Democrats marched the impeachment case against former president Donald Trump to the U.S. Senate Monday night for the start of his historic trial.

Indian farmers protesting against agricultural reforms breached barricades and clashed on Tuesday with police in the capital, who fired tear gas to restrain them, shortly after a convoy of tractors tr...

More than a 100,000 Russians answered the call of imprisoned anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny to take to the streets over the weekend. The scope of the unrest suggests opposition to President V...

The U.S. Justice Department's inspector general is launching an investigation to examine whether any former or current department officials "engaged in an improper attempt" to overturn the results of ...

A Pakistani dissident and civil rights activist who died in exile in Canada last month was returned to Pakistan and laid to rest in her home village in southwestern Balochistan province under tight se...

Earth's ice is melting 60 per cent faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests.

Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.3 billion US lawsuit against former U.S. president Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, accusing him of defamation in what it called his "big lie" campaign about wid...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday overturned a controversial ban by his predecessor on transgender individuals serving in the country's military, a move that fulfils a campaign promise. ...

It's been a decade since Egyptians dared to disrupt the status quo of living in a police state. But 10 years after the protests in Tahrir Square, many Egyptians view them as naive or misguided, writes...

Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine in Shandong province earlier this month, raising the death toll to 10, officials said Monday.

Coronavirus deaths and cases per day in the United States dropped markedly over the past couple of weeks but are still running at alarmingly high levels.

For the first time since 1983, when Anheuser-Busch used all of its ad time to introduce a beer called Bud Light, the beer giant isn't advertising its iconic Budweiser brand during the Super Bowl. Inst...

Unless the United Kingdom is fundamentally reformed it could swiftly become a failed state as many people have lost faith in the way the country is governed by, and in the interests of, a London-centr...

Sarah Sanders, the former chief spokesperson for U.S. president Donald Trump and one of his closest aides, announced Monday she's running for Arkansas governor, vying for political office even as the ...

A growing number of Republican senators say they oppose holding an impeachment trial, a sign of the dimming chances that former U.S. president Donald Trump will be convicted on the charge that he inci...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and that the symptoms are mild.

The infection in a 56-year-old woman who returned to New Zealand on Dec. 30 was of a coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the COVID-19 response minister Chris Hipkins said during a news...

Rioters set fires in the centre of the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven and pelted police with rocks on Sunday at a banned demonstration against coronavirus lockdown measures, while officers responded...

Israeli authorities on Monday extradited a woman wanted on 74 charges of child sex abuse in Australia, following a six-year legal battle that had strained relations between the two governments. ...

Members of the Royal Family are generally reluctant to share many details of their personal health, but a decision by Queen Elizabeth to let it be known she and Prince Philip have received vaccination...