A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed's conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee — a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial. ...

Valery Polyakov, the Russian cosmonaut whose 437 days aboard the Mir space station set the record for the longest single stay in space, has died at age 80, Russia's space agency announced Monday. ...

Hurricane Fiona roared over the Dominican Republic on Monday, a day after knocking out power to all of Puerto Rico and causing damage the governor described as "catastrophic." Many people were also le...

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastat...

A Russian missile struck close to a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine without damaging the three reactors but hit other industrial equipment in what Ukrainian authorities denounced Monday as an ...

President Joe Biden says U.S. forces would defend Taiwan if China tries to invade the self-ruled island claimed by Beijing as part of its territory, adding to displays of official American support for...

A strong earthquake shook much of Taiwan on Sunday, toppling a three-storey building and temporarily trapping four people inside, stranding about 400 tourists on a mountainside, and knocking part of a...

Russia has widened its strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure in the past week following setbacks on the battlefield and is likely to expand its target range further, Britain said on Sunday, as ...

U.S. President Joe Biden says the discovery of top-secret documents at former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate raised concerns that sensitive data was compromised and called it "irresponsibl...

To partisans across a stark political divide, Brazil's upcoming election is nothing less than a battle for the future of democracy in South America's largest nation. The Oct. 2 vote pits leftist ex-p...

If we elected more women to top roles, I wouldn't find myself feeling this way about someone who rose to power by fluke of birth.

U.S. President Joe Biden paid his respects at Queen Elizabeth II's coffin on Sunday as thousands of police, hundreds of British troops and an army of officials made final preparations for the Queen's ...

All eight of Queen Elizabeth II's grandchildren stood in silent vigil beside her coffin Saturday, capping another huge day in which thousands came to London to pay their respects to the monarch. Many ...

A powerful storm travelling north through the Bering Strait on Saturday caused widespread flooding in several western Alaska coastal communities, knocking out power and sending residents fleeing for h...

Riot police clashed Saturday with soccer hooligans in downtown Belgrade, where a pan-European Pride march was held despite threats from anti-gay groups and an official earlier ban on the march in the ...

The eye of newly formed Hurricane Fiona landed on Puerto Rico's southwestern coast on Sunday — already causing an island-wide power blackout and threatening to dump "historic" levels of rain. ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will travel to Canada next week to talk about energy, security and trade with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Iran's president has ordered a probe in the case of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who slipped into a coma while in custody in Tehran and died, state media reported on Friday. She was reportedly detained ...