Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says the government is implementing an overnight curfew, closing places of worship and entertainment, and prohibiting movement into and out of two districts affected...

This weekend the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party will effectively give Xi Jinping a mandate to continue as president for life. That is likely to mean a more belligerent foreign policy and...

A fire broke out on Saturday in Tehran's Evin prison, where many of Iran's political and dual-national detainees are held, and witnesses reported hearing gunfire.

Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo is undergoing treatment in Atlanta for a brain tumour, the NBA announced Saturday.

Britain's new chancellor of the exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, said on Saturday some taxes would go up and tough spending decisions were needed, adding that Prime Minister Liz Truss had made mistakes as she ...

One man drowned after storms battered Crete, causing rivers to overflow and flooding locations across Greece's biggest island on Saturday.

Daily life for many Haitians has been thrown into turmoil as gang violence and soaring inflation make it difficult to access basic necessities like water, food and fuel. Canada is among the countries ...

People injured in Iran’s protests fear repercussions if they go to the hospital, so doctors thousands of kilometres away are trying to offer help online.

The death toll from a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey rose to at least 41 people on Saturday, officials said.

Climate protesters threw soup on Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers in London's National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil fuel extraction, but they caused no discernible damage to the glass-covered pa...

British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, on Friday and scrapped parts of their economic package in a desperate bid to stay in power and survive the market and poli...

Elon Musk said on Friday SpaceX cannot "indefinitely" fund the Starlink internet service in Ukraine and send it several thousand more terminals, after a report suggested that his rocket company had as...

Homes were flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia's southeast on Friday with rivers forecast to remain dangerously high for days.

Ukraine's allies vowed Thursday to supply the besieged nation with advanced air defence systems as Russian forces attacked the Kyiv region with kamikaze drones and fired missiles elsewhere at civilian...

The phenomenon, sometimes referred to as cyberflashing, involves accepting a new friend request on social media and shortly after receiving an unsolicited picture of their penis.

Measures to block members of the Iranian regime from entering Canada — that the federal government says it intends to pursue — could include their family members, the immigration minister says....

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump's plea to step into the legal fight over the FBI search of his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.

The National Science Foundation announced Thursday that it will not rebuild a renowned radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which was one of the world's largest until it collapsed nearly two years ago. ...