San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to ban the use of facial recognition software by police and other city departments, becoming the first U.S. city to outlaw a rapidly developing technology th...

A heroic man saved a six-year-old boy hanging from the seventh-floor window of a residential building after his head got stuck in security nets. The video, filmed in Yantai City in eastern China...

A man who reportedly told investigators that he went to the Mall of America "looking for someone to kill" pleaded guilty Tuesday to throwing a 5-year-old boy from a third-floor balcony and faces 19...

The bodies of two more people have been found after small sightseeing planes crashed in Alaska, the Coast Guard says. Coast Guard Lt. Brian Dykens said six people have died in the collision Mond...

Alabama's Senate passed a near-total ban on abortion Tuesday, sending what would be the nation's most stringent abortion law to the state's Republican governor. The GOP-dominated Senate voted 25...

Arelys Pulido had already lost one baby in a neglected Venezuelan hospital where doctors and medical gear are in increasingly short supply, so when she got pregnant again she decided to give birth ...

Special Envoy to the Prime Minister of Barbados on Investment and Financial Services, Avinash Persaud has responded to claims published last week in the Financial Times (FT). The article headlin...

Three people were killed after two sightseeing airplanes carrying cruise ship tourists collided in mid-air Monday near a southeast Alaska town, the Coast Guard said. Three others are missing aft...

U.S. officials listed $300 billion more of Chinese goods for possible tariff hikes while Beijing vowed Tuesday to “fight to the finish” in an escalating trade battle that is fueling fears about dam...

A top private hospital in Bangkok infected a child cancer patient with HIV during a botched blood transfusion, it has emerged. Japanese resident Takeru Noppasin Jin, now 24, and his family paid ...

Swedish prosecutors said Monday they are reopening a rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and will seek his extradition from Britain. The move sets up a legal battle with the Unite...

An eight-month-old boy in a baby walker was crushed to death after rolling into the path of a lorry - while his mother played on her phone. The baby, named Nontawat Saingam, was playing in the f...

A Myanmar National Airlines plane made an emergency landing at Mandalay International Airport on Sunday, using only its rear wheels after the front landing gear failed to deploy. All 82 passenge...

Italy is explaining its refusal to recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president, saying it doesn't want to contribute to any "radicalization" of sides in the political cr...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Saturday said he's instructed his political envoy in Washington to immediately open relations with the U.S. military in a bid to bring more pressure on P...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeowill head to Russia to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin amid disputes over Venezuela's political turmoil and other issues. Pompeo will arrive in Moscow on M...

Spanish police say they have arrested Venezuela's former minister of electrical development in Madrid on a warrant from the United States. Javier Alvarado Ochoa is under investigation in the U.S...

August 2019 will mark 400 years since enslaved Africans landed in Jamestown, Virginia, beginning what was widely regarded as the start of the African slave trade to North America. To commemorate...

A U.N. migration official and Tunisia's state news agency say as many as 70 migrants have drowned when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea and at least 16 other people have been rescued. ...

A brave fireman who catches hundreds of snakes a month has spoken about his deadly job and the soaring numbers of serpents in the Thai capital. Phinyo Pukphinyo, 49, became a fireman when he was...