A prominent Ukrainian anti-corruption activist has died, three months after she was injured in an acid attack. Kateryna Handzyuk, 33, suffered burns over 40% of...

Race-baiting allegations have mired the homestretch of the US mid-term elections, turning it into one of the ugliest campaigns in recent times.US networks have withdrawn...

Thousands of Central American migrants traveling in a caravan arrived in the Mexican capital Monday and began to fill up a sports stadium, still hundreds...

The UK government has been warned to stick to its commitment to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.Irish Foreign Minister Simon...

Italy's government will call a confidence vote in the upper house Senate on its security bill, which has generated tensions within the coalition between the...

The first Central American migrants from a caravan traveling through Mexico towards the United States in hopes of seeking asylum arrived in Mexico City, taking...

France kicks off a week of World War I commemorations from Sunday with some 80 leaders from around the globe preparing to fly in for...

Storms lashing Sicily have killed at least 12 people with torrential floods, Italian authorities said as the country's leader headed Sunday to the stricken Mediterranean...

Britain would remain in a temporary customs union with the EU, avoiding a hard Irish border, as part of a new deal being thrashed out...

After boasting about the economy and raising fears over immigration, US President Donald Trump is facing pushback from his predecessor Barack Obama, who is taking...

Voters in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia have taken part in a referendum on whether to remain part of France or become independent.The...

A number of notable races are taking place on Tuesday  in the US midterm elections, when Americans go to the polls to elect governors and...

More than 3,200 Central Americans who had been heading towards the United States have applied to Mexico for asylum over the past two weeks, the...

Twitter deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting in Tuesday's US election and wrongly appeared to be from Democrats,...

Former president Barack Obama on Friday decried as a "political stunt" Donald Trump's plan to send thousands of US soldiers to the Mexican border to...

President Donald Trump said he intends to take executive action next week to end the "abuse" of the US asylum system, a plan that could...

The whirring of a low-flying Soviet Union-era war plane signaled Russia's uninvited arrival to NATO's biggest military exercise since the end of the Cold War.Marines...

Two women have been killed and five others injured after a gunman opened fire in a Florida hot yoga studio.Scott Paul Beierle killed Nancy Van...

Thousands of migrants from Central America heading for the US-Mexico border have had an offer of free bus transport to Mexico City withdrawn.The governor of...

A gunman killed two people and wounded five others at a yoga studio in Florida's capital before killing himself Friday evening, officials said.Tallahassee Police Chief...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet approved draft legislation on Friday to open the door to more overseas blue-collar workers in sectors grappling with labour shortages,...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday it would be a "handful more weeks" before the United States had enough evidence to impose sanctions...

An Israeli official on Friday called the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul "despicable" but said that cementing ties with...

Early turnout by young voters has surged ahead of Tuesday's congressional midterm elections, powered by gains in states whose voters are pivotal to Democrats' chances...

British police said on Friday they had launched an investigation into alleged anti-Semitic hate crimes within the opposition Labour party, whose leadership has faced criticism...

South Sudan on Friday freed rebel leader Riek Machar's spokesman and a South African adviser from prison, a Reuters witness and senior government official said,...

Millions of people in Mexico City were without water on Wednesday, and expected to wait at least four days as authorities undertake maintenance work on...

Police investigating the mysterious deaths of two Saudi Arabian sisters whose bound bodies washed up on New York City's waterfront on Oct. 24 say it...

Two months ago, Marisol Hernandez's husband was gunned down by gangsters for refusing to work for them. For the pregnant 23-year-old, that was the last...

The first manned mission to the International Space Station since a Russian rocket failed to launch earlier this month may take off on Dec 3,...

Angela Merkel is good at keeping a secret. The decision by the German Chancellor to step down as chairman of her Christian Democratic party caught...

Two people were killed and another two injured in a helicopter crash in the northern part of the US state of New York on Tuesday,...

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...

Defense attorneys for the man charged in the failed pipe bombing of the New York subway last year have asked a federal judge to quiz...

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's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan threw rubber gumboots on Tuesday as children cheered in a competition in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland,...

The death toll from fierce storms battering Italy has risen to nine, civil protection authorities said Tuesday, as wild weather caused schools to close and...

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck central New Zealand on Tuesday afternoon, which was widely felt across the country, but unlikely to cause major damage and fatalities,...

The global population of fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals has declined 60 percent since 1970, according to the WWF’s ‘Living Planet’ report released Tuesday.WWF...

Rain, wind and an earthquake elsewhere in the country didn't seem to dampen the enthusiasm of New Zealanders who turned out to see Prince Harry...

A nurse serving a life sentence for two murders is going on trial on charges that he killed a further 100 patients at two hospitals...

The rabbis of the Pittsburgh synagogue where a gunman massacred 11 worshipers during Sabbath prayers urged mourners at an interfaith memorial service on Sunday to...

Hundreds of police backed by a helicopter on Monday raided dozens of apartments in central Barcelona used for selling and consuming heroin and other drugs,...

Exposure to toxic air both indoors and out kills some 600,000 children under the age of 15 each year, the World Health Organization warned Monday....

Germany's Angela Merkel says she will step down as chancellor in 2021, following recent election setbacks. "I will not be seeking any political post after...

The Pentagon is sending over 5,200 troops to the border with Mexico as thousands of Central American migrants head north through Mexico.General Terrence O'Shaughnessy said...

Construction of a partially built new airport for Mexico City is to be halted after it was rejected in a referendum, President-elect Andres Manuel López...

Brazil's far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro says he wants the country's best-known anti-corruption judge to be justice minister or to serve on the Supreme Court.Sergio Moro...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday unveils Istanbul's new international airport, which his government claims will be the world's largest.One of the president's favored...

The president of Poland repeated Sunday his country's demand for Germany to pay reparations over World War II, days before ministers from Berlin and Warsaw...