U.S. President Joe Biden started the summer with his presidency seeming doomed: he was unpopular, his legislative record derided as unaccomplished. He’s suddenly on a hot streak with Congress passin...

While it's in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund to come to a bailout agreement, the Sri Lankan government is scrambling to scrape together enough money to keep the economy afloat. ...

Ex-military legal officer Cory Moore helped 12 Afghan military lawyers and other staff apply for Canada's special one-year immigration program for Afghans. That program has since closed, but these fam...

Serena Williams says she is ready to step away from tennis after winning 23 Grand Slam titles, turning her focus to having another child and her business interests.

A 51-year-old man from Afghanistan was charged Tuesday with killing two Muslim men in Albuquerque, N.M., and authorities said he is suspected in the slayings of two others whose deaths sparked fear in...

Powerful explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea and sent towering clouds of smoke over the landscape Tuesday in what may mark an escalation of the war in Ukraine. At least one person was kille...

Water levels in rivers, lakes and reservoirs across western Europe are running low, or even dry, amid the most severe drought in decades

Israeli troops killed three Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants and wounded dozens in a shootout that erupted during an arrest raid in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank Tuesday. Palestinian...

Hollywood actress Anne Heche remained hospitalized in critical condition, comatose and connected to a breathing machine on Monday, four days after suffering severe injuries in a fiery Los Angeles car ...

Issey Miyake, who built one of Japan's biggest fashion brands and was known for his boldly sculpted, signature pleated pieces, has died. He was 84.

Amid record-breaking temperatures and destructive fires, U.K. researchers are developing a national wildfire danger rating system based on a Canadian system for determining forest fire risk. Canadian ...

The annual Twins Day Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, draws siblings from around the world. It also draws scientists for unique research opportunities.

Lamont Dozier, part of arguably the most successful songwriting team in pop music history at Motown Records and beyond, has died. He was 81.

A third crude tank caught fire and collapsed at Cuba's main oil terminal in Matanzas, the province's governor said on Monday, as an oil spill spread flames from a second tank that caught fire two days...

The British-born Australian actress and singer died on Monday, her family confirmed in a post on Instagram. The Grease star was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, and underwent successful treatme...

Russia and Ukraine traded accusations Monday that each side is shelling Europe's biggest nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. Nuclear experts have warned that more shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuc...

Pfizer and French biotech company Valneva are seeking volunteers to test their new vaccine against Lyme disease, which could protect both adults and kids as young as five from the tick-borne illness. ...

The white father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery's fatal shooting after they chased him through a Georgia neighbourhood were sentenced Monday to life in prison for committing a federal ha...

U.S. authorities on Monday identified the fourth victim in a series of killings of Muslim men in New Mexico's largest city as the deaths sent ripples of fear through the religious community nationwide...