The milestone, which was last seen during the winter surge, is yet another bleak reminder of how quickly the delta variant of the coronavirus has spread through the country.

Taliban fighters entered the capital of northern Afghanistan's Jawzjan province Saturday, a provincial lawmaker said, after sweeping through nine of 10 districts in the province.

Police have arrested a man they say stabbed 10 passengers on a commuter train in Tokyo, in what public broadcaster NHK reported to be a random burst of violence unrelated to the ongoing Olympic Games....

Three large wildfires churned across Greece on Saturday, with one threatening whole towns and cutting Evia, the country's second-largest island, in half. Others engulfed forested mountainsides and ski...

Ethiopia's spreading Tigray conflict faced a dangerous escalation Friday as an Amhara regional official said Amhara forces will launch an offensive on Saturday against Tigray forces who have entered t...

The Taliban shot and killed the director of Afghanistan's government information media centre in Kabul on Friday, the latest killing of a government official and one that comes just days after an assa...

The Tokyo Olympics were supposed to showcase Fukushima's recovery, 10 years after it was devastated by an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. But one resident says there's been no recovery. ...

Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, was hospitalized after a demonstrator threw a rock at his head during an anti-vaccine protest led by nurses and other workers in ...

Norwegian Cruise Line asked a U.S. federal judge Friday to block a Florida law prohibiting cruise companies from demanding that passengers show written proof of coronavirus vaccination before they boa...

Scott Kevin Fairlamb, 44, a former mixed martial arts fighter whose brother is a U.S. Secret Service agent, was one of the very first rioters to breach the Capitol after other rioters smashed windows ...

A woman who accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping her breast at the governor's state residence filed a criminal complaint against him, the Albany County Sheriff's office said Friday. ...

Thousands of people fled wildfires burning out of control in Greece and Turkey on Friday, as a protracted heat wave turned forests into tinderboxes and flames threatened populated areas, electricity i...

Scientists have unveiled an extraordinary find — a lion cub found in the Arctic that may be the best preserved Ice Age animal ever found.

A sightseeing plane crashed Thursday in the area of Misty Fjords National Monument in southeast Alaska, killing all six people on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Half of all Americans are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a White House official said Friday, as the Biden administration continues to urge people to get the shot amid a resurgence in infection...

Two Belarus team coaches have been removed from the Olympics, four days after they were involved in trying to send sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya back to their country.

Some Afghan interpreters who risked their lives to flee the country are considering a dangerous new journey back into Afghanistan in the hopes of qualifying for resettlement in Canada.

Japan reached one million coronavirus cases on Friday, domestic media reported, as infections soared in Olympic host Tokyo and other urban areas as the country struggled to contain the delta variant. ...

Amazon has pushed back its return-to-office date for tech and corporate workers until January 2022 as COVID-19 cases surge nationally due to the delta variant.

A three-week-old wildfire engulfed a tiny Northern California mountain town, levelling most of its historic downtown and leaving blocks of homes in ashes as crews braced for another explosive run o...