Members of a British family have been branded ‘worse than pigs’ and face deportation from New Zealand after a spree of bad behaviour that left...

Big Pacific storms are set to dump up to seven feet (2.1 meters) of snow in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains and several inches of rain...

Extreme poverty in Latin America hit its highest level for nine years in 2017, according to a report by the UN's Economic Commission for Latin...

China has rejected accusations from Canada that it is arbitrarily applying a death sentence to a Canadian convicted of drug smuggling.China's foreign ministry warned Canadian...

A Saudi teenager who fled her family and claimed asylum in Canada has said the journey was "worth the risk" so she could live a...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he told the king and crown prince of Saudi Arabia on Monday that the Trump administration expects the...

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death in a sudden retrial of a drug smuggling case and Beijing said that it has denied...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will force a second parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal despite facing defeat, The Sun reported on Monday.The British parliament...

The scent of burgers, fries and victory wafted through the stately White House on Monday as President Donald Trump saluted college football's Clemson Tigers for...

A winter snowstorm blamed for the deaths of at least seven people in road accidents across the United States Midwest rolled into the mid-Atlantic states...

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who is close to President Donald Trump, says he's been pushing the president to reopen the government for a few weeks...

Prime Minister Theresa May will say on Monday that lawmakers blocking Brexit is now a more likely outcome than Britain leaving the European Union without...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ruled out calling an early general election, setting the stage for the nation to go to the polls in...

Former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, and Obama-era Cabinet member Julian Castro was expected yesterday to launch his bid to become the US' first Hispanic...

Three men have been killed in an avalanche near the Austrian ski resort of Lech am Arlberg, local police say. A fourth person is missing....

The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened an inquiry in 2017 into whether US President Donald Trump was working on behalf of Russia, The New York...

Macedonia late Friday fulfilled its part of a historic deal that will pave its way to NATO membership and normalize relations with neighboring Greece, after...

The ruling coalition of Congo's outgoing President Joseph Kabila has won a large majority of national assembly seats, the electoral commission announced early Saturday, while...

Twelve people were killed and two others injured Thursday in a terrorist attack in Burkina Faso's northern province of Soum, the country's security ministry announced...

Macedonian politicians voted on Friday to change the country’s name to ‘Republic of North Macedonia’, settling a decades-long row with Greece and paving the way...

A double decker bus ripped open when it struck a bus shelter in the Canadian capital on Friday, killing three people and injuring at least...

A Saudi woman who fled her family and became stranded at Bangkok's main airport is flying to Canada after being granted asylum status.Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun,...

An influential Sudanese imam had to be removed from a mosque in the capital, Khartoum, after worshippers confronted him for not leading protests against embattled...

Wisconsin police have charged a 21-year-old man with murdering a 13-year-old girl's parents last October so he could abduct her.Jake Thomas Patterson was arrested on...

Hundreds of thousands of US government workers have missed their first payday of the year as the partial shutdown of federal agencies bites deeper.Employees such...

With less than three months until Britain leaves the European Union, activists in Labor's industrial heartland, which voted heavily for Brexit, are demanding one thing...

Four women held a topless protest in Sydney on Thursday to support runaway Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, as Australia began considering her bid to...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly told the leader of his only major ally, China, that he wants to "achieve results" on the...

A Philippine court on Thursday held a former bank manager guilty on eight counts of money laundering, the first conviction in one of the world’s...

Guatemala's highest court issued a ruling Wednesday blocking President Jimmy Morales' decision to unilaterally end a U.N. anti-corruption commission.The commission, known by its Spanish initials...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has laughed off a Photoshop fail found in a portrait that was on his website. The photo of Morrison and...

The driver whose transport truck crashed into a hockey team bus in Canada, killing 16 people, pleaded guilty Tuesday to all charges against him.Thirteen others...

President Donald Trump made a somber televised plea for border wall funding Tuesday night, seeking an edge in his shutdown battle with congressional Democrats as...

US President Donald Trump is set to argue that an immigration "crisis" requires his long-promised wall along the Mexican border. Trump will make his case...

Thailand's immigration police chief met Tuesday with officials of the Saudi Embassy in Bangkok, and said the officials told him they are satisfied with how...

For some inmates of the Manila City Jail, making the bed means mopping up sludgy puddles, unfolding a square of cardboard on the tile floor...

Pope Francis vowed justice for victims of clerical sex abuse Monday (Jan 7), describing paedophilia as one of the "vilest" crimes ahead of a historic...

The U.N. Security Council has put off a planned session on Congo and its closely watched presidential election as the country continues waiting for delayed...

President Donald Trump is taking over the nation's airwaves Tuesday night to argue his case for a U.S.-Mexico border wall — and Democrats are not...

Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank, announced Monday he is resigning at the end of January.Kim's unexpected departure three years before his...

Britain's battle over Brexit resumes Monday when parliament returns from its Christmas break to debate and - most likely - defeat Prime Minister Theresa May's...

Four people were killed Sunday in a mass shooting in the northern Honduran department of Atlantidain.The four victims were heading west to work as coffee...

A suspected drunken driver heading the wrong way on Interstate 75 in Kentucky struck a vehicle carrying five family members from Michigan early Sunday, killing...

The government of Japan and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) concluded an agreement on Monday which will provide US$ 5 million to support...

Three people have died in Greece as stormy weather and freezing temperatures gripped most of the country, officials said Sunday. The bodies of two elderly...

President Donald Trump stood by his demands for funding for a border wall Sunday as another round of shutdown talks failed to break an impasse,...

A powerful winter storm unleashed mudslides in Southern California wildfire burn areas and trapped motorists on a major highway, and the northern part of the...

British PM Theresa May has said the Commons vote on her Brexit deal will "definitely" go ahead next week.She told the BBC she was seeking...

Human Rights Watch has urged Thai authorities to halt the planned deportation of an 18-year-old Saudi woman who says she is fleeing her family and...

The UN Security Council is expressing regret at Somalia's decision to expel a U.N. envoy who questioned the arrest of an extremist group defector-turned-political candidate.The...