A Philippine air force C-130 aircraft carrying troops crashed in a southern province Sunday after missing the runway and at least 40 people on board were rescued from the burning wreckage, the militar...

Cuba prepared to evacuate people from the island's southern region on Sunday amid fears that tropical storm Elsa could unleash heavy flooding after battering several Caribbean islands, killing at lea...

Cyprus asked fellow European Union nations on Saturday to help battle a huge forest fire in a mountainous region of the east Mediterranean island nation that has forced the evacuation of at least seve...

Environmentalists criticized Mexico's state-owned oil company Saturday after a gas leak at an underwater pipeline unleashed a subaquatic fireball that appeared to boil the waters of the Gulf of Mexico...

Rescuers suspended their search for the living and the dead in the rubble of a collapsed South Florida condo building Saturday to allow crews to start preparing the unstable remainder of the structure...

England has reached the European Championship semifinals by beating Ukraine 4-0.

A Vatican judge on Saturday indicted 10 people, including a once-powerful cardinal, on charges including embezzlement, abuse of office, extortion and fraud in connection with the Secretariat of State'...

A powerful mudslide carrying a deluge of black water and debris crashed into rows of houses in a town west of Tokyo following heavy rains on Saturday, leaving at least 19 people missing, officials sai...

Countries across Europe are scrambling to accelerate coronavirus vaccinations and outpace the spread of the more infectious delta variant, in a high-stakes race to prevent hospital wards from filling ...

India has confirmed 400,000 deaths from COVID-19, half in the past two months, as the virulent delta variant infected hundreds of thousands daily.

The charges will do nothing to dissuade Donald Trump from running for president again if that's what he chooses to do. If that's all prosecutors have, it's a decidedly ho-hum finale to a years-long le...

The Boy Scouts of America have reached an $850-million US agreement with attorneys representing some 60,000 victims of child sex abuse in what could prove to be a pivotal moment in the organization's ...

The pilots of Transair Flight 810 reported engine trouble and were trying to return to Honolulu when they were forced to land the Boeing 737 in the water, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FA...

Air Canada is seeking the dismissal of the U.S. Department of Transportation's US$25.5-million fine over the airline's alleged failure to provide prompt refunds after cancelling flights amid the COVID...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation on Friday that will require businesses to report their greenhouse gas emissions and has been described as Russia's first step towards carbon regulat...

While daily new COVID-19 cases are now averaging in the single digits in Washington, the opioid crisis there is showing no sign of letting up, making outreach services increasingly vital. ...

Driven by the delta variant, a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across the African continent where new cases, hospital admissions and deaths are increasing.

In an encouraging burst of hiring, America's employers added 850,000 jobs in June, well above the average of the previous three months and a sign that companies may be having an easier time finding en...

Sailors have been stuck on shipping vessels for months after their contracts expired, and while the shipping industry blames COVID-19 protocols, the seafarers' union says more must be done to help the...

On what would have been her 60th birthday, a statue of Princess Diana was unveiled by her sons at Kensington Palace. They appeared together, sparking speculation about the state of the rift between Pr...