It's a page ripped straight out of the Soviet-era political handbook — a script Moscow seems to be having trouble following now that occupation authorities in southern Ukraine have acknowledged t...

Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labour unrest and fix a health-care syst...

Record heat scorched parts of California on Tuesday, as power operators urged residents to cut back usage in the late afternoon to avoid rolling blackouts caused by high demand for air conditioning. ...

Juul Labs has agreed to pay nearly $440 million to settle a two-year investigation by 33 U.S. states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a...

The UN atomic watchdog agency urged Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday to establish a 'nuclear safety and security protection zone' around the Zaporizhzhia power plant amid mounting fears the fighting coul...

Pakistan's unprecedented monsoon season has killed hundreds of people, and the rains now threaten a famed archeological site dating back 4,500 years: the ruins of Mohenjo Daro.

In a legal victory for former U.S. president Donald Trump, a federal judge on Monday granted his request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and also tempo...

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will become Britain's third female prime minister, after Margaret Thatcher (1979 to 1990) and Theresa May (2016 to 2019). Born in Oxford in 1975, Truss is the daughter of a...

A Russian court on Monday sentenced a former journalist to 22 years in prison for treason after prosecutors said he disclosed state secrets, a ruling his supporters said was a harsh punishment that sh...

The Israeli army said Monday there was a "high possibility" that a soldier killed a well-known Al Jazeera journalist in the occupied West Bank last May, as it announced the results of its investigatio...

New regulations governing refund requirements for air passengers are coming into force this week, but consumer advocates and airlines are raising concerns about the rules.

Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last independent news outlets, was stripped of its media licence on Monday, and in effect banned from operating.

While voters in Chile made it clear Sunday they do not support the constitution that was proposed to replace the dictatorship-era document the country currently has, Chileans in Canada overwhelmin...

China's state media says at least 30 people have been killed in a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan.

Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan strategically breached the country's largest freshwater lake on Sunday, a minister said, a move that could displace up to 100,000 people from their homes while saving...

The open way in which Diana, Princess of Wales, made emotional connections with people who watched her from afar and a resurgence of interest in her in pop culture are helping to maintain her legacy 2...

With the U.S. congressional midterm elections just two months away, Democrats are arguing democracy itself is now on the ballot. While President Joe Biden has called Donald Trump's supporters a threat...

They call him the ultimate survivor: Shaul Ladany lived through a Nazi concentration camp and escaped the massacre of 11 fellow Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Decades later the ...