Michael Avenatti, lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels in her suit against President Donald Trump, has been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, police in...

An Australian man has been found guilty of murdering six people and injuring 27 others in a vehicle attack in Melbourne.James Gargasoulas, 28, deliberately drove...

Late-night UK-EU talks in Brussels ended with "optimism on both sides", government sources say, although no final Brexit deal has been agreed. The Northern Ireland...

The US state of Arizona has elected its first female senator, after Democrat Kyrsten Sinema beat Republican Martha McSally in a tight race.Ms Sinema is...

Canadian intelligence has heard an audio recording of the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed. "Canada has...

Australian researchers have found the strongest evidence so far that obesity is linked to depression.A new study published on Tuesday by the University of South...

The death of a 13-year-old boy who was knocked out during a kickboxing match in Thailand has sparked debate over whether to ban matches involving...

Shortly after 9/11, the CIA considered using a drug it thought might work like a truth serum and force terror suspects to give up information...

Cypriot officials opened two new border crossings Monday for the first time in eight years, the latest push for peace by the two sides after...

A Briton has died after contracting rabies while on holiday in Morocco, health officials have said.Public Health England said the victim became infected after being...

Multiple cabinet ministers expressed significant doubts about the prime minister's preferred Brexit plan from the start, the BBC has learned. Parts of Theresa May's plan...

Several thousand Central American migrants heading for the U.S. border arrived in the western Mexico city of Guadalajara with help from truckers and other motorists...

The dead were found in burned-out cars, in the smoldering ruins of their homes, or next to their vehicles, apparently overcome by smoke and flames...

U.S. analysts said Monday they have located 13 secret North Korean missile development sites, underscoring the challenge that the Trump administration faces in trying to...

Britain and the European Union appeared to be inching toward agreement on Brexit on Monday, but British Prime Minister Theresa May faced intensifying pressure from...

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted distant warning signal no two as the cyclonic storm 'Gaja'...

More than 200 people have now died in the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to health officials.About half the...

Voters in rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Sunday elected new leaders after the assassination of a top separatist as Kiev urged the West to slap new...

The number of people killed when suicide bombers and gunmen struck a popular hotel in Somalia's capital has risen to 39 from the initial 22,...

Officials from Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and Britain have listened to audio recordings related to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at...

An exchange of fire erupted during an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing six Palestinians and an Israeli soldier, officials said,...

Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Sunday he had a brief but good conversation with US leader Donald Trump at World War I centenary events...

The cause of a military plane crash that left nine people dead outside Savannah, Georgia, was pilot error, according to a report by the U.S....

The death toll in the wildfires raging through California has risen to 25, according to officials.This comes after 14 more bodies were discovered in or...

An autopsy determined that the gunman who killed 12 people at a Southern California bar died from a self-inflicted gunshot, police said Saturday.Ian David Long,...

US President Donald Trump lashed out at his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, after arriving in Paris to commemorate the end of World War One. On...

Former US first lady Michelle Obama says she can "never forgive" Donald Trump for questioning her husband's American citizenship, saying the president and other "birthers"...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a state visit to Singapore on Tuesday in conjunction with the 33rd ASEAN Summit and related summits. This is...

Before hopping on a plane to Paris on Friday, President Trump insulted some more reporters, threatened that others may have their White House credentials pulled...

Key results in this week's US elections hung in the balance Thursday, two days after polling, with accusations flying of voter fraud and corruption, as...

US President Trump administration blocks asylum claims by those crossing border illegally Homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker issue new...

The accident, which also injured 80 people, occurred when two long- distance buses collided along the highway. Government has since declared the crash a national...

Upcoming parliamentary elections in Bahrain have been deprived of any legitimacy by a ban on opposition parties, legislators in the US, UK, Ireland and the...

Austria has a launched a probe into an army colonel suspected of spying for Russia for several decades, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Friday, the latest...

At least nine people have been killed and more than 150,000 evacuated as two big wildfires rage in California, officials sayFive people of the dead...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out Wednesday after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump, who inserted...

Millions of people in Europe, North America and Australia will die from superbug infections unless countries priorities fighting the growing threat posed by bacteria immune...

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer reacts after declaring victory at her midterm election night party in Detroit. -ReutersThis year's crucial mid-term elections were always...

"Single-use" was named the Collins Dictionary word of the year on Wednesday, following a four-fold increase in usage since 2013 in a reflection of increased...

A Colorado man, Chris Watts, has pleaded guilty to killing his pregnant wife and daughters.The district attorney agreed to drop the death penalty in exchange...

Michigan voters on Tuesday made their state the first in the Midwest to legalize recreational marijuana, passing a ballot measure that will allow people 21...

Voters in Minnesota and Michigan on Tuesday elected the first two Muslim women to serve in the US Congress, a former refugee who fled Somalia's...

Dozens of people, mostly school pupils, have been kidnapped from a boarding school in the west of Cameroon.At least 79 students and three others, including...

When Prince Charles, who turns 70 next week, becomes king on the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth, he will have waited longer than any...

Spain's maritime rescue service says at least 17 people have died trying to reach Spain in boats departing from North Africa.The service says Tuesday that...

As many as eight people might have died in Marseille in two building collapses, officials said Tuesday after the first body was pulled out from...

Americans have begun voting in nationwide elections that are being seen as a referendum on Donald Trump's presidency.Polling stations opened on the East Coast amid...

Macron said Europe needed to reduce its dependence on American might during week-long World War I centenary commemorationsFrench President Emmanuel Macron called Tuesday for a...

Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates had his hands full on-stage in Beijing on Tuesday, showing a jar of human faces. The stunt was...

An Australian man has died after being attacked by a shark at a popular tourist spot in Queensland.The location - Cid Harbour in the Whitsunday...