Qatar World Cup organizers have admitted that workers were exploited while contracted for FIFA's preparation tournaments in the Gulf State.

Minnesota prosecutors have declined to file charges against a police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Amir Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant in February.

Widespread abuses against civilians in the western part of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have charge...

Ukraine wants sanctions that are economically destructive enough for Russia to end its war after accusing some countries of still prioritizing money over punishment for civilian killings that the West...

Police said Wednesday that investigators believe at least five shooters were involved in the mass shooting in downtown Sacramento last weekend and that it was gang-related violence.

While the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laid out, yet again, some dire predictions about the planet unless immediate action is taken, the United Nations experts a...

Alex Jones was being questioned Wednesday by lawyers for families of Sandy Hook victims in Connecticut, where a judge had ordered the Infowars host to face mounting fines until he appeared for a depos...

Grammy Award-winning songwriter Ed Sheeran won a U.K. copyright battle over his 2017 hit Shape of You on Wednesday, then slammed what he described as a "culture" of baseless lawsuits intended to sque...

Following a public uproar, Shanghai is allowing at least some parents to stay with children infected with COVID-19, making an exception to a policy of isolating anyone who tests positive. ...

A car crashed into the gate of the Russian Embassy in the Romanian capital and caught fire early Wednesday, killing the driver, police said.

The AP has seen dozens of dead bodies around Bucha, Ukraine, where Russian forces withdrew in the past week. Many victims seen by AP appeared to have been shot at close range, some in the head. At lea...

Two more people were arrested Tuesday in connection with the mass shooting that killed six people in Sacramento, Calif., on Sunday.

Even by the standards of Russian state media, the language in an editorial from RIA Novosti was extreme. It says the Ukrainian identity, leadership and culture must be erased.

The COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest metropolis of Shanghai remains "extremely grim" amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday. ...

Enrique Tarrio, the former top leader of the right-wing group the Proud Boys, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to criminal charges accusing him of conspiring to block Congress from certifying President J...

A day after revealing he owns a significant chunk of Twitter, Elon Musk has been given a major say in deciding how it's run.

Scientists have observed an enormous planet about nine times the mass of Jupiter at a remarkably early stage of formation — describing it as still in the womb — in a discovery that challenges th...

An alleged leader of a Sudanese militia known as "devils on horseback" took a "strange glee" in his ruthless reputation during the Darfur conflict, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal C...

Two of naturalist Charles Darwin's notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University's library have been returned, two decades after they disappeared.