The Kennedy Space Center's location on the east coast of Florida may leave many wondering exactly why NASA chose this spot. After all, it’s the lightning capital of the country and is prone to hurri...

U.S. President Joe Biden warned Thursday that "equality and democracy are under assault" in the U.S, sounding an alarm about his predecessor, Donald Trump, and "MAGA Republican" adherents. ...

A man was detained Thursday night after he aimed a handgun at point-blank range toward Argentina's politically powerful Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and President Alberto Fernandez s...

The United States on Thursday welcomed a United Nations report that said China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, saying it deepened Washington's concerns about what it calls a ge...

Thomas Webster, a retired New York Police Department officer, was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault a police officer tryi...

Pakistani health officials on Thursday reported an outbreak of water-borne diseases in areas hit by recent record-breaking flooding, as authorities stepped up efforts to ensure the provision of clean ...

Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russia's second-largest oil producer, Lukoil, died on Thursday after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, two sources familiar with the situation said. ...

Poland's top politician said Thursday that the government will seek the equivalent of some $1.7 trillion Cdn in reparations from Germany for the Nazis' invasion and occupation of his country during th...

The International Monetary Fund announced Thursday it has reached a preliminary agreement to provide Sri Lanka with $2.9 billion over four years to help it recover from its worst economic crisis. ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday but will not attend the late former Soviet leader's funeral, a decision reflecting the Kremlin's ambivalence about Gorbac...

A U.S. House committee seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump has reached an agreement that ends litigation on the matter and requires an accounting firm to turn over some of the...

Former Malaysian first lady Rosmah Mansor was ordered to serve 10 years in prison after being found guilty on Thursday of soliciting and receiving bribes during her husband's corruption-tainted admini...

Firefighters are battling two California blazes that are raging in rural areas and have prompted evacuations in the midst of a scorching heat wave

Mining the moon might sound like a concept that belongs in a science fiction novel, but it's likely to be a part of reality in the not-so-distant future. That's made it a hot topic of discussion amon...

Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election for Alaska's only U.S. House seat on Wednesday, besting a field that included Republican Sarah Palin, who was seeking a political comeback in the state w...

China's discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the UN human rights office said in a long-a...

Officials in Pakistan raised concern Wednesday over the spread of waterborne diseases among thousands of flood victims, as waters from powerful monsoon rains began to recede in many parts of the count...

The annual return to school in Chernihiv, Ukraine, this fall, occurs amid an ongoing war and in the aftermath of Russian attacks that destroyed at least 11 schools in the region and damaged more than ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at age 91, liked to talk. And after he took power in the Soviet Union in 1985, he wanted his country to talk, and talk openly, about its problems. It only hast...