Jeremy Hunt has urged Tory leadership rival Boris Johnson not to be "a coward" about facing public scrutiny. Hunt said he was "not interested" in...

About 1,000 flights were cancelled or delayed in Dallas on Sunday night and more than 80,000 homes and businesses left without power early Monday, after...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday he wants to build a global coalition against Iran during urgent consultations in the Middle East, following a...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has visited the site of a building collapse which buried dozens as they slept.Regional officials said the death toll had...

Turkey's main opposition claimed a decisive victory on Sunday in Istanbul's re-run election, dealing one of the biggest blows to President Tayyip Erdogan during his...

China and the United States should be willing to make compromises in trade talks and not insist only on what each side wants, Chinese Vice...

Hundreds of thousands of people rallied Sunday in Prague to urge Prime Minister Andrej Babis to resign, assembling from across the Czech Republic for the...

President Donald Trump says he hesitated to back a possible 2024 presidential run by Vice President Mike Pence because he was caught off-guard by the...

Iran and the United States, locked in a tense standoff after the US withdrew from a nuclear deal, traded barbs Sunday the day before the...

In recent weeks, hackers believed to be working for the Iranian government have targeted U.S. government agencies, as well as sectors of the economy, including...

Twenty-two people were injured in the collapse of the seven-storey Chinese-owned project in the coastal town of Sihanoukville, west of the capital Phnom Penh.More than...

In a call with reporters earlier this week, Mark Morgan, the acting director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency would target...

Britain's leadership contest was rocked on Saturday by reports that police were called to a late-night "row" between frontrunner Boris Johnson and his partner, just...

US President Trump has said he does not want war but warned Iran it would face "obliteration" if conflict broke out. Speaking to NBC on...

Spain's Supreme Court considered on Friday whether to uphold a ruling that cleared five young men of gang-raping a teenager at a bull-running festival, concluding...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) on Friday adopted a new global treaty against violence and harassment in the workplace, sparked by the women's #MeToo movement.The...

Indonesia plans to tighten vetting of senior public servants amid fears that hardline Islamist ideology has permeated high levels of government, according to documents reviewed...

Italian prosecutors have complained to Switzerland about lengthy delays in obtaining evidence they have requested in an international corruption case involving oil firms Shell and...

A junior foreign office minister has been suspended pending an investigation after grabbing a female demonstrator by the neck and pushing her when a climate-change...

President Vladimir Putin is promising to boost spending on social programs as part of the government's modernization efforts.Speaking in an annual live call-in show Thursday,...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. drone on Thursday amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over its collapsing nuclear deal with world powers,...

New Zealand has launched a gun buy-back scheme in the wake of the deadly Christchurch mosque shootings, reports BBC.More than $208m New Zealand dollars (£108m,...

U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook on Wednesday described U.S. latest move in the Middle East as "defensive", reaffirming that Washington seeks a "comprehensive...

Rory Stewart has told the BBC he is talking to his leadership rival Michael Gove "about combining forces". The BBC's Norman Smith said that in...

Cuba's state security is pressuring dissidents to go into exile in its attempt to weaken opposition on the Communist-run island, a non-governmental human rights organization...

An Australian sperm donor is the father of an 11-year-old girl because it was understood he would be involved in her life, the nation's top...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ruled out negotiations with criminal gangs on Tuesday and vowed to go after their finances in a bid to reduce...

Guatemala has not yet committed to becoming a "safe third country" for US-bound migrants seeking asylum, but is analyzing with the United States how to...

A record 71 million people have been displaced worldwide from war, persecution and other violence, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday, an increase of more...

Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson increased his lead in the race to become Britain's next prime minister Tuesday in a Conservative Party vote that eliminated...

The United States and Iran said Tuesday they were not seeking war with each other as tensions simmered between the two in the Persian Gulf...

Some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have safely-managed drinking water, according to a new report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef)...

Former first lady Sandra Torres was in the lead after partial results early Monday from Guatemala's presidential election, following a tumultuous campaign that saw two...

The overall number of nuclear warheads in the world has declined in the past year but nations are modernizing their arsenals, a report published Monday...

Electricity services have been restored to all of Argentina and Uruguay following a massive blackout that left around 48 million people without power on Sunday,...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May is considering a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at this month's G20 summit in Japan in an effort...

A woman has drowned in Lake Geneva when her sightseeing boat sank as a violent storm battered parts of Switzerland on Saturday, police said.A man...

The Tunisian trawler radioed in for help as it passed the migrant boat in distress out at sea. But with the packed craft still adrift...

Hong Kong was braced for another mass ally Sunday as public anger seethed following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over an extradition law, despite...

Saudi forces on Saturday intercepted a Yemeni rebel drone targeting the southern city of Abha, a Riyadh-led military coalition said, the latest in a series...

At least one Washington state waterfront landowner has said yes to a request to allow dead gray whales to decompose on their property.So many gray...

Tires on a United Airlines jet blew out as it landed at New Jersey’s Newark airport on Saturday, causing flight delays but injuring none of...

The leader of Britain's main opposition party has questioned whether the government had evidence to back up its accusations that Iran was behind attacks on...

Thousands of Venezuelans have rushed to cross into Peru in a bid to beat the introduction of tougher migration laws. Under new laws introduced on...

Six Belgian children of Islamic State members were brought back to Belgium on Friday from camps in Syria where US-backed militia are holding thousands of...

Four of the two dozen Democrats vying for the party's 2020 US presidential nomination will appear at a Black Economic Alliance forum in Charleston, South...

President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Iran for attacks on oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but he also held out hope that...

Jordan's King Abdullah reacts angrily to any suggestion that he might accept a US deal to end the Arab-Israeli conflict that would make his country...

The German government is calling for an investigation into the "extraordinarily worrying" suspected attacks on two tankers near the Strait of Hormuz.It also says it...

Brazil's Supreme Court voted Thursday to criminalize homophobia, an important step for sexual minorities in one of the most dangerous countries for LGBT people in...