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The Republican front-runner fires back after the Democratic debate

Unseasonably warm temperatures block Muscovites' winter fun, spark dark humor

Flowers start to bloom and hibernating animals keep fattening up as winter struggles to set in across northern Europe.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said Monday that those who "reject Syrian refugees, and especially if they are Muslim, are the best allies of the propaganda and the recruitment of extremist groups." It was a veiled...

Both Democrats and Republicans demonstrated increased support for legal abortion, a poll found

UN official says Somalia is a fragile and recovering but no longer a failed state

Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders is condemning a prison sentence for a Saudi journalist who called for religious and political reforms in the kingdom, saying it's "unjust and disproportionate." …

The Iraqi military said Tuesday it was trying to recapture the center of the key city of Ramadi, a provincial capital whose fall to ISIS in the spring spurred tens of thousands of residents to flee and drew U.S. criticis...

CNN looks back at the flood of refugees to Europe in 2015, the tragedies and what may be next.

Fine, thought to be largest imposed on a North Sea operator, welcomed by environmental campaigners but union leaders fear it will have little impact The French oil and gas multinational Total has been fined more than £1...

An international human rights group has urged an investigation into Burundi's forces for alleged human rights violations including extra-judicial executions, rape and looting during the deadliest day in the months of unr...

Reporters can sleep a little easier tonight, knowing that Donald Trump has no plans to kill them any time soon. During a rally in Michigan on Monday, the Republican presidential candidate crowed about Vladimir Putin's re...

Panama's Supreme Court has order the detention of former President Ricardo Martinelli to face charges that he illegally spied on opponents. …

Not so long ago, the most famous naturalist and nature broadcaster in the world, David Attenborough, was a self-professed climate change skeptic.

Bernie Sanders did not mention the DNC data breach controversy during his first public stop on the campaign trail since the news broke last week that some of his staff in

Texas prosecutor: No indictment in Sandra Bland jail death; Charges on her arrest not decided

Emergency admissions to hospital due to alcohol have increased by more than 50% in nine years in England and now top 250,000 a year, a report finds.

A New York Police Department officer was among six Americans killed in Monday in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, the New York Daily News reported. NYPD Sgt. Joe Lemm died when an attacker drove a motorcycle equipped wi...

A passenger said Muslim passengers were ordered to split from the Christians, but refused.

A new study says that wild bees in the US are declining in many areas because of increases in the amount of corn being grown for biofuel.

The MoD insists the personnel will not be deployed in a combat role as the Taliban continues to gain ground in Helmand.

The president also plans to spend his final year in office working to spur other countries and the private sector to contribute more humanitarian aid, his United Nations ambassador said Monday.