Ukraine has slowly and brutally been losing territory in the Donbas region to Russia. Now its leaders are signalling a new phase of the war where Kyiv finally takes the offensive. But does the embattl...

Russian missiles that struck a city in central Ukraine killed at least 23 people and wounded about more than 100 on Thursday, Ukrainian authorities said. Ukraine's president alleged the attack deliber...

Sri Lankan protesters began to retreat from government buildings they had seized as military troops reinforced security at the parliament on Thursday, establishing a tenuous calm in a country facing b...

A video obtained by Reuters showed a harrowing but successful rescue operation after a one-year-old elephant calf and its mother got stuck in a drain hole in central Thailand.

Twitter appears to be returning for some users after experiencing an hour-long outage that affected both its app and website on Thursday.

Authorities in Virginia say they have found all of the people who were unaccounted for in the hours that immediately followed a period of torrential rain and subsequent flooding in a remote corner of ...

American basketball star Brittney Griner didn't testify on the third day of her drugs possession trial in Russia, but the director of the Russian team she plays for in the off-season said he told the ...

Actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of sexually assaulting three men a decade or more ago.

Hagay Ben Yehuda is a fifth-generation baker working at a small artisanal bakery in central Israel, where he's returning to his roots and pioneering the search for heirloom grains — all in an attemp...

The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol used social media posts and other evidence Tuesday to show that Trump was rallying supporters to Washington as earl...

Thousands of firefighters are battling more than 20 blazes raging across Portugal and western Spain, menacing villages and disrupting tourists' holidays amid a heat wave that pushed temperatures above...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday opened his first visit to the Middle East since taking office by offering anxious Israeli leaders strong reassurances of his determination to stop Iran's growing ...

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...

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on Wednesday amid a popular uprising brought on by an economic collapse, bringing to an apparent end his family's near two-decade dominance...

A judge has rejected a motion from actor Amber Heard to set aside the $10 million US judgment awarded against her in favour of her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, or to have a mistrial declared after her law...

The U.S. inflation rate defied expectations and rose to a new multi-decade high of 9.1 per cent in the year up to June.

A new wave of anger swept through Uvalde on Tuesday over surveillance footage of police officers in body armor milling in the hallway of Robb Elementary School while a gunman carried out a massacre in...

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...

Flooding in a remote pocket of southwest Virginia has damaged more than 100 homes and left some 40 people unaccounted for, but there are no confirmed deaths or injuries, authorities said Wednesday. ...