Thousands of northern California homes were threatened Sunday by the largest wildfire in the United States, and officials warned that the danger of new blazes erupting across the West was high becaus...

Following are some of the major milestones in the Islamist militant movement's advance in recent months.

The death toll from a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti soared to at least 1,297 Sunday as rescuers raced to find survivors amid the rubble ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching tropical sto...

The Taliban swept into Afghanistan's capital on Sunday after the government collapsed and the embattled president joined an exodus of his fellow citizens and foreigners, signalling the end of a costly...

Roger Federer is going to miss the U.S. Open and be sidelined for what he said will be "many months" because he needs a third operation on his right knee.

The Philippines recorded 14,749 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, its second-largest daily increase, and an additional 270 deaths — its third-highest one-day spike in fatalities, as the spread of th...

A tour bus bound for Niagara Falls ran off the New York State Thruway and rolled over in central New York, sending more than 50 people to hospitals, state police and a hospital say.

Ivory Coast reported the first case of the Ebola hemorrhagic virus in the country in 25 years, the country's health minister and the World Health Organization (WHO) said separately on Saturday. ...

The death toll from severe floods and mudslides along Turkey's Black Sea coast has climbed to at least 57, the country's emergency and disaster agency said Saturday, as authorities disputed reports th...

Twenty-seven people aboard a Carnival cruise tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week, according to the Belize Tourism Board.

Police have identified Jake Davison, 22, as the man who killed five people in Plymouth, southwest England, then took his own life in Britain's first mass shooting in over a decade. Authorities said th...

The Taliban now control all but four of Afghanistan's major cities, and Canadian officials are preparing for the capital Kabul to fall imminently.

A rapidly growing number of places across the U.S. are requiring people to show proof they have been inoculated against COVID-19 to teach at schools, work at hospitals, see concerts or eat inside res...

The Taliban completed their sweep of Afghanistan's south on Friday, taking four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set ...

Fires stoked by hot winds swept through southern Italy on Thursday, a day after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of 48.8 Celsius, which some scientists believe could be the highest...

In a major blow to New Zealand's small but vibrant screen industry, Amazon Studios announced Friday it would move filming of the second season of its Lord of the Rings series to Britain. ...

Turkish officials say search-and-rescue crews have recovered 10 more bodies overnight, raising the death toll from the severe floods and mudslides that struck the north of the country to 27 on Friday....

British sprinter CJ Ujah, who was part of the team which won a silver medal in the men’s 4.100-metre relay event, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletic’s Integrity Unit (AIU) after test...

The Taliban captured two major Afghan cities — the country's second- and third-largest after Kabul — and a strategic provincial capital on Thursday, further squeezing the embattled government just...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc for people with compromised immune systems.