More than 8,500 children were used as soldiers last year in various conflicts across the world and nearly 2,700 others were killed, the United Nations said on Monday.

Claudette regained tropical storm status and headed out to sea from the North Carolina coast Monday, less than two days after the system killed 14 people in Alabama, including nine children who died i...

Iran's president-elect said Monday he would not meet with U.S. President Joe Biden nor negotiate over Tehran's ballistic missile program and its support of regional militias, sticking to a hard-line p...

The coelacanth — a wondrous fish that was thought to have gone extinct along with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago before unexpectedly being found alive and well in 1938 off South Africa's east...

The United Nations rights chief said on Monday she was "deeply disturbed" by continued reports of rights violations in Tigray, Ethiopia, including executions of civilians, sexual violence against chil...

With the arrival of Lilibet (Lili) Diana Mountbatten-Windsor earlier this month, the daughter of Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has a name that reflects both tradition and an emerging tre...

The World Health Organization is setting up a technology transfer hub for producing mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in South Africa, officials said Monday, as they reiterated their call for stepped-up efforts ...

Jon Rahm is the first Spaniard to win the U.S. Open. Two monumental birdie putts clinched it

Thousands took to the streets across Brazil to protest against President Jair Bolsonaro's pandemic response as the country surpassed 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday.

Parades, picnics and lessons in history were part of Juneteenth celebrations on Saturday in the United States, a day that carried even more significance after Congress and President Joe Biden created ...

Canadians fully immunized with two shots of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine may now attend a highly anticipated Broadway production featuring Bruce Springsteen, but at least one Canadian hopin...

Police say a driver in a pickup truck has plowed into bicyclists competing in a community road race in Arizona, critically injuring several riders.

A Hong Kong court ordered the top editor of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and the head of its parent company held without bail on Saturday in the first hearing since their arrest two days ago un...

Iran's hardline chief justice won a landslide victory on Saturday in the country's presidential election, a vote that both propelled the supreme leader's protégé into Tehran's highest civilian posit...

Number of deaths far below the more than 11,300 people in West Africa who lost their lives during an outbreak of the disease in 2014-2016.

Euro Cup players taking a knee in the name of racial injustice is dividing teams and their supporters, but no team has been more steadfast in this than England — despite the boos by some of their ow...

Eight children in a van from a youth home for abused or neglected children were killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on a wet interstate that also killed a man and his baby in another vehicle, the mo...

American politicians are fuming over the latest Canadian border restrictions. One member of Congress calls the latest extension "bullshit," illogical and immoral. Several are pressing U.S. President J...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday called for a stop to the flow of arms to Myanmar and urged the military to respect November election results and release political detainees, including le...

U.S. Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a "teaching document" that many of them hope will rebuke Catholic politicians, including President Joe Biden, who continue to receive Comm...