Angela Merkel’s time as chancellor of Germany is coming to a close, leaving the legacy of a strong-willed but enigmatic politician with a poker face and calm exterior that critics and advocates alik...

Japan's former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida won the governing party leadership election on Wednesday and is set to become the next prime minister, facing the imminent task of addressing a pandemic-h...

The top U.S. military officer told the U.S. Congress on Tuesday that he knew former president Donald Trump wasn't planning to attack China and that it was his job to reassure the Chinese of that fact ...

Kathy Gannon, the AP's news director for Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports that while the Taliban has embraced some change, such as using social media, the militant group is seeking to return to harsh...

Red-hot lava from a volcano that devastated the Spanish island of La Palma has reached the Atlantic Ocean, nine days after it started to flow down the mountains, wrecking buildings and destroying crop...

Britain's transport minister said Tuesday there are "tentative signs" a fuel-supply crisis snarling the country is easing, but it will be a while before the situation returns to normal. ...

Ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath had long wanted to join the ranks of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison in the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame. But this May, nearly three years after her d...

Prince Andrew has acknowledged through his lawyer that he has been served with a lawsuit by a U.S. woman who says he sexually assaulted her, clearing a hurdle that had stalled legal proceedings for se...

A new documentary about pop star Britney Spears recalls the complicated legal battle the singer faced after her father began controlling her life under a conservatorship set up in 2008, and some of ...

A man who killed five people at a newspaper in Annapolis, Md., was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE submitted initial trial data for their COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 to U.S. regulators on Tuesday and said they would make a formal request for emergency use a...

Thousands of health-care workers in New York faced with getting the COVID-19 vaccine or losing their jobs on Monday have received at least one dose.

Russia has staged a series of military exercises with its central Asian neighbours that are focused on anti-terrorism operations.

A panel commissioned by the World Health Organization has identified more than 80 alleged cases of sex abuse during the United Nations health agency's response to an Ebola outbreak in Congo, including...

Jurors have found singer R. Kelly guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking after a trial in which prosecutors accused him of exploiting his stardom over a quarter century to lure women and undera...

The British government put dozens of soldiers on standby Monday to help ease fuel supply problems caused by a shortage of truck drivers, a situation that has spurred panic buying of gasoline across th...

British police charged a 36-year-old man on Monday with the murder of Sabina Nessa, a primary school teacher killed as she walked to meet a friend in London.

China's foreign ministry says the two Canadians detained in late 2019 who were allowed to return to Canada late last week were released on bail for health reasons.

Germany's centre-left Social Democrats won the biggest share of the vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday, narrowly beating outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right Union bloc in a closel...

Farmers across India came out in force Monday, demanding the government drop three controversial farm laws it brought in a year ago. (Anushree Fadnavi/Reuters)