South African police and ambulances were at the site Thursday of an old gold mine shaft where around 4,000 illegal miners ...

The EU said Thursday that "unacceptable" attacks by Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev on the bloc, France and the Netherlands risked undermining the COP29 climate conference being held in Baku.

Typhoon Usagi slammed into the Philippines' already disaster-ravaged north on Thursday, as authorities rushed to evacuate ...

High above the sparkling surface of the Athens coastline, the cranes for building the 50-floor luxury tower centrepiece of ...

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are slightly higher in premarket trading. Short-term Treasury yields are lower, while longer-term yields are up. Bitcoin is just off a record high.

Chris Wood's prolific goal-scoring for Nottingham Forest is unprecedented for New Zealand football and may never be repeated, ...

When Bart Gruyaert agreed to help rebuild destroyed apartment blocks outside Kyiv, he hoped to be one cog in Ukraine's vast reconstruction programme, repairing just some of the damage wrought by ...

A young Russian went on trial Thursday for alleged "treason" after being jailed for supposedly burning the Koran and suffering a controversial prison beating from the son of Chechnya's strongman ...

Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression.

Azerbaijan's "doors are still open", the COP29 presidency's lead negotiator said Thursday after France's ecology minister cancelled her trip to the UN climate summit over "unacceptable" remarks by ...

Two days ahead of a referendum on a new constitution, Gabon's cities are adorned with signs urging citizens to vote "yes" while opponents of the junta-drafted law struggle to make themselves heard.

Dutch police said Thursday that they have opened an inquiry into alleged police brutality during and after a banned pro-Palestinian protest in Amsterdam in which 281 demonstrators were detained.