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The agreement seeks to stabilize the increase in the global average temperature

Veteran homicide investigators in New York and Washington, DC, on Monday questioned the way local and federal authorities in Texas handled the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. "It's not unreasonable to ask ...

Thirty years after the first of the Grim Sleeper serial killer victims was found fatally shot and discarded in a South Los Angeles alley, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. will face a jury Tuesday in a downtown courtroom.

More evidence linking the Zika virus to microcephaly birth defects in babies is found, scientists in Brazil say.

Lydia Berkennou says she will never forget the night when terrorists stormed the Bataclan concert hall and shot dead 90 people.

TOKYO -- Japanese police say an actor has died after getting stabbed in the stomach during a rehearsal with what is believed to be either a real or mock samurai sword. Tokyo police said Tuesday that they are investigatin...

Missing doctor Rose Polge is understood to have left a message for a loved one that is believed to have mentioned Jeremy Hunt.

Police say a man who was undergoing a mental evaluation has died after officers used a stun gun on him

Ankara tells the US and other coalition members a ground operation is the only way to stop the war, but it will not act alone.

The Philippine government has approved the auction of former first lady Imelda Marcos's jewelry collection -- worth approximately $21 million in total.

France and Turkey denounce raids in which up to 50 people were killed as Assad casts doubt on prospects for a truce.

South Korea's leader says shutting an industrial zone is just the start of her response to Kim Jong-Un's apparent nuclear test.

Early trials of a potential cancer treatment in which white blood cells are modified to target certain types of the disease have been an "extraordinary" success, scientists said Monday.

Senate GOP uniting behind McConnell in insisting Obama's successor fill Supreme Court vacancy

Prosecutors say they believe the head-on train crash in southern Germany last week was caused by "human error" on the part of the train dispatcher

Russia on Tuesday rebuffed claims that its warplanes struck a hospital in northern Syria in airstrikes the previous day that killed at least nine people as Syrian government forces and a predominantly Kurdish coalition a...

Women in north-east Nigeria are viewed with suspicion when they return home after leaving Boko Haram, and do not receive adequate support, finds new report Women and girls freed from Boko Haram face discrimination and re...

Thailand's royal palace says 88-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, is suffering from a 38.1 C (100.6 F) fever, fatigue, rapid breathing and occasional high blood pressure. …

Marauding lawyers attack students, academics and journalists

Groups of students, journalists and teachers are gathering for protests in the Indian capital after a student union leader's arrest and subsequent violence by supporters of the Hindu nationalist party, who accuse the dem...

Two foreigners accused of carrying out a deadly bombing of a Bangkok landmark last year were brought to a military court Tuesday for the start of a highly anticipated trial that's been marred by one of the accused claimi...

Leak from internal probe puts top boss under fresh scrutiny