Rescue workers using drones and trained dogs searched for survivors Monday following a massive landslide in central Venezuela, as the death toll rose to 34 and residents described harrowing tales of e...

Workers at the site of a major complex of refineries crucial for Iran's massive offshore natural gas field protested on Monday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, online videos appeared to show. ...

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and actor who is married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, is among the accusers of Harvey Weinstein who will testify at his rape and sexual assault tria...

The U.S. midterm elections are in a month. Here's the outlook from the campaign trail: Abortion narrowed the race, now Republicans are turning to 'three Cs' to seal their victory. At stake? Control of...

Ben Bernanke, the former head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, is among the three winners of this year's Nobel in economics.

Kanye West's Twitter and Instagram accounts have been locked because of antisemitic posts by the rapper, now known legally as Ye.

If there's one thing we've learned from COVID-19 and monkeypox, health experts say, it's that viruses are world travellers – and disease outbreaks are developing at a fast and furious pace.    ...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its eighth month, is being accompanied by the destruction and pillaging of historical sites and treasures on an industrial scale, Ukrainian authorities say. ...

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Sunday, the latest of a recent barrage of weapons tests, a day after it warned the redeployment of a U.S. aircraft car...

A landslide fuelled by flooding and days of torrential rain swept through a municipality in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead as it dragged mud, rocks and trees through neighbourhoods...

Anti-government demonstrations have erupted in several areas across Iran as the most sustained protests in years against a deeply entrenched theocracy entered their fourth week.

The death toll from a gas station explosion that shattered a small village in northwest Ireland rose to 10 on Saturday, as emergency workers combed through piles of rubble for people who are still mis...

Europe's urgent push to reduce energy consumption is prompting changes to daily life, as nations look for ways to get by with less heat and less use of electricity.

Birds are all around us, every day, and they play a crucial role in the health of our planet. But in the past 50 years nearly three billion birds have disappeared across North America and the European...

The school district in Uvalde, Texas, on Friday pulled its embattled campus police force off the job following a wave of new outrage over the hiring of a former state trooper who was part of the hesit...

The mother of a 16-year-old Iranian girl has disputed official claims that her daughter fell to her death from a high building, saying the teen was killed by blows to the head as part of the crackdown...

An Iranian coroner's report into the death of Mahsa Amini says she died of multiple organ failure caused by cerebral hypoxia, or lack of oxygen to the brain, the official news agency IRNA reported on ...

With last week's election results, Italy could have its first far-right-led government since the Second World War.

Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties were jointly honoured for the Nobel Peace Prize. ...