Russia is laying the groundwork for the annexation of Ukrainian territory and is installing illegitimate proxy officials in areas there under its control, the White House said on Tuesday. ...

Sri Lankan lawmakers chose six-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as president Wednesday to succeed the ousted leader who fled the country, in a vote that risks reigniting political turmoil in t...

Australians admitted to hospitals from COVID-19 neared record levels on Wednesday as authorities urged businesses to let staff work from home and recommended people wear masks indoors and get booster ...

A bill to protect same-sex marriage rights secured enough votes to pass in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, garnering some bipartisan support.

A Sesame Street-themed amusement park has apologized and promised more training for its employees after a video showing a costumed character waving off two 6-year-old Black girls during a parade went ...

A Delaware court has granted a partial win to Twitter in its legal battle with Elon Musk over a failed merger by ordering that the trial to settle their acrimonious divorce will happen by October. ...

Bodyguards could have saved Shinzo Abe's life had they shielded or removed him from the line of fire in the 2½ seconds between a missed first shot and a second round of gunfire that fatally wounded ...

Canadian rider Hugo Houle has won Stage 16 of the Tour de France. Houle, of Sainte-Perpétue, Que., finished in a time of four hours 23 minutes 47 seconds to become just the second Canadian rider to w...

The toxic chemical methanol has been identified as a possible cause of the deaths of 21 teenagers at a South African bar, officials said Tuesday.

As the Earth continues to heat up due to man-made climate change, "hottest temperature on record" has become an increasingly common refrain. Dozens of countries have hit their high-temperature marks i...

A heat wave broiling Europe fuelled ferocious wildfires on Monday in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames in ti...

Millions of people in Britain stayed home or sought shade Monday during the country's first-ever "red" warning for extreme heat, as the hot, dry weather that has scorched mainland Europe for the past ...

A Russian shell smashed into a two-story building in the eastern Ukrainian town of Toretsk on Monday, killing six civilians who were sheltering there, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said. ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the most recognizable face in U.S. efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, has told Politico in a newly published interview that he plans to retire at the end of Joe Biden's first ...

A feminism group from a U.K. high school is petitioning the government to ban school uniforms from being sold in costume and sex shops and worn in pornography.

Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening at an Indiana mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said. ...

Sri Lanka's acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Monday that the country had almost concluded negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on a bailout package, a day after he declared ...

One of The Chainsmokers' latest hits is High and they're hoping to live up to their lyrics. The hit-making duo of Drew Taggart and Alex Pall have signed up to get into a pressurized capsule tethered ...