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 ...

A ceasefire agreed to by Israel and Hamas went into effect early Friday morning, ending a bruising 11-day war that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip and brought life in much of Israel to...

European Union citizens can start packing for summer vacations in the bloc's 27 nations without having to worry about quarantines: they soon should be able to travel freely across the EU. ...

An inquiry into how the BBC secured the 1995 interview with Princess Diana in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage concluded on Thursday that the journalist involved had acted d...

The first person charged under the national security law in Hong Kong will face a trial without jury, the city's High Court ruled on Thursday, in a landmark decision that marks a departure from the gl...

The 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas pushed the frustrations of Palestinian citizens of Israel and those in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank to the breaking point, leading to unpreced...

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. ...

A contrasting picture of COVID-19 in the neighbouring provinces of Manitoba and Ontario on Thursday highlights the see-saw nature of the continuing battle against the virus and its variants. ...

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...

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...