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In the wake of stabbing attacks and a shooting rampage last month, the German government is planning to tell citizens they should prepare themselves for a catastrophic event by having a stockpile of food and water, a Ger...

Thousands of people swarm a Taiwanese intersection in a scene reminiscent of science fiction

For a nation known for its obsession for gold, Team China seemed to have had a rough time in Rio de Janeiro.

South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korea's threat of nuclear strikes in response to the exercises that it calls an invasion rehearsal. …

In an unassuming Quezon City neighborhood, across from a municipal library and around the corner from a police station stands the local jail.

The explosive wildfire sent thousands fleeing for their lives.

A man in India spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed from his stomach, according to the doctor who led the operation.

In pictures: The best and most bizarre moments of the Rio 2016 closing ceremony

Justice Secretary Liz Truss is to set up special units within prisons to hold Islamist extremists most likely to radicalise other inmates.

France's former conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy has formally announced he is running for the presidency again in next year's elections.

Under President Rodrigo Duterte, 712 suspects have died in police operations and 1,067 have been killed by vigilantes, the nation's police chief says.

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked an Obama administration directive on bathroom rights for transgender students in U.S. public schools. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth i...

The Ethiopian marathon runner who made an anti-government gesture at the Rio Games while approaching the finish line will not face prosecution upon his return home and will have "a heroic welcome," a government spokesman...

The suicide attacker who detonated his explosives amid an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people, was an Islamic State group child as young as 12 years old. The extremist group h...

The marathon silver medalist made a highly charged gesture of solidarity with the Oromo people as he crossed the finish line Sunday

HASAKA, Syria

Bouncing subways, diving sprinters and a criminal investigation

The curtain fell and finally there was a sense the Games had managed to capture the imagination, despite several reminders of the problems encountered in Rio Perhaps appropriately at the end of a by turns stormy and thri...

Alayna Ertl was abducted from her home and killed, according to police

Nearly five years after Canada's largest city introduced so-called open gangway trains, riders have given the trains a ringing endorsement. Now officials in New York are embracing the design.

President Obama is expected to travel to Louisiana on Tuesday.

Nearly a third of his thesis was lifted without citation from other writers, according to a report