane headed from Oakland, California, to Maui on Friday, requiring emergency help for several people aboard,...

The S&P ratings agency placed Argentina’s short- and long-term credit ratings under review for possible downgrade Friday, citing pressure on the country’s currency.“We are placing...

A knife attacker on Friday stabbed two people at Amsterdam's Central Station before being shot by police in a suspected terror attack, Dutch police said.The...

Credit ratings agency Fitch maintained Hungary’s investment grade rating at ‘BBB-‘ on Friday, citing the country’s sustained current account surpluses and net equity FDI inflows...

Libyan authorities closed Tripoli airport on Friday after some rockets were fired in its direction, a spokesman for the state airline Libyan Airlines said.Flights will...

A white former Texas policeman was jailed on Wednesday for 15 years over the deadly shooting of an unarmed black teenager in a Dallas suburb...

Ex-president Cristina Kirchner has been called back to court for a second time in Argentina’s largest corruption case following a search of her homes last...

A ban on five neonicotinoid pesticides enters into force in France on Saturday, placing the country at the forefront of a campaign against chemicals blamed...

IMF chief Christine Lagarde said Wednesday she would ask her staff to look into accelerating payments to Argentina and otherwise strengthening the loan program amid...

Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots “before it is too late“, activists said Monday as talks on the...

A strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning or immediate reports of...

Senator John McCain, who died Saturday after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, will be honored at ceremonies in Arizona and Washington.McCain will first lie...

President Emmanuel Macron suffered a major political blow Tuesday as his popular environment minister resigned live on radio — without informing the French leader beforehand.Nicolas...

The US and Mexico have reached common ground on key trade terms as pressure mounts to complete renegotiation of the 25-year-old North American Free Trade...

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday condemned far-right protesters for seeking to "hunt down" foreigners after the killing of a German man allegedly by a foreigner.The...

The White House lowered its US flag to half-staff, raised it back up and on Monday lowered it again after the death of Senator John...