Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul's Yongsan fire department, said the death toll in the capital city could rise and that an unspecified number among the injured were in critical condition following the ...

The head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards warned protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, in a sign that security forces may intensify their crackdown on unres...

A century after the March on Rome that brought Benito Mussolini to power, a symbol of fascism still stands in the northern Italian city of Bolzano. But rather than tear down the Monument to Victory, t...

China's mediocre economic growth, paired with the issue's neglect during the recent 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, has raised concerns about the country's lack of attention to ...

Cops on the streets of Pittsburgh say crime is up and morale is down, and they're eager to discuss their theories about why murder rates are surging in the U.S., including the state of policing after ...

Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains left at least 50 people dead, including in a hard-hit southern Philippine province, where as many as 60 villagers are feared missing and buried ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declined this week to state that nuclear talks with Iran are dead — despite a popular uprising challenging the authoritarian regime and evidence that Tehran i...

The UN's refugee agency said Friday that destruction from flooding has killed hundreds of people in Nigeria and displaced millions, while millions more are being affected by drought across the Horn of...

The husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was allegedly attacked and severely beaten with a hammer by an assailant who broke into the couple's San Francisco home early Friday searching for the De...

Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and his leftist election rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva traded barbs late Friday in their final televised debate ahead of Sunday's tense runoff vote. ...

Iranian security forces opened fire Friday on demonstrators in a southeastern city that has seen weeks of unrest amid nationwide protests, activists said. They said the shooting in Zahedan killed at l...

Jerry Lee Lewis, the hard-living, hard-playing pianist and singer whose offstage exploits often grabbed as much attention as his electrifying performances and genre-spanning recording career, has died...

Zoo animals paw, claw, bite and smash into scary-looking pumpkins being offered as early Halloween treats in Belgium.

Nigeria's government declared a cholera outbreak in the northeastern state of Borno on Sept. 14 after cases were confirmed in seven local government areas. The rapid spread appears to be linked to mon...

Journalist and author Kamiab Ghorbanpour says board games, and board game cafes, have become popular in Iran because they let players explore ideas that couldn't be spoken of publicly, and provide you...

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen have finalized their divorce, they each announced Friday, ending the 13-year marriage between two superstars who respectively reached the pinnacles of fashion and footbal...

Scientists tracked a bar-tailed godwit's 11-day, non-stop flight from southwest Alaska to northeastern Tasmania, a jaunt that could be the longest recorded migration by a bird without stopping for foo...

While some sneakerheads swear off Yeezys and companies scrub Kanye West from their playlists following his antisemitic comments, others see a golden opportunity to profit after shoemaker Adidas ended ...

The Kremlin continues to insist that, as part of a campaign to fuel anti-Russia sentiment in the world, Ukraine will detonate a "dirty bomb" on its own territory, and blame Moscow for the subsequent...