US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has announced she is resigning - after nearly two years in the post.President Donald Trump appeared in the...

South Africa's finance minister Nhlanhla Nene has quit after admitting meeting members of the Gupta family, who have been accused of corruption.President Cyril Ramaphosa said...

Hurricane Michael has strengthened to a category three storm, with winds near 120mph (193km/h) as it churns towards the Florida coast, the National Hurricane Center...

Five months on from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s fairytale nuptials, the time has come for “the other” royal wedding – the one no one...

The death toll from a 5.9 earthquake that hit Haiti over the weekend rose to 15 people with 333 injured, authorities said Monday, as thousands...

A construction worker is dead and five co-workers are hospitalized with injuries after a three-story town house they were building in Dallas collapsed during a...

Turkish-backed rebels said Sunday they expected to finish withdrawing heavy weapons from a planned buffer zone in northwestern Syria within days under a deal to...

The Trump administration is moving to allow year-round sales of gasoline with higher blends of ethanol, a boon for Iowa and other farm states that...

Florida's governor mobilised National Guard troops and ordered Gulf Coast residents to evacuate as Hurricane Michael churned toward shore on Monday, with "life threatening" storm...

"One special seed" and months of care by an Oregon commercial pilot produced a massive pumpkin that tipped the scales at a global weigh-in Monday...

Tickets for next year's Glastonbury Festival sold out in just over half an hour. Organiser Emily Eavis tweeted to say a record number of people...

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck just off the northwest coast of Haiti late on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and causing damage to buildings in...

A pro-Russia party has won the most votes in Latvia following Saturday's general election.The Harmony party polled 19% with the pro-EU For Development party taking...

The far-right candidate and frontrunner in Brazil's presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, has vowed to tackle crime and reduce record high murder rates. On the eve...

US President Donald Trump's controversial nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, has been sworn in following weeks of rancorous debate. The Senate earlier backed...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Sunday warned that a tropical storm headed for the Florida Panhandle could become a Category 2 hurricane with winds up...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he hoped to accelerate a second summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump as he kicked off...

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near the northernmost tip of Haiti late on Saturday, injuring a number of people and causing some damage to buildings...

At a Boston technology conference last month, computer scientist Alex Halderman showed how easy it was to hack into an electronic voting machine and change...

Police in Mexico have arrested a couple suspected of involvement in the murder of at least 10 women, as well as the sale of a...

Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in Saturday to serve as an associate Supreme Court justice, delivering a major victory to President Donald Trump following a pitched...

Some 20,000 people marched through Edinburgh on Saturday calling for Scottish independence, officials said, less than six months before Britain’s planned departure from the European...

Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday accused China of military aggression, commercial theft and rising human rights violations as he cast the Asian power as...

Governments must provide "major" investment in flood risk reduction to save coastal cities around the world, a charity said Friday, as rising seas and sinking...

A white police officer who killed a black teenager four years ago in Chicago has been found guilty of second-degree murder.Jason Van Dyke shot Laquan...

The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to campaigners against rape in warfare, Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege.Ms Murad is an Iraqi Yazidi who was...

 U.S. Forest Service investigators have determined that a motor vehicle is to blame for sparking the massive, deadly California wildfire that prompted a nearly three-week...

Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the US Supreme Court appeared all but assured Friday after two key lawmakers signaled their support, in a major boost for...

The UK government has accused Russia's military intelligence service of being behind four high-profile cyber attacks.The National Cyber Security Centre says targets included firms in...

Leon Lederman, an experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles and coined the phrase "God particle," died...

An extremely rare bottle of whisky was sold for a new world record at auction in Edinburgh on Wednesday.The 60-year-old Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 was...

US police on Wednesday arrested a suspect after suspicious packages containing castor seeds – from which deadly ricin can be derived – were sent to...

 Two Sudanese military planes collided while landing at Khartoum international airport on Wednesday, forcing it to close for several hours, an airport spokesman said.The transport...

The US will pull out of a decades-old treaty with Iran which was used by Tehran as a basis for a case at the International...

The US Senate is expected to receive the FBI's report on allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, in the...

A team of ornithologists in Ecuador has identified a new species of hummingbird: a lovely blue-green creature that lives in a cold, barren highland area...

In the days leading up to a public allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to a college classmate, the judge and his...

Pret a Manger will list all ingredients, including allergens, on its freshly made products following the death of a teenager who had an allergic reaction...

The image of the United States has deteriorated further among its traditional allies after a year in which President Donald Trump ratcheted up his verbal...

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday that the European Union was not like the Soviet Union after her foreign secretary provoked anger by...

A poetry competition has been hit by controversy after the daughter of a far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician took part. Fourteen-year-old Ida Marie Muller,...

Melania Trump on Tuesday arrived in Ghana on the first leg of her maiden, solo tour of Africa that has been billed as a chance...

An American warship has sailed through waters off the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, the Pentagon said on Sunday, in the latest...

North Korea warned Washington through its state media Tuesday that a declaration ending the Korean War shouldn't be seen as a bargaining chip in denuclearization...

The Trump administration has denied restricting an FBI inquiry into sexual misconduct allegations made against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Democrats have been alarmed at...

At least seven people were shot dead and four were wounded on Sunday in a prison riot in Guatemala, according to local authorities, who said...

Melania Trump left Washington and her husband’s shadow Monday for a four-country tour of Africa that will give the glamorous and at times enigmatic first...

The tsunami that ravaged the Indonesian city of Palu was outsized compared to the earthquake that spawned it, but other factors including a long, narrow...

Nigerian migrants held in Libya were rescued after releasing a video from their cell that went viral on social media and caught the attention of...

Macedonians went to the polls on Sunday to vote on whether to re-name their country North Macedonia in a bid to settle a long-running row...