The potential specifics of bipartisan U.S. gun legislation remain murky, as are its chances of passing into law, but here's what we know based on what the negotiators are saying.

A fire caused by suspected arson spread through an office building Thursday in South Korea's Daegu city, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens of others, local fire and police officials sa...

A fourth-grade student at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school told U.S. lawmakers about how she survived the recent mass shooting there, while Buffalo's police commissioner said an armed security guard...

A man drove a car into a German school group visiting a popular Berlin shopping district Wednesday, killing a teacher and seriously injuring nine people, according to authorities. Police said they wer...

Ukraine has filed eight more war crimes cases to court in addition to three sentences that have already been handed down to Russian soldiers, Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said on Wednesday. ...

The U.S. Justice Department has named a team of nine people, including an FBI official and former police chiefs, to aid in a review of the law enforcement response to the Uvalde, Texas, elementary sch...

European Union officials said they inked a provisional agreement Tuesday to require a standard USB Type-C charging cord in the 27-nation bloc. It's part of a wider effort to make products sold in the ...

A man carrying a gun, a knife and zip ties was arrested Wednesday near the Maryland home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after threatening to kill him, authorities say.

The prime minister of Barbados is pleading the case of smaller island nations that are struggling to deal with a "triple crisis" amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

British prosecutors said Wednesday they have authorized police to charge ex-film producer Harvey Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in 1996.

In Eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces are intensifying their onslaught against the embattled Donbas region, weeks of brutal combat have pushed the country's defenders to a breaking point. ...

U.S. Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion US from the FBI for failing to stop the now-convicted sp...

Iran removed two surveillance cameras of the International Atomic Energy Agency from one of its nuclear facilities on Wednesday, state TV reported, in a move that is likely to raise tensions with the ...

North Korea has been test firing rockets about every nine days or so this year, making neighbours nervous. The United Nations Security Council, once vocal in condemning the tests and united in approvi...

A passenger train traveling through eastern Iran struck an excavator and derailed nearly half its cars before dawn Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 87, officials said. ...

Brazilian police have opened a criminal probe and interviewed at least four witnesses believed to be among the last to have seen a British journalist and an Indigenous expert who went missing in a rem...

Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey appeared to choke up as he spoke about the child victims of an school shooting in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, after meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden at...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried to patch up his tattered authority on Tuesday after surviving a no-confidence vote that laid bare deep divisions in his Conservative Party and raised serious...

Matthew McConaughey, Gabby Giffords and Garnell Whitfield Jr. all made emotional appeals in Washington on Tuesday.