Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of...

The confirmed death toll from the devastating earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia's Sulawesi island neared 2,000 on Monday, but thousands more are believed unaccounted for and officials said search...

A Bulgarian television journalist has been murdered in the northern town of Ruse, The Guardian reports. The body of 30-year-old Viktoria Marinova, identified by authorities only by her initials,...

A crash involving a limousine at a popular upstate New York tourist spot killed 20 people, officials said Sunday. Local officials told the Times Union of Albany that a limo speeding...

The authoritarian president of Belarus has rejected a prospective law against domestic violence as Western "nonsense," saying that physical punishment could be "useful" in raising...

Tina Turner has revealed that she underwent a kidney transplant with an organ donated by her husband. The 78-year-old singer says in an upcoming autobiography that she has suffered from kidney...

An earthquake measured at 4.8 on the Richter scale hit the Catania province overnight, Italian media report. The tremor was felt at 2.34am two kilometres from Santa Maria di Licodia, in the...

The Nobel Peace Prize on Friday was awarded to a Congolese doctor and an Iraqi woman who once was a captive of the Islamic State group for their work to highlight and eliminate the use of sexual...

A man shot seven police officers in South Carolina, killing one, in a standoff so dangerous that police had to use a bullet-proof vehicle to rescue the wounded, authorities said. The man also...

British Prime Minister Theresa May battled to unite her Conservative Party on Wednesday, telling critics to abandon their dreams of a "perfect" Brexit and "come together" as divorce negotiations with...