A defiant British government doubled down Sunday, insisting it would leave the European Union in 11 days' time despite parliament forcing a reluctant prime minister...

Italy's strongman Matteo Salvini is to hold a key rally in Rome Saturday aimed at re-launching the Italian right and making a power-grab for the...

Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that under the current plan all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq, and that the military will...

The Syrian army on Saturday captured a previous U.S.-run base in the northeastern province of Hasakah, as part of an ongoing military deployment in Kurdish-held...

The British government has formally asked the European Union for a delay to Brexit — but also sent a letter from Prime Minister Boris Johnson...

Teen activist Greta Thunberg rallied with climate change protesters in Canada's oil-rich province of Albert on Friday, as oil workers counter-protested by honking the horns...

Chile's president declared a state of emergency in Santiago Friday night and gave the military responsibility for security after a day of violent protests over...

Negotiations aimed at reaching a major settlement in the nation's opioid litigation reached an impasse Friday.Key differences were between state attorneys general and lawyers representing...

Mexican security forces aborted an attempt to capture a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman after finding themselves outgunned in a ferocious...

Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters donned cartoon character masks and mocked China's leaders while forming human chains in defiance of a ban on face coverings at...

The State Department has completed its internal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of private email and found violations by 38 people,...

The brother of the Honduran president was convicted Friday in a massive drug conspiracy case in New York City after prosecutors said he relied on...

A British family detained in the US after crossing the border from Canada intentionally entered the country illegally, officials have said.They said the vehicle was...

The date for the world’s first commercial space flight is not even confirmed yet, but future passengers’ Star Trek-like outfits are ready and waiting.Virgin Galactic...

Greece announced a campaign on Wednesday to tackle plastic pollution and promised to stop the use of single-use plastics by June 2020.“39 tonnes of plastic...

Barack Obama is urging Canadians to re-elect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, an apparently unprecedented endorsement of a candidate in a Canadian election by a former...

The Satanic Temple, recognized as a church in the United States, has the right to gather at the US Naval Academy on the condition it...

“Don’t be a fool,” Donald Trump warned his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an extraordinary letter sent the day Turkey launched its incursion into northeastern...

Brussels hopes to wake up to a Brexit breakthrough Wednesday as EU and British negotiators worked hard through the night on a draft agreement.The pound...

Catalan separatists on Tuesday blocked streets and train tracks in protest against Spain’s jailing of nine of their leaders, as the Spanish government hit out...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Turkey on Wednesday amid...

US lawmakers have supported Hong Kong protesters by passing a bill aimed at upholding human rights in the city.The bill - which still needs to...

A third of the world's nearly 700 million children under five years old are undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems as a consequence,...

Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking...

At least 13 police officers were killed and nine others wounded Monday in an ambush by gunmen in the Mexican state of Michoacan, a western...

A French court on Monday sentenced five members of an all-female jihadist cell to between five and 30 years in prison over a failed bid...

Protests have erupted in Barcelona after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison.The separatists were convicted...

The US police officer who shot dead a black woman in her bedroom on Saturday has been held and charged with murder.Police in Forth Worth,...

Syria's Kurds said Syrian government forces agreed Sunday to help them fend off Turkey's invasion — a major shift in alliances that came after President...

Rescue crew dug through mudslides and searched near swollen rivers Monday after a typhoon caused serious damage in central and northern Japan, leaving dozens of...

US President Donald Trump said Saturday that he is an "island of one" for removing US forces from northeastern Syria.But he remained steadfast and defended...

Pope Francis on Sunday declared five people saints, including Cardinal John Henry Newman, a leading 19th century Anglican who converted to Catholicism and became one...

Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno and leaders of the country's indigenous peoples have struck a deal to cancel a disputed austerity package and end nearly two...

A large section of a Hard Rock Hotel under construction beside New Orleans' historic French Quarter collapsed Saturday amid blinding dust and flying debris, killing...

President Donald Trump on Saturday stood behind personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, one of his highest-profile and most vocal defenders, amid reports that federal prosecutors in...

Officials would not reveal the nature of the threat. It resulted in a 90-minute delay before Trudeau appeared before about 2,000 supporters who had turned...

Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday the decision to receive additional U.S. troops, Saudi Press Agency reported.The decision Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday the decision to...

Four Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Saturday in airstrikes on their hideouts in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial official said.Iraqi warplanes...

As a police van sped past them, the 90-year-old woman and her 60-year-old daughter raised their fists, pointed their thumbs very deliberately down and yelled,...

The acting head of US Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, has resigned after six months in the post.In a tweet, President Donald Trump said Mr McAleenan...

A panel of international aviation regulators found that Boeing withheld key information about the 737 Max from pilots and regulators, and the Federal Aviation Administration...

Thousands of indigenous representatives from the Amazon region joined anti-austerity protests here on Friday, amid bleak prospects of hopes for talks between protest leaders and...

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world is more divided than ever, thus dialogue is urgently needed to build a more...

A Frenchman suspected of killing his wife and four children in 2011 has been arrested at Glasgow Airport.The AFP news agency said Xavier Dupont de...

Thousands of anti-government protesters in Haiti have clashed with police who stopped them marching on the home of President Jovenel Moïse.Weeks of protests over an...

Israel's Antiquities Authority on Sunday said that researchers have discovered the remains of a large, 5,000-year-old city that sheds new light on experts' understanding of...

As Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to investigate one of Donald Trump's main political rivals, a group of individuals with ties to...

Two men opened fire inside a bar in Kansas City, Kansas, early Sunday, killing four people and wounding five others in a shooting believed to...

As the U.S. warned allies around the world that Chinese tech giant Huawei was a security threat, the FBI was making the same point quietly...

Thousands of people prepared to descend on Paris on Sunday to protest a government plan to let single women and lesbians become pregnant with fertility...