The building where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born in Austria will be turned into a police station, officials have announced.Interior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn said...

The U.S. Senate, in a unanimous vote, passed legislation on Tuesday aimed at protecting human rights in Hong Kong amid China’s crackdown on a pro-democracy...

A ferry crew found 25 migrants in a refrigerated container on a boat sailing from the Netherlands to Britain on Tuesday, emergency services said.The cargo...

Two prison guards on duty when Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide were charged Tuesday over their alleged failure to monitor him, the latest development in...

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn traded blows Tuesday over Brexit and the health system as they vied for votes during...

A bridge collapse that killed two people in south-western France was apparently caused by a lorry that weighed too much, prosecutors say.Two vehicles plunged into...

Michelle Obama marked one year since publication of her best-selling memoir at a book signing in the nation’s capital Monday.“It’s so good to meet you,”...

Twenty-four soldiers have been killed in an attack by militants in eastern Mali, the country's army has said.Another 29 were also injured during a joint...

Heavy smoke has covered Australia's largest city, Sydney, as scores of bushfires rage across the region.Strong winds brought smoke overnight from an inland blaze north...

The US has shifted its position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, no longer viewing them as inconsistent with international law.US Secretary of...

Hundreds of pages of purported Iranian intelligence documents have come to light that detail Iran’s massive influence in neighboring Iraq, The New York Times and...

Gunmen who killed four men and wounded six others at a backyard football-viewing party of mostly ethnic Hmong had targeted the residence in Fresno, California,...

Pope Francis, who years ago hoped to be a missionary in Japan, travels to the sites of the world’s only atomic attacks this week seeking...

Libya's Immigration Control Department in the eastern city of Benghazi on Sunday announced the deportation of 62 illegal immigrants to Chad and Sudan.The immigrants were...

The Cairo-based Arab League (AL) praised on Sunday the recent UN decision to extend the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...

The United States and South Korea said on Sunday they will postpone upcoming military drills in an effort to bolster a stalled peace push with...

Four more people have died in protests in Bolivia, an international monitor reported Saturday, as the UN rights chief warned that excessive force by police...

Hong Kong police fired tear gas on Sunday morning at protesters intent on keeping their stranglehold on a major tunnel as pro-democracy activists vowed to...

Transcripts released Saturday in the impeachment inquiry show Ambassador Gordon Sondland playing a central role in President Donald Trump’s effort to push Ukraine to conduct...

Elizabeth Warren pushed back against critics of her newly released plan to phase in implementation of a single-payer health care system, insisting Saturday that she...

About a quarter of a million Czechs gathered on the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that brought an end to decades of communist rule...

Six men have been charged after a shooting at a New Jersey high school football game that critically wounded a 10-year-old boy and sent players...

The gangsters trawling Nuevo Laredo know just what they’re looking for: men and women missing their shoelaces.Those are migrants who made it to the United...

Police in Paris arrested more than 100 people as protests to mark the first anniversary of the anti-government yellow vest movement turned violent.Yellow vest (gilets...

Five supporters of former president Evo Morales were killed Friday in violent clashes between protesters and security forces in central Bolivia, according to an AFP...

The teenager who shot dead two classmates at his California high school before turning the gun on himself died in a hospital, the sheriff’s department...

Chileans are accustomed to seeing violent clashes between police and demonstrators but a new trend is leaving them shaken: the blinding of protesters by shotgun...

Australia braced on Friday for strong winds that began to whip up bushfires in two states, potentially adding to a toll of more than 270...

Waters are rising in Venice where the tide is reaching exceptional levels just three days after the Italian lagoon city experienced its worst flooding in...

People who knew the 16-year-old boy suspected of killing two students in a burst of gunfire at a high school outside Los Angeles described him...

A Roman Catholic bishop named by Pope Francis to investigate the church’s response to clergy sexual abuse in Buffalo, New York, has himself been accused...

Spain's visiting King Felipe VI on Wednesday granted the historian of Havana Eusebio Leal his country's highest civilian honor.Leal received the Grand Cross of the...

U.S. stocks closed mixed on Wednesday as investors digested Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's latest testimony.The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 92.10 points, or 0.33...

Moments before House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff could welcome witnesses to the first public hearing of the impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump took to...

Australians on Wednesday began sifting through the ashes of hundreds of bushfires that have ravaged the country, relieved that their worst fears were unrealized but...

Israeli aircraft struck Islamic Jihad targets throughout the Gaza Strip on Wednesday while the militant group rained scores of rockets into Israel for a second...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Tuesday met with the United Nations envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame to discuss ways to resolve the crisis in...

The closed doors of the Trump impeachment investigation are swinging wide open.When the gavel strikes at the start of the House hearing Wednesday morning, America...

Britain's failure to publish a parliamentary report on alleged Russian meddling is "inexplicable and shameful", former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday. The report...

Bolivia's ousted president Evo Morales was flying to political asylum in Mexico on Monday night, the latest step the once-beloved leader's rapid fall, while military...

Britain's opposition Labour Party said on Tuesday it was subject to a large-scale cyber attack on its digital platforms but that it was confident no...

Tens of thousands of Australians took shelter on Tuesday after authorities warned it was too late for them to leave their homes as bushfires raged...

An American submarine that went missing in World War Two has been rediscovered at the bottom of the East China sea.The USS Grayback and its...

A vast area of Australia's east coast - including Sydney - is bracing itself for one the nation's worst ever bushfire threats.More than 60 blazes...

Bolivia’s outgoing president Evo Morales announced his departure for asylum in Mexico on Twitter just after 9.30pm (0130 GMT) on Monday night, vowing to return...

Spain's Socialist premier Pedro Sanchez emerged as winner but weakened from Sunday's repeat election that propelled the far-right Vox into third place in a result...

The United States has urged Iraq to hold early polls and carry out electoral reform, after a rights group warned a deadly crackdown on anti-government...

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit southeast France on Monday, injuring four people, while French utility EDF said it was carrying out regulatory checks at its...

At least three people are dead and four missing in "unprecedented" bushfires in Australia.On Saturday, the fire emergency's second day, officials warned the death toll...

U.S. President Donald Trump will discuss burden-sharing and security issues with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg next week in Washington D.C., the White House said...