If the U.S. Supreme Court soon overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, the country could see archipelagos of abortion access — and the next battle will be over travel across state lines for pro...

Ash from the erupting Cumbre Vieja  volcano forced authorities in Spain's La Palma to close the airport on the island on Thursday, Spanish air traffic operator Aena said.

A powerful earthquake collapsed at least one coal mine and many flimsy mud houses in southwest Pakistan early Thursday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 200, an official said. ...

Israel’s fierce fourth wave of COVID-19 cases may be in retreat, but the country is on the offensive against the virus once again — with an unprecedented round of vaccine boosters for everyone old...

Some of the crude oil that spilled from a pipeline into the waters off Southern California has been breaking up naturally in ocean currents, a U.S. Coast Guard official said Wednesday as authorities s...

Live streaming video service Twitch has been hacked in a breach that has exposed the financial information of some of the people who use it.

The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, hacked the phones of his ex-wife Princess Haya and her attorneys during the legal battle over custody of their two children, Britain's High C...

Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people every year, mostly children under five. The World Health Organization is endorsing Mosquirix, the only approved vaccine against the disease, in addition t...

With record numbers of military flights near Taiwan over the last week, China has been showing a new intensity and military sophistication as it steps up its harassment of the island it claims as its ...

Several cities in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil were overrun by sandstorms this week, causing damage to housing and knocking down trees.

NATO has expelled eight members of Russia's mission to the military alliance, saying that they were secretly working as intelligence officers. It also halved the size of Moscow's team able to work at ...

An increasing number of severely malnourished children from the Afghan countryside are flocking to a Kabul children's hospital after international aid for rural clinics dried up.

YouTube said it has removed R&B singer R. Kelly's channels from its video platform, distancing itself from the singer who was convicted of sex trafficking last month.

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday for finding an "ingenious" new way to build molecules that can be used to make everything from medicines to food flavourings.

The U.S. is increasing the number of at-home COVID-19 tests that will be available in the coming months, as part of an effort to catch more asymptomatic infections.

A former Facebook data scientist told a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that the social network giant's products harm children and fuel polarization in the U.S., while its executives refuse to cha...

The pipeline that leaked more than 550,000 litres of oil into the water off Southern California was split open and apparently dragged along the ocean floor, according to authorities.

Antisemitic graffiti has been discovered on barracks on the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau II Nazi death camp, officials running the site said on Tuesday, condemning the act as "outrageous." ...

With Afghanistan under Taliban control, human rights advocates are concerned about a rise in domestic violence directed toward women and girls, as the few institutions and laws which once provided som...

Taiwan needs to be on alert for China's "over the top" military activities, the premier said on Tuesday, after a record 56 Chinese aircraft flew into Taiwan's air defence zone, while the president sai...