The mixed city of Lod, in central Israel, is under a state of emergency after uncharacteristic violence broke out last week between Jewish and Arab Israelis in response to fighting between Israel and ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to press ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, pushing back Wednesday against calls from the United States to wind down the operatio...

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed into law a "fetal heartbeat" abortion bill that bans abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy and grants citizens the right to sue doctors ...

Ford Motor Co.'s newly revealed electric version of its best-selling F-150 pickup doubles down on a bet that the company can beat Tesla and other rivals by giving new technology a familiar face and co...

The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo Olympic organizers start three days of virtual meetings Wednesday and will run into some of the strongest medical-community opposition so far with the gam...

Nearly three-quarters of adults living on reserves in Canada have now received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 36.1 per cent have received both doses, according to Indigenous Services Minis...

The first images captured by China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 during and after the country's first landing on the Red Planet were released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Wednesday. ...

'Zombie fires' smoulder underground through the winter and rise from the earth in spring to set the boreal forest ablaze again. A new study tracked zombie fires in the Northwest Territories and Alaska...

Princess Beatrice, the 32-year-old granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth, and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are due to have their first child in the autumn, Buckingham Palace said today. ...

In Russia, the crackdown on anyone associated with imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has now entangled the Moscow Metro system after dozens or perhaps even hundreds of workers were fired in ...

A report by the International Energy Agency says immediate action is needed to reshape the world's energy sector in order to meet ambitious climate goals by 2050, including ending investments in new c...

The famed Darwin's Arch in the Galapagos Islands has lost its top, and officials are blaming natural erosion of the stone.

A North Carolina prosecutor said Tuesday that sheriff's deputies were justified in fatally shooting Andrew Brown Jr. because he struck a deputy with his car and nearly ran him over while ignoring comm...

Charles Grodin, the droll, offbeat actor and writer who starred as a caddish newlywed in The Heartbreak Kid and the father in the Beethoven comedies, has died. He was 86.

The Indian navy is working to rescue crew members from a sunken barge and a second cargo vessel that was adrift Tuesday off the coast of Mumbai after a deadly cyclone struck the western coast. ...

A week after reopening from a cyberattack, the company that runs the biggest gasoline pipeline on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard says the communications system its customers use to monitor shipments has go...

Microsoft conducted a probe into co-founder Bill Gates's involvement with an employee almost 20 years ago after it was told in 2019 that he had tried to start a romantic relationship with the person, ...

The White House said U.S. President Joe Biden expressed "support" for a ceasefire in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, the eighth day of fighting between Israeli forces a...

A powerful cyclone that emerged in the Arabian Sea made landfall on India's western coast on Monday, hours after authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and suspended COVID-19 vaccinatio...

Ministers, delegates and representative will discuss the accomplishments of the Icelandic chair and are expected to sign the council's first ever strategic plan.