A former San Antonio, Texas, police officer was charged Tuesday with two counts of aggravated assault by a peace officer in last week's shooting of a teen who was eating a hamburger in his car in a Mc...

Israel's prime minister said Tuesday that the country has reached a "historic agreement" with neighbouring Lebanon over their shared maritime border that could pave the way for natural gas exploration...

Citing Russia’s war in Ukraine, chronic inflation pressures, punishing interest rates and the lingering consequences of the global pandemic, the 190-country lending group said economies around the w...

Iran intensified its crackdown Tuesday on Kurdish areas in the country's west as protests sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the morality police rage on, activists said. ...

A Spanish baby has become the world's first recipient of a successful intestine transplant from a donor who died of heart failure, hospital officials say.

Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the first season of the hit podcast Serial.

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday will hear arguments in a copyright dispute between Andy Warhol's estate and photographer Lynn Goldsmith over his paintings of Prince, based on a photograph she...

Droves of tourists from abroad began arriving in Japan on Tuesday, with the end of pandemic-fighting border restrictions that had been in place for more than two years.

Rescue workers using drones and trained dogs searched for survivors Monday following a massive landslide in central Venezuela, as the death toll rose to 34 and residents described harrowing tales of e...

New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change.

Workers at the site of a major complex of refineries crucial for Iran's massive offshore natural gas field protested on Monday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, online videos appeared to show. ...

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and actor who is married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, is among the accusers of Harvey Weinstein who will testify at his rape and sexual assault tria...

The U.S. midterm elections are in a month. Here's the outlook from the campaign trail: Abortion narrowed the race, now Republicans are turning to 'three Cs' to seal their victory. At stake? Control of...

Ben Bernanke, the former head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, is among the three winners of this year's Nobel in economics.

Kanye West's Twitter and Instagram accounts have been locked because of antisemitic posts by the rapper, now known legally as Ye.

If there's one thing we've learned from COVID-19 and monkeypox, health experts say, it's that viruses are world travellers – and disease outbreaks are developing at a fast and furious pace.    ...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its eighth month, is being accompanied by the destruction and pillaging of historical sites and treasures on an industrial scale, Ukrainian authorities say. ...

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Sunday, the latest of a recent barrage of weapons tests, a day after it warned the redeployment of a U.S. aircraft car...

A landslide fuelled by flooding and days of torrential rain swept through a municipality in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead as it dragged mud, rocks and trees through neighbourhoods...