At least one gunman opened fire on police Wednesday as they were serving a warrant in a Philadelphia neighborhood, wounding six officers and triggering a standoff that extended into the evening, au...

Stifling heat smothered states from Texas to South Carolina on Tuesday with temperatures that felt like 120 degrees (49 Celsius), making it difficult to be outside for long, much less work or play....

Sheikh Saaliq is an Associated Press reporter based in New Delhi My car moved within a column of Indian army vehicles and a cloud of dust. On a normal day, it would have been a smooth journey fr...

The Latest on the aftermath of Jeffrey Epstein's death (all times local): 10:05 p.m. A person familiar with the probe of Jeffrey Epstein's death at a federal jail says guards are suspected of...

Flights resumed at Hong Kong's airport Wednesday after two days of disruptions marked by outbursts of violence that highlight the hardening positions of pro-democracy protesters and the authorities...

Amid revelations about the circumstances aroundJeffrey Epstein's death,federal authorities have intensified parallel inquiries into what went wrong at the Manhattan jail where he was behind bars an...

Protesters severely crippled operations at Hong Kong’s international airport for a second day Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all remaining flights out of the city after demonstrators took o...

Two of four experimental Ebola drugs being tested in Congo seem to be saving lives, international health authorities announced Monday. The preliminary findings prompted an early halt to a major ...

The Trump administration is moving forward with one of its most aggressive steps yet to restrict legal immigration, denying green cards to many migrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouch...

The new Botanical Gardens has two new trees planted by the leadersof Barbados and Kenya. Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley planted a mahogany tree, and beside it the President of Kenya Uhuru K...

First Lady of Kenya,Margaret Wanjiru Gakuo visited the Edgar Cochrane Polyclinic on her husband's first official visit toBarbados. Bursting with questions for the medical staff on hand at th...

A rare tornado injured 19 people, two of them severely, in Luxembourg, while 15 soccer players were injured by a lightning strike in southern Germany as unseasonal storms hit northern Europe late F...

Police fired tear gas at protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday after anti-government marches went ahead in two areas of the Chinese territory in defiance of an official ban. Tear gas was fired at ...

A landslide buried more than a dozen village houses in southeastern Myanmar, killing at least 34 people, an official said Saturday. Rescuers were using backhoes and bulldozers to clear the mud a...

Financier Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in New York, a former law enforcement official said Saturday. [related node_id='6f26350c-1e9c-4576-9eb1-...

The United States often takes a leading role in calling out the world's most dangerous places, warning its people about the risks of traveling to countries that are at war, under terrorist threats,...

Large chunks of Britain, including London, were hit with a power cut Friday afternoon that disrupted train travel and snarled rush-hour traffic. Power supplier National Grid said issues with two...

Hundreds of people gathered outside of the Hong Kong Space Museum on Wednesday night to stage a lively "laser show" rally toprotest againstthe arrest of a student union leaderfor possession of a ba...

Navigating through narrow, winding streets, Reyaz Ahmed embarks upon a daily drill under an indefinite 24-hour curfew in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The 35-year-old trader gets up around 5 a.m. a...

Isolated on an emerald green hunk of volcanic rock closer to Tokyo than Honolulu, people on the U.S. territory of Guam like to joke that whatever happens on the mainland takes a long time to reach ...