President Donald Trump's administration took steps Tuesday to rescind Obama-era guidelines that encouraged schools to take applicants' race and ethnicity into account to promote diversity.The...

More than 2,000 firefighters battled a massive wildfire in California on Tuesday as authorities warned that record-breaking heat expected by the weekend could spark more...

A heat wave in Quebec has killed at least 19 people in the past week as high summer temperatures scorched eastern Canada, health officials said...

The pair, a local 44-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, were hospitalised after being found unwell on Saturday in Amesbury, just miles away from Salisbury...

Fires on moorland outside the northern English city of Manchester intensified on Saturday, prompting authorities to declare a major incident.Hot weather and wind over the...

Australia has begun a compensation scheme for victims of institutional child sex abuse. Some 60,000 Australians will be eligible for compensation. The scheme, known as...

Boko Haram jihadists killed four people during a raid on a camp for civilians displaced by the Islamist group's violent insurgency in Nigeria's troubled northeast,...

Tens of thousands of people have joined nationwide protests across the US over the Trump administration's hardline immigration policies.More than 630 events were planned, with...

 Hundreds of people gathered on Friday evening to remember the five people gunned down at a community newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland, one of the...

Unesco on Saturday added eight pre-Islamic Iranian archaeological sites, Mumbai’s Art Deco buildings, seven ancient Korean mountain temples and a dozen Christian locations in parts...

Australia has begun a compensation scheme for victims of institutional child sex abuse.Some 60,000 Australians will be eligible for compensation.the scheme, known as the National...

Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will discuss a number of complex issues during their meeting in Helsinki on July 16, Russian...

 The US government said in a court filing on Friday that it has the right to detain children and parents caught crossing the US border...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has appealed to China’s Xi Jinping to help end sanctions against Pyongyangfollowing his landmark summit with US President Donald Trump,...

First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday (June 28) made a second visit to meet undocumented child migrants as the United States struggles to contain a...

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he plans to announce his nominee to replace retiring US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on July 9,...

Michel Barnier invited UK negotiators back to Brussels next Monday, warning: "The time is very short." Talks continue over the terms of the UK's withdrawal...

US intelligence agencies believe North Korea has increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months and may try to...

Qatar Wednesday will launch an urgent case before the UN’s highest court against United Arab Emirates, accusing it of human rights violations after its Gulf...

The United States warned Tuesday that countries around the world must stop buying Iranian oil before Nov 4 or face a renewed round of American...

Floods and landslides caused by heavy rain over the weekend in Vietnam’s northern mountainous provinces haveclaimed 19 human lives, left 11 local people missing, and...

The Nicaraguan government and opposition, which is demanding the resignation of President Daniel Ortega, resumed talks Monday aimed at ending two months of unrest that...

A passenger train has derailed in Austria, leaving two carriages lying on their side and two people seriously injured, police said.Another 26 people sustained light...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won tightly-contested presidential polls, the election authority saidMonday, extending his 15-year grip on power as the opposition complained bitterly...

Syrian regime forces continued their offensive against Eastern Ghouta Sunday, a day after they cut off the rebel-held enclave’s largest town, pressing on with a...

Mao once said 'power grows out of the barrel of a gun' and the chairmanship of the world's largest armed forces – also assumed by...

 British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Thursday that a so-called hard Brexit should not hold any "terrors" and Britain would do "very well" operating...

A Turkish court has sentenced 25 journalists to jail for alleged links to a group the government blames for a failed coup attempt in July...

Washington: President Donald Trump on Thursday expressed a willingness to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May in response to Kim's invitation to...

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea's mountainous Southern Highlands on Wednesday killing at least 18 people, an official said, a week after a...

Australia and East Timor have signed a historic treaty on a permanent maritime border in the Timor Sea. The deal ends a decade-long dispute between...

New Zealand has sweltered through its hottest summer on record and can expect more of the same if climate change continues unabated, the government's scientific...

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has expressed his doubt over Rohingya repatriation, as the Myanmar government does not live up to its commitments.The finance minister made...

National People’s Party (NPP) President Conrad Sangma was sworn in as Meghalaya chief minister by Governor Ganga Prasad at Raj Bhavan on Tuesday.Eleven other ministers...

Homes across the UK are facing water supply problems - with thousands of people in Wales and south-east England urged to use as little as...

Tens of thousands of households across Britain suffered water supply problems on Monday after pipes burst when snow thawed and normal weather conditions returned to...

British pubs will be allowed to open late for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, described on Sunday as a day of national...

After days of freezing cold, heavy snowfall and biting blizzards, a big thaw is now under way in parts of the UK. And with the...

A third person has died in Australia after eating melon contaminated with listeria bacteria. Fifteen elderly people have now been infected in the outbreak, which...

Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition, which has the best chance of winning Italy's election today, wants to boot out 600,000 migrants and pump cash into Italian...

President of the European Council Donald Tusk is to ask Theresa May for "a better idea that would be as effective in preventing a hard...

Suu Kyi appears to have forgotten how she suffered when she was under house arrestClaiming that Aung San Suu Kyi has chosen to turn a...

The European Union is set to publish a legal draft of its Brexit withdrawal agreement for the first time, detailing the terms of the UK's...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has offered a one million euro reward for anyone who comes forward with information about the murder of an investigative...

As a U.N. ceasefire failed to take hold in Syria, Russia on Monday ordered a daily “humanitarian pause” to allow civilians to evacuate an embattled...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday responded to an overture from North Korea for talks with the United States, saying that will happen only “under...

Rival demonstrations by far-right and anti-fascist groups a week before Italy's general election have led to scuffles with police. Police in Milan used batons as...

Heavy snow is expected to hit most of the UK next week as a cold blast of air known as "the Beast from the East"...

Democrats on the US House Intelligence Committee have released a memo that counters Republican claims of bias in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in...

President Donald Trump is "not satisfied" with the progress made by Pakistan in its fight against terrorism and the US for the first time is...