The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday after the virus spread this week...

In a major break with a longtime ally, the Trump administration on Wednesday said Turkey is being kicked out of an American-led fighter aircraft program...

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo a "public health emergency of international concern".The move may encourage...

Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be Britain’s next prime minister, suggested Wednesday that the EU would bear some responsibility if he took his country out...

The US House of Representatives formally condemned Donald Trump on Tuesday for xenophobic attacks on four minority Democratic lawmakers and hostile language targeting immigrants, as...

HIV-related deaths last year fell to around 770,000 - about 33 per cent lower than in 2010 - the United Nations said on Tuesday, but...

As uncannily realistic "deep fake" videos proliferate online, including one recently retweeted by Donald Trump, journalism schools are scrambling to adapt to an era of...

The United States on Tuesday banned visits by Myanmar’s army chief and three other top officers due to their role in the “ethnic cleansing” of...

Germany's Ursula von der Leyen has been narrowly elected president of the EU Commission following a secret ballot among MEPs.The centre-right defence minister will replace...

World hunger is on the rise in absolute number and more than 820 million people were hungry in 2018, a UN report said Monday.After decades...

US President Donald Trump came under fire from Democrats and even some members of his own Republican Party on Monday after launching an extraordinary xenophobic...

Singing, chanting and lying on the ground in the road, hundreds of people demonstrated on Monday against the construction of a giant telescope on a...

The Philippine president has signed a bill into law penalizing a range of acts of sexual harassment including catcalling, wolf-whistling and persistent telling of sexual...

A fire in the Sian Ka'an nature reserve on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula spread to more than 6,000 acres (2,500 hectares) on Monday, with just 30%...

The US may approve licenses for companies to re-start new sales to Huawei in as little as two weeks, according to a senior US official,...

Buckingham Palace released a statement from Queen Elizabeth II after the final."Prince Philip and I send our warmest congratulations to the England men's cricket team...

Starkly injecting race into his criticism of liberal Democrats, President Donald Trump said Sunday that four congresswomen of color should go back to the "broken...

Iran's president says his country is ready to negotiate with the United States if Washington lifts its economic sanctions.Hassan Rouhani's official website on Sunday quoted...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday put European military cooperationat the heart of the Bastille Day parade at a time of growing tensions with the...

The leader of Turkish Cypriots on the ethnically divided island of Cyprus has renewed a proposal to establish a joint committee with Greek Cypriots to...

Islamic extremists blew up the gate of a Somali hotel with a car bomb and took over the building for more than 14 hours, leaving...

Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK's former ambassador to the US.Sir...

A power failure in New York has halted subway trains and trapped people in lifts.The New York Fire Department said it was tackling a fire...

New Zealanders have started handing over their semi-automatic weapons as part of a buyback scheme following a ban after the Christchurch attacks. Gun reforms were...

Officials began to clean up a massive oil spill Friday that dumped nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water into a California canyon, making it...

Former Vice President Joe Biden, in his first major foreign policy address as a Democratic presidential candidate, on Thursday blasted US President Donald Trump's performance...

French President Emmanuel Macron will on Sunday (Jul 14) seek to showcase Europe's defence capabilities by putting European military cooperation at the heart of a...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in the United States on Thursday on a trip that has angered Beijing, warning that democracy must be defended and...

South Africa will shortly deploy a battalion of soldiers to help police quell a surge in violence in gang-infested parts of Cape Town, a step...

Armed Iranian boats attempted to seize a British tanker in strategic Gulf waters on Wednesday but were driven off by a Royal Navy frigate, CNN...

One of the oldest survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack has died at age 103.Doug Iscovitz says his father, Joseph Iscovitz, died Tuesday at a...

Aftershocks of last week's big earthquakes are still rumbling beneath the California desert, but seismologists say the probability of large quakes continues to decline.The U.S....

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Wednesday officially named his new Cabinet, a mix of members of the military government he headed after leading a...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered an investigation into France’s planned tax on technology companies, a probe that could lead to the United States...

A senior general has said the US wants to create an international military coalition to safeguard waters around Iran and Yemen, reports the BBC.Marine General...

The United Nations human rights expert who conducted an independent probe into the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday urged the US...

A carbon monoxide leak at a Canadian hotel on Tuesday sent 46 guests to the hospital and left 15 of them in critical condition, firefighters...

US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday threatened he would veto a massive defense bill being considered by the House of Representatives, saying it provides...

The number of migrants detained after entering the US across the southern border fell 28 percent in June from May as both the United States...

Danish police have arrested 28 people in Copenhagen for riding electric scooters while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.Over the weekend 24 people were...

A slow-moving rainstorm Monday washed out roads, stranded drivers and soaked basements, including the White House's, during a chaotic morning commute in the national capital...

Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday said a widely loathed proposal to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland “is dead” — but again...

The United States announced fresh duties on some Mexican and Chinese steel goods on Monday, saying those countries helped their manufacturers with unfair subsidies.The decision...

Some 464,000 homicides were recorded around the world in 2017, far more than the number pf people killed in armed conflicts and terrorist attacks, a...

Britain's ambassador to the United States described the Trump administration as "diplomatically clumsy and inept" and said he doubted it would become "substantially more normal,"...

Germany's struggling Deutsche Bank said Sunday it would cut 18,000 jobs by 2022, downsizing its volatile investment banking division in a restructuring aimed at restoring...

Golden Dawn, the far-right, anti-immigrant party that had shocked Greek politics by evolving from a marginal, violent neo-Nazi group into Greece's third-largest party during the...

Pope Francis on Sunday called for "humanitarian corridors" to help rescue migrants in response to an air strike last week that killed dozens in a...

The top United States diplomat on North Korea heads to Europe for talks on removing nuclear weapons from the Asian peninsula, the State Department said...

Greeks have begun voting in the first parliamentary election since their country emerged from three successive international bailouts.The vote is held three months earlier than...