The island nation has essentially run out of money, specifically the foreign currency reserves it needs to make its debt payments — which it has already defaulted on this year — and to import basi...

The Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday focused on ways violent far-right extremists answered Donald Trump's tweet for a big Washington rally as a "call to arms," as the panel probed whether they co-ordinated...

The president of Sri Lanka fled the country early Wednesday local time, days after protesters stormed his home and office and the official residence of his prime minister amid a three-month economic c...

Twitter Inc. sued Elon Musk on Tuesday for violating the $44-billion US deal to buy the social media platform and asked a Delaware court to order the world's richest person to complete the merger at t...

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak is seen as the frontrunner to replace embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as rival leadership campaigns begin to launch attacks on each other's candidat...

A group representing the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada said on Tuesday it was seeking a judicial review of the federal government's decision to return repaired turbines to Germany that are needed fo...

Soaring temperatures in Portugal forced authorities to place more than half the country on alert on Tuesday and to deploy hundreds of firefighters to combat blazes erupting in the central region ami...

London's Heathrow Airport is capping daily passenger departure numbers at 100,000 for the summer and telling airlines to stop selling tickets in an effort to quell travel chaos caused by soaring deman...

NASA on Tuesday unveiled new images and photo illustrations from its new powerful space telescope, including a foamy blue and orange shot of a dying star.

Succession received a leading 25 Emmy nominations Tuesday, but the satirical drama about the rich and ruthless has a landmark rival in Squid Game, the first non-English language series to vie for te...

A federal judge said Subway can be sued for allegedly deceiving customers about its tuna products, including a claim it uses other fish species, chicken, pork and cattle instead of the advertised "100...

Many in Japan bid their final goodbye to former prime minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday as a family funeral was held at a temple days after his assassination shocked the nation.

New laws making their way through parliament are meant to help speed up production of military equipment for Russia's depleted armed forces. While the government mobilizes business, recruiters are loo...

The first image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope unveiled at the White House on Monday shows the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance.

Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah says he was illegally brought to the U.K. as a young boy and forced to care for other children before he escaped a life of servitude through running. ...

As Russian missiles struck a key Ukrainian city, Russian President Vladimir Putin expanded a fast-track procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians on Monday, another effort to stren...

Two people were killed and three were wounded in shootings before dawn Monday at four 7-Eleven stores in Southern California, authorities said. Police say at least three of the four shootings are beli...

Fifty newly identified victims were honored and reburied Monday in Bosnia as thousands gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's only acknowledged genocide sinc...

As firefighters battle a wildfire threatening a grove of giant sequoias in the national park, high temperatures were posing a challenge in California and Utah, with Texas regulators warning of potenti...

Sri Lanka was in a political vacuum for a second day Monday with opposition leaders yet to agree on who should replace its roundly rejected leaders, whose residences are occupied by protesters angry o...