More than 550 people took to the streets of Tanzania’s biggest city on Saturday morning to protest the trade in ivory. The ...

Britain could change its economic model to regain competitiveness if it were to leave the European Union without an agreement on ...

South Korea’s special prosecutor Sunday delayed a decision on whether to seek a warrant to arrest Samsung Group leader Jay Y. ...

Myanmar’s strongest ethnic armed group is set for its biggest leadership shake-up in a quarter century, senior sources told ...

The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland, is teaching some of its creatures, like birds and tortoises, to cooperate with ...

Thailand faces more hardship from unseasonable floods that have killed 40 people in its south, with more rain expected in the ...

Iraqi forces are slowly securing the sprawling Mosul University campus as they battle Islamic State militants.    Officials say ...

A Syrian monitor says Islamic State militants have launched an attack on government-held areas of the Syrian city of Deir ...

Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of modern China’s Pinyin Romanization system, died Saturday at the age of 111. ...

Police in Uganda have re-arrested a traditional leader who is facing treason and other charges hours after he was granted bail by ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas heads into a meeting Saturday with Pope Francis as he rallies international support ahead of ...

With dozens of supporters packing a Miami federal courthouse, a former Haitian coup leader and recent senator-elect pleaded not ...

Amid growing alarm Europe may be the next target of Russian cyberattacks, some believe France — which is gearing up for ...

A newborn girl stolen from a Florida hospital 18 years ago has been found alive – and overwhelmed – in South ...

1914 — Cyprus annexed by Britain, after more than 300 years of Ottoman rule. 1925 — Becomes British colony. 1955 ...

Lord Snowdon, former husband of Britain’s Princess Margaret, died peacefully at his home Friday at the age of 86. Snowdon, born ...

Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday filed corruption charges against Decal do Brasil co-founder Mariano Marcondes Ferraz, accusing ...

Bosnia’s Serb leadership halted contact with the country’s international peace envoy on Thursday, demanding an ...

Former Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday formally announced a new effort aimed at challenging the partisan gerrymandering ...

El Salvador, one of the world’s deadliest countries, has recorded a rare day without a single homicide.   National Civil ...

Trymore “Tiara” Gendi of Zimbabwe clearly remembers the moment her life changed forever. In 2008, at age 16, she was outed as ...

Foreclosure proceedings affected nearly a million U.S. homes and other real estate last year, down 14 percent from 2015 and down ...

For the first time, President-elect Donald Trump acknowledged Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee’s computers ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, at his Senate confirmation hearing, voiced ...