Britain's biggest rail strike in 30 years kicked off on Tuesday as tens of thousands of staff walked out in a dispute over pay and jobs that could pave the way for widespread industrial action across ...

Canada will spend $4.9 billion over the next six years to modernize continental defence, Defence Minister Anita Anand said Monday.

Europe's biggest buyers of Russian gas raced to find alternative fuel supplies on Monday and could burn more coal to cope with reduced gas flows from Russia that threaten an energy crisis in winter if...

Jihadists killed 132 civilians in multiple attacks on villages in central Mali over the weekend, the government says, in the latest major incident in a worsening security situation.

The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctioned off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night for $103.5 million US, shattering the old record for a Nobel. ...

Israel's weakened coalition government on Monday decided to dissolve parliament and call new elections. The vote could bring about the return of a nationalist religious government or another prolonged...

Authorities in India and Bangladesh struggled Monday to deliver food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes in days of flooding that have submerged wide swath...

The world's largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States. ...

A fuel storage depot in the Eastern Ukrainian town of Novomoskovsk exploded on Sunday, killing one person and injuring two, after it had been hit by three Russian missiles, the regional administratio...

A Japanese court ruled on Monday that a ban on same-sex marriage was not unconstitutional, dealing a setback to LGBTQ rights activists in the only G7 nation that does not allow people of the same gend...

Former rebel Gustavo Petro narrowly won a runoff election over a political outsider millionaire Sunday, ushering in a new era of politics for Colombia by becoming the country's first leftist president...

French President Emmanuel Macron lost control of the National Assembly in legislative elections on Sunday, a major setback that could throw the country into political paralysis unless he is able to ne...

A high-profile flight is due to arrive in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, this week, but it won't be transporting asylum seekers as the U.K. government had intended to deport to the East African nation, aft...

Since the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin and other Kremlin politicians have been warning the West to stay out of the conflict or else risk Russia's nuclear wrath....

The group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Sikh temple in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul that killed at least one worshipper and wounded seven others. ...

Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the United States, gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But after an initial burst of action, the movement to ha...

Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, a union said, joining a growing push across U.S. retail, service and tech industries to organize for g...

World swimming's governing body has effectively banned transgender women from competing in women's events, starting Monday.

A celebrated Ukrainian medic whose footage was smuggled out of the besieged city of Mariupol by an Associated Press team was freed by Russian forces on Friday, three months after she was taken captive...

Protesters in India's eastern state of Bihar damaged public property and ransacked offices in a railway station on Saturday, expressing outrage at a new military recruitment plan and demanding the gov...