The UN's refugee agency said Friday that destruction from flooding has killed hundreds of people in Nigeria and displaced millions, while millions more are being affected by drought across the Horn of...

The husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was allegedly attacked and severely beaten with a hammer by an assailant who broke into the couple's San Francisco home early Friday searching for the De...

Iranian security forces opened fire Friday on demonstrators in a southeastern city that has seen weeks of unrest amid nationwide protests, activists said. They said the shooting in Zahedan killed at l...

Current Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva square off in their final debate Friday, less than 36 hours before polls open in a runoff election of candidat...

Jerry Lee Lewis, the hard-living, hard-playing pianist and singer whose offstage exploits often grabbed as much attention as his electrifying performances and genre-spanning recording career, has died...

Zoo animals paw, claw, bite and smash into scary-looking pumpkins being offered as early Halloween treats in Belgium.

Nigeria's government declared a cholera outbreak in the northeastern state of Borno on Sept. 14 after cases were confirmed in seven local government areas. The rapid spread appears to be linked to mon...

Journalist and author Kamiab Ghorbanpour says board games, and board game cafes, have become popular in Iran because they let players explore ideas that couldn't be spoken of publicly, and provide you...

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen have finalized their divorce, they each announced Friday, ending the 13-year marriage between two superstars who respectively reached the pinnacles of fashion and footbal...

Scientists tracked a bar-tailed godwit's 11-day, non-stop flight from southwest Alaska to northeastern Tasmania, a jaunt that could be the longest recorded migration by a bird without stopping for foo...

While some sneakerheads swear off Yeezys and companies scrub Kanye West from their playlists following his antisemitic comments, others see a golden opportunity to profit after shoemaker Adidas ended ...

The Kremlin continues to insist that, as part of a campaign to fuel anti-Russia sentiment in the world, Ukraine will detonate a "dirty bomb" on its own territory, and blame Moscow for the subsequent...

While the U.K. government sees its third prime minister in a matter of months, the cost of living for the average citizen has risen astronomically. Some people are even opting out of basic necessitie...

Carmakers will be required to reduce the emissions of new cars sold by 55 per cent in 2030, compared to 2021, before reaching a 100 per cent cut five years later, according to a new European Union d...

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Friday in its first ballistic weapons launches in two weeks, as the U.S. military warned the North that the use of nuclear weapon...

The world, especially richer carbon polluting nations, remains "far behind" and is not doing nearly enough — nor even promising to do enough — to reach any of the global goals limiting future warm...

Hurricanes in Canada and the U.S. versus the immense suffering of tens of millions of people in the global south, yet it seems difficult for some people to grasp the scope of the tragedy. We may be ha...

Ukrainian forces attacked Russia's hold on the southern city of Kherson on Thursday while fighting also intensified in the country's east. The battles came amid reports that Moscow-appointed authoriti...

Elon Musk completed his $44-billion US acquisition of Twitter late on Thursday and almost immediately fired the company's leadership team and reportedly installed himself as CEO.