Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will become Britain's third female prime minister, after Margaret Thatcher (1979 to 1990) and Theresa May (2016 to 2019). Born in Oxford in 1975, Truss is the daughter of a...

The United Nations refugee agency rushed in more desperately needed aid on Monday to flood-stricken Pakistan as the nation's prime minister travelled to the south, where rising waters of Lake Manchar ...

In a legal victory for former U.S. president Donald Trump, a federal judge on Monday granted his request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and also tempo...

New regulations governing refund requirements for air passengers are coming into force this week, but consumer advocates and airlines are raising concerns about the rules.

Liz Truss will become Britain's next prime minister after winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative Party on Monday, vowing to press ahead with promises of tax cuts and to deal with a g...

A Russian court on Monday sentenced a former journalist to 22 years in prison for treason after prosecutors said he disclosed state secrets, a ruling his supporters said was a harsh punishment that sh...

The Israeli army said Monday there was a "high possibility" that a soldier killed a well-known Al Jazeera journalist in the occupied West Bank last May, as it announced the results of its investigatio...

Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last independent news outlets, was stripped of its media licence on Monday, and in effect banned from operating.

While voters in Chile made it clear Sunday they do not support the constitution that was proposed to replace the dictatorship-era document the country currently has, Chileans in Canada overwhelmin...

China's state media says at least 30 people have been killed in a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan.

Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan strategically breached the country's largest freshwater lake on Sunday, a minister said, a move that could displace up to 100,000 people from their homes while saving...

The open way in which Diana, Princess of Wales, made emotional connections with people who watched her from afar and a resurgence of interest in her in pop culture are helping to maintain her legacy 2...

With the U.S. congressional midterm elections just two months away, Democrats are arguing democracy itself is now on the ballot. While President Joe Biden has called Donald Trump's supporters a threat...

They call him the ultimate survivor: Shaul Ladany lived through a Nazi concentration camp and escaped the massacre of 11 fellow Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Decades later the ...

Thousands of Russians filed past the open casket of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, on Saturday with many saying they wanted to honour his memory as "a peacemaker" who dismantl...

Former U.S. president Barack Obama now has an Emmy Award to go with his two Grammys. He won the best narrator award on Saturday for his work on the Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks....

A professional tennis player from France who reached a career-high ranking of No. 39 last year has accused her former coach of rape and sexual assault.

A wind-swept wildfire in rural Northern California tore through a neighborhood and destroyed about 100 homes and other buildings, fire officials said Saturday after at least two people were injured an...