The Taliban declared an "amnesty" across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government Tuesday, trying to calm nerves across a tense capital city that only the day before saw chaos at its airport...

U.S. experts expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans eight months after their second shot, sources tell The Associated Press.

Maryam is busy making sure she will survive until she can find a flight out of Afghanistan. She's hiding and destroying any evidence of her successful, decade-long career as a judge — a job that cou...

Yet more wildfires broke out in Greece Monday, with two blazes triggering evacuation alerts for settlements to the southeast and northwest of Athens.

Rescuers and scrap metal scavengers dug into the floors of a collapsed hotel Monday in the quake-ravaged coastal town of Les Cayes, Haiti, where 15 bodies had already been extracted.

U.S. President Joe Biden said Monday that he stands "squarely behind" his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan and that the Afghan government's collapse was quicker than anticipated.  ...

Thousands of Afghans rushed onto the tarmac of Kabul's international airport Monday, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto an American military jet as it...

The U.S. government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla's partially automated driving system after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles.

Some Texas counties and school districts remained defiant Monday and kept in place mandates requiring students and others to wear facial coverings despite rulings a day earlier by the Texas Supreme Co...

Thousands of people packed into the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday — rushing the tarmac and pushing onto planes in desperate attempts to flee the country after t...

Tim Hortons in China is planning to go public in a deal that could significantly increase the number of the coffee and doughnut chain's locations in the country to more than 2,750 restaurants in five ...

Actor Selma Blair, best known for film roles in Cruel Intentions and Legally Blonde, says she's in remission from multiple sclerosis as a result of undergoing a stem cell transplant.

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...

The following are some of the major milestones in the Islamist militant movement's advance in the war-torn country in recent months.

The Tokyo Paralympics will take place generally without spectators, organizers said on Monday, as the government was set to prolong COVID-19 emergency measures in the capital and other regions that wi...

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.

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. ...