China's government strongly backed Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam's embattled administration on Tuesday, saying the occupation and vandalizing of the city's legislature by pro-democracy prote...

Editor's note--Warning: Graphic content A two-year-old girl was eaten alive by crocodiles after wandering into the enclosure on her family's farm. Rom Roath Neary had been staying alone with ...

Dutch prosecutors said Monday they have a "strong indication" that a man accused of fatally shooting four passengers on a tram in the central city of Utrecht in March had a "terrorist motive." I...

Sea ice along northern Alaska disappeared far earlier than normal this spring, alarming coastal residents who rely on wildlife and fish. Ice melted as a result of exceptionally warm ocean temper...

All ten people on board a small plane were killed in a fiery crash Sunday morning when the aircraft struggled to gain altitude after taking off from a suburban Dallas airport, veered to one side an...

Exuberant crowds carrying rainbow colours filled New York City streets Sunday for one of the largest pride parades in the history of the gay-rights movement, a dazzling celebration of the 50th anni...

The Taliban set off a powerful bomb in downtown Kabul on Monday, killing at least one person and wounding more than a hundred, and sending a cloud of smoke billowing over the Afghan capital. At ...

The Latest on protests on the anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China (all times local): 6:35 p.m. A group of protesters in Hong Kong has torn down part of glass and metal exterior wall of...

The young father and daughter who drowned in each other's arms last week in an attempt to swim across the Rio Grande to the United States have been returned to El Salvador for an expected burial at...

Negotiations aimed at breaking Venezuela's political standoff will resume next week, likely on the Caribbean island of Barbados, according to three people familiar with the talks between representa...

The Senate's top Democrat said Sunday that the U.S. government should step up efforts to investigate the deaths of at least eight Americans in the Dominican Republic this year. The Bureau of Alc...

Mexican immigration officials say they have returned 81 migrants to Haiti after attending to "technical" considerations and seeing to the security of the captain of the plane taking them to the Car...

The emotions of the family members of the two missing American visitors, Oscar Suarez and Magdalena Devil, are running high as their second 72-hour search window counts down. With less than 24 h...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons (36 metric tons) of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great P...

OSAKA, Japan (AP) — President Donald Trump declared relations with China were "right back on track" after he and President Xi Jinping sought Saturday to de-escalate a prolonged trade war between th...

OSAKA, Japan (AP) —Russian President Vladimir Putin fired a new broadside against Western liberalism on Saturday, saying that policies such as welcoming migrants have hurt people's interests. Sp...

Police say a woman is charged with murder in the deaths of her twin 2-year-old daughters, who were found in cardiac arrest inside a car at a Long Island park. Suffolk County police say they rece...

World leaders attending a Group of 20 summit in Japan that began Friday are clashing over the values that have served for decades as the foundation of their cooperation as they face calls to fend o...

Senior officials from Iran and the remaining signatories to its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers were meeting Friday as tensions in the Persian Gulf simmer and Tehran is poised to surpass a uran...

One German man found a temporary solution to beat Europe's record heatwave: by riding his moped naked. Police stopped the manwho was riding in the northeastern German state of Brandenburg. He ha...