Shelling has damaged a backup power line at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which has already lost all four of its regular power lines, the International Atomic Energy Ag...

A Las Vegas-area elected public official was arrested Wednesday and identified by police as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official's wor...

Miscommunication led utilities to mistakenly cut power to customers in several California cities during unprecedented demand on energy supplies, operators of the state's electricity grid said Wednesda...

Former U.S. president Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, returned to the White House Wednesday, unveiling official portraits with a modern vibe in an event that set humour and nostalgia over his pre...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet next week in Uzbekistan for talks that could signal another step in warming ties between two powers that are inc...

Kelly Craft, one of former U.S. president Donald Trump's most trusted appointees, who played a pivotal role in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, is now entering the race to...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro calls Wednesday's Independence Day a chance to celebrate the country's proud history, but critics say he has transformed what should be a day of unity into a campai...

Jack Sepple pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing Ashley Wadsworth, 19, who had moved to the United Kingdom to be with him before her death in February.

Britain's Cineworld Group said on Wednesday it had filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States as the world's second-largest cinema chain operator struggles to find other ways to restructure ...

Flood-hit areas cover as much as a third of Pakistan, where 1,343 people have now died as a result of monsoon rains.

Five Hong Kong speech therapists were found guilty on Wednesday of a conspiracy to publish seditious children's books that were deemed anti-government, a decision denounced by rights campaigners as a ...

It's a page ripped straight out of the Soviet-era political handbook — a script Moscow seems to be having trouble following now that occupation authorities in southern Ukraine have acknowledged t...

Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labour unrest and fix a health-care syst...

Record heat scorched parts of California on Tuesday, as power operators urged residents to cut back usage in the late afternoon to avoid rolling blackouts caused by high demand for air conditioning. ...

Andrew Tate is the latest controversial social media star to be banned from platforms like TikTok and Instagram. But does this really do anything? Despite the bans, his content is still easily accessi...

Juul Labs has agreed to pay nearly $440 million to settle a two-year investigation by 33 U.S. states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a...

The UN atomic watchdog agency urged Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday to establish a 'nuclear safety and security protection zone' around the Zaporizhzhia power plant amid mounting fears the fighting coul...

Pakistan's unprecedented monsoon season has killed hundreds of people, and the rains now threaten a famed archeological site dating back 4,500 years: the ruins of Mohenjo Daro.

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...

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...