Environmental groups on Friday urged world leaders to keep promises they made at the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon this week, to do everything in their power to save the world's seas.

Russian missile attacks on residential areas in a coastal town near the port city of Odesa early Friday killed at least 21 people, Ukrainian authorities reported on Saturday.

The number of new coronavirus cases across Britain has surged by more than 30 per cent in the last week, with cases likely driven by Omicron subvariants.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appealed the British's government decision last month to order his extradition to the U.S., where he faces espionage charges.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade has advocates, prosecutors and residents in some states facing a legal morass created by decades of often conflicting anti-abortion legislation. ...

American basketball star Brittney Griner went on trial Friday, four and a half months after her arrest on charges of possessing cannabis oil while returning to play for a Russian team, in a case that ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping marks the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return by emphasizing Beijing's control over the former British colony under his country's vision of "one country, two systems." ...

Flights from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and others in France face disruptions Friday that could last through the weekend amid a staff strike and protests demanding salary hikes to keep up wi...

The gripping testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson before the Jan. 6 committee could provide federal prosecutors with the legal ammunition to charge former U.S. president Donald Trump with seditious cons...

The United States Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the nation's Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plan...

Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, has been sworn in as a justice of the United States Supreme Court. U.S. President Joe Biden nominated Jackson in February, fulfilling a promise to nominate the court's first...

The son and namesake of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was sworn in as president of the Philippines on Thursday, completing a stunning comeback for one of Asia's most famous political dynasties, 36 ...

The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection issued a subpoena Wednesday to former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, whom previous witnesses have testified was in meetings in which ...

The suspected driver of a truck packed with dozens of migrants who died in sweltering heat during a smuggling attempt in Texas this week was charged in U.S. federal court on Wednesday with a single co...

Singer R. Kelly, convicted of sex trafficking charges last fall, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Wednesday in New York City. The judge imposed the sentence after hearing from several survivors ...

Donald Trump was formally released on Wednesday from an order finding him in contempt of court for having failed to comply with a subpoena from New York's attorney general, who is investigating the fo...

The lone survivor of a team of Islamic State extremists was convicted Wednesday of murder and other charges and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2015 bombings and shootings across Pa...

The streets of Soacha, Colombia, were blanketed in clouds of toxic foam that local media reported had come from an overflowing sewage gully.