The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 has struck southern Peru. The event's epicentre was 27 kilometres (16 miles) north-northeast of Aza...

YouTube said Thursday it will turn off comments on nearly all videos featuring kids — potentially affecting millions of posts on the site — after reports last week that paedophiles were leaving ina...

The parent company of British Airways is buying up to 42 Boeing 777 long-haul passenger jets in a multi-billion dollar deal. Thursday's announcement by the International Airlines Group consortiu...

The family of a Palestinian lawmaker says Israeli authorities have released Khalida Jarrar after 20 months of holding her in detention without raising charges. The lawmaker's husband, Ghassan Ja...

Talks between President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un collapsed Thursday after the two sides failed to bridge a standoff over U.S. sanctions on the reclusive nation, a dispiriting end ...

In a damning depiction of Donald Trump, the president's former lawyer cast him as a racist and a con man who used his inner circle to cover up politically damaging allegations about sex and who lie...

Israeli soldiers intentionally fired on civilians and could have committed crimes against humanity during a string of crackdowns against Palestinian demonstrators last year in Gaza that left 189 pe...

For these men dancing in Salamiyah camp for displaced people in Mosul, today is a day of celebration. They are performing the Jazeera traditional dance at a wedding party in the camp. But for many ...

Shocking footage shows the devastating level of plastic pollution scattered across the once-beautiful Kuta Beach in Bali, Indonesia. The garbage washed up on the sand after heavy rain and winds ...

A speeding railcar crashed into a barrier at Cairo's main train station, causing its fuel tank to explode and triggering a huge fire that left at least 25 people dead on Wednesday, officials said. ...

Parents in the UK and the US are being warned of a sinister video circulating on social media programs such as Whatsapp and YouTube, which allegedly encourages children to harm themselves. The B...

The Latest on the summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump (all times local): 7 p.m. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are strik...

Nigeria's president was declared the clear winner of a second term in Africa's largest democracy early Wednesday, after a campaign in which he urged voters to give him another chance to tackle gapi...

The collapse of an unlicensed gold mine in Indonesia buried dozens of people, and rescuers dug desperately with their bare hands and farm tools on Wednesday to unearth victims calling for help from...

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer is planning to tell a House committee that Trump knew ahead of time that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and...

Police in the US found a Pennsylvania woman and her teenage daughter in an apartment with the bodies of five relatives they had killed, including three children, authorities said Tuesday. Shana ...

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen will start a three-day gauntlet of congressional appearances by giving a closed-door interview to the Senate intelligence committee, wh...

An opioid crisis has quietly spread in the Gaza Strip, trapping thousands in the hell of addiction and adding another layer of misery to the blockaded and impoverished coastal territory. The sco...

The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy's credib...

The US Department of State issued a statement noting that the United States has taken action against four governors aligned with the “illegitimate” Maduro regime. According to a statement issued...