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A toxic pall has formed south of the city, harming and even killing civilians and advancing troops alike

A group of senior doctors has released a list of 40 procedures it considers to have little or no benefit. Could we apply similar thinking to everyday life? If you've ever washed out a wound with saline instead of tap wat...

Amid severe shortages and the world's highest inflation, polls suggest as much as 80% of voters want Maduro gone this year

Leila de Lima tells the Guardian she fears for her own life after challenging president on a mission to wipe out drug dealers A leading member of the Philippines' senate has called for an international criminal investiga...

The Czech government has approved a plan to allow gays and lesbians living in a registered partnership to adopt the children of their partners.

Vietnamese authorities were searching Monday for 230 drug addicts are still at large after a mass escape from a rehabilitation center in southern Vietnam. Ho Van Loc, deputy director of …

Community policing is a two-way street

Horrifying dash-cam footage shows the moment a small French-charted plane on a surveillance mission over the Mediterranean crashed into a ball of flames shortly after takeoff in Malta Monday morning, killing all five Fre...

Trump camp admits uphill battle as Clinton looks down-ballot 'Mothers of the Movement' team with Clinton in bid for black vote Clinton begins to turn attention to helping Democrats retake Congress 2.48pm BST Donald Trump...

Flight from Belfast to Newark burning off fuel over Ireland's western seaboard in preparation for landing at Shannon airport A United Airlines flight is still burning off fuel over Ireland's western seaboard as it prepar...

The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 4:05 p.m.

Pope Francis is giving marching orders to members of his Jesuit order and their new superior

Two police officers are in a serious condition after being deliberately hit by a car.

Police treat an attack on two officers, who were seriously injured after a car was deliberately driven at them in Glasgow, as attempted murder.

The Latest on developments in Syria where government forces have renewed their attacks on eastern rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo (all times local): 3:37 p.m. French Foreign Minister …

Prosecutors in Hamburg say they are appealing against the verdicts and sentences issued in a rape case that prompted public uproar in Germany. A court in the northern city last …

Egypt's interior minister warned in comments published Monday that the country faced "unprecedented challenges" that required a "decisive" response by security forces, accusing the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood of schemi...

The prime minister is to offer the leaders of the three devolved governments a "direct line" to Brexit Secretary David Davis ahead of the UK's negotiations to leave the EU.

The financier accused of the killings of two Indonesian women admitted only to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility A Cambridge-educated British banker has pleaded not guilty to the murder of two young In...

GOP nominee's efforts to outline White House priorities muddied with unfounded claims of voter fraud and vows to retaliate against political enemies

Robert Doran, jailed over smuggling operation in 2012, tried to appeal order to pay £1.45m but the sum was increased A convicted tobacco smuggler has been stripped of a prime parcel of riverside land in Kent to meet his...

Two officers remain in hospital after car they had stopped reversed at them on Sunday in Drumchapel area of city Two police officers are in a serious condition after being hit by a car in an attack that is being treated ...