Before control shifts in the House of Representatives, the to-do list for U.S. Democrats includes: Same-sex marriage, long-term Ukraine funding, election reform, immigration, and budget bills. Some ar...

As some dub China's protests "the white paper revolution," experts say the blank pieces of paper held up by demonstrators send a clear message to Beijing's leaders - no words necessary. ...

While much of the world's eyes have been focused elsewhere this year, Somalia has slipped deeper into crisis. A famine is knocking. UNICEF estimates that in Somalia since August, one child has been se...

Chinese authorities have begun inquiries into some of the people who gathered at weekend protests against COVID-19 curbs, people who were at the Beijing demonstrations told Reuters, as police remained...

At the outbreak of the pandemic, China set out "zero-COVID" measures that were harsh, but not out of line with other countries. While most other countries saw the regulations as temporary until vaccin...

A growing number of Republicans, including former vice-president Mike Pence, criticized Donald Trump on Monday for dining with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist days after launching his third camp...

Spain's maritime rescue service says it has rescued three stowaways found on a ship's rudder in the Canary Islands after the vessel sailed there from Nigeria.

Tiger Woods on Tuesday painted an uncertain picture about how much golf he can play, saying, "I don't have much left in this leg." On Monday, he withdrew from his tournament, this week's Hero World Ch...

Taylor Swift fans were outraged when Ticketmaster's system couldn't keep up with demand when presales started for the superstar's next tour. But a number of entertainment industry experts — and eve...

Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian and Israeli officials said, the latest in a months-long series of deadly clashes between...

FIFA opened a disciplinary case against Croatia on Tuesday because of its fans' taunts aimed at Canadian goalkeeper Milan Borjan, who has Serbian family ties, during the teams' World Cup game. ...

The murder of Ariadna Lopez has shone a fresh spotlight on repeated shortcomings in investigations of violent crimes against women in Mexico, where recorded numbers of murders of women are rising, rea...

The world's largest active volcano, Hawaii's Mauna Loa, has begun spewing fiery rivers of lava after being dormant since 1984.

The white gunman who massacred 10 Black shoppers and workers at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty Monday to murder and hate-motivated terrorism charges, guaranteeing that he will spend th...

The World Health Organization announced Monday its new preferred term for monkeypox will be 'mpox,' and it urged others to make the same change after receiving complaints that the current name for t...

Police on Monday stopped and searched people at the sites of weekend protests in Shanghai and Beijing, after crowds there and in other Chinese cities demonstrated against stringent COVID-19 measures d...

Two people were extricated from a small plane early Monday in Maryland, several hours after they crashed into power lines, causing widespread outages in the surrounding county.

NFL free agent Odell Beckham Jr. was removed by police from an aircraft before takeoff at Miami International Airport after officials said he failed to respond to requests to buckle his seatbelt and a...

Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, has started to erupt, prompting volcanic ash and debris to fall nearby, authorities said Monday.

Search teams have recovered seven dead, including a three-week-old infant and a pair of young siblings, buried in mud and debris that hurtled down a mountainside and through a densely populated port c...