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One of three short-range ballistic missiles that North Korea fired early Saturday blew up "almost immediately," while the other two flew about 155 miles into the sea, US officials said. North Korea likely fired the missi...

Rescue workers scramble to provide aid to millions of people stranded by worst monsoon floods in South Asia for years.

Mayweather moved to 50-0, passing Rocky Marciano's record, in what is likely the final bout of his career with a technical knockout in the 10th round.        

"It's so dangerous that people would give themselves the death penalty," chief Acevedo expressed.        

Protesters opposing a right-wing gathering in liberal San Francisco claimed victory Saturday when the event was cancelled after city officials walled off a city park -- a move that the event's organizer said was more abo...

A 31-year-old Galewood man was ordered held on $1 million bail for acting as a lookout as an accomplice fatally beat a homeless man with a bat and a brick, prosecutors said in court Saturday. Dressed in a white plastic s...

Footage of Mattis' off-the-cuff remarks recently surfaced on social media.

An Afghan official says two police officers, including a district police chief, have been killed when their convoy was attacked by militants in western Nimroz province. Gen. Jialani Abubaker, provincial …

Five climbers fell to their deaths in the Austrian Alps on Sunday and a sixth is in intensive care, according to an official and a doctor.

Yingluck Shinawatra, the former prime minister, is believed to have gone into exile rather than face a possible 10 years in prison on negligence charges.

Lebanon's army and the armed group Hezbollah have announced a pause in their fight against ISIS on the country's border with Syria to allow final negotiations for the release of soldiers being held hostage.

As Joseph Arpaio's federal case headed toward trial this past spring, President Donald Trump wanted to act to help the former Arizona county sheriff who had become a campaign-trail companion and a partner in their crusad...

An ambitious tree-planting campaign aims to counteract the CO2 released by Donald Trump's climate policies A campaign to plant enough trees to offset Donald Trump's climate policies is under way. Organisers hope to plant...

Pakistani police have used tear gas and batons to disperse anti-U.S protesters in the southern port city of Karachi. Police officer Irfan Baloch says police took action Sunday when a …

Trump ignited a political storm after signing a directive to ban transgender individuals from the military and pardoning controversial Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, all as the storm grew.

He spent the morning tweeting about a slew of topics

After more than five decades of battle in Colombia's jungles, the nation's largest rebel movement initiated the launch of its political party Sunday at a concrete convention center in the …

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced Sunday he is expelling the head of a U.N. anti-corruption commission that is investigating the president's campaign financing. A video posted on the government's Twitter …

He served six terms as sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona before earning a criminal conviction and a presidential pardon. The Times first mentioned him in 1994.

Hundreds of protesters are gathering in front of Israel's attorney general's home to demand he indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges

Police questioning a man on suspicion of murder following the death of a toddler at a house in Manchester have confirmed officers were called to the same property just two days earlier.

Visitor figures hit a 10-year high after 'catastrophic' 2016, fuelled by anti-Paris comments made by US president On a warm August day, the world's most famous boulevard, the Champs-Elysées, is heaving. Li-na and Zhangl...