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Jean-Jacques Savin is attempting to navigate the vast Atlantic Ocean in pursuit of the Caribbean using only the wind and current to get him there.        

Richard Overton, America's oldest man and oldest-living veteran, died in Texas on Thursday, according to local reports. He was 112. Overton, who lived in Austin, was a jovial figure in his neighborhood and was known to e...

California authoritiesare searching for a man who killed a small-town police officer and is in the country illegally, according to a county sheriff.        

A far-right youth movement is part of a growing network of actors giving extremism a friendly face -- and worrying intelligence officials.

The president's comments and his encouragement of supporters in the crowd in Iraq and Germany veered from norms even as he upheld the convention of visiting soldiers abroad during the holidays.

Between heavy sobs, Catarina Alonzo explained that when her husband left Guatemala to try to reach the United States, they hoped taking their 8-year-old son would make it easier for the pair to get in. Instead, the boy f...

As moves toward peace pick up in Afghanistan, the Taliban are trying to show they have changed since the brutal days of the 1990s when they banned music and girls' education and carried out public executions in Kabul's f...

The names, birth dates and addresses of nearly 1,000 defectors was stolen.

A well-known climate change expert and professor at the University of Minnesota choked and brutally assaulted his fiancé, who told cops she fears he will kill her, according to a criminal complaint. Aaron Herbert Doerin...

The USA's weather isn't going quietly into the new year, thanks to apair of blizzards and a widespreadflood threat.        

More than 46 million people are registered to vote, the run-up to which was marked by deadly violence.

Macedonia's president has urged parliament to reject a deal with Greece under which his country would amend its constitution and change its name to North Macedonia in return for being …

The Latest on Congo's presidential election (all times local): 4:30 p.m. Congo's health ministry says the uproar over a delayed presidential election in two cities hit by a deadly Ebola …

Police say two women in their late 30s were also killed, and four others seriously hurt A baby was among three British tourists who died when their 4x4 plunged off a bridge in Iceland, police have said. Four other Briton...

Peter Bennett-Jones, who was criticised over tackling of sexual harassment, quits as UN sack aid worker in Uganda The chairman of Save the Children UK has resigned after complaints by staff that he was not doing enough t...

Commemorative stamp, which depicted US troops landing in Indonesia, is being withdrawn Royal Mail has apologised and announced it will withdraw a commemorative D-day stamp which depicts US troops in Indonesia, rather tha...

Lebanon had elections seven months ago after a hiatus of nine years but a political stalemate has ensued ever since.

Little progress has been made to resolve the partial government shutdown nearly a week after it began, as President Trump and his Democratic opponents are both apparently under the impression they have the upper hand in ...

In the midst of a strike by doctors demanding higher pay and better conditions, patients are suffering without treatment.

The children were left alone with a loaded shotgun and a .22-caliber rifle

The boy was skiing on a closed black diamond run in the French Alps when he found himself buried in snow and ice for nearly an hour in the aftermath of an avalanche.

The storm follows the same track as 2013’s devastating typhoon Haiyan.