Pipe bombs were sent on Wednesday to Barack Obama, top Democrats and CNN, hate figures for Donald Trump supporters, while the US president tempered calls for unity by attacking the media for its "endless hostility."
Norway hosts NATO's biggest exercises since the end of the Cold War from Thursday, to remind Russia the Alliance stands united despite seeds of doubt planted by US President Donald Trump.
The World Economic Forum has released the latest version of its Global Competitiveness Index which saw differing fortunes for longstanding Asian giants.
Canada will host trade officials from the European Union, Japan and others for two-day talks starting on Wednesday aimed at shaping long-delayed reforms to the global trading system that have sparked tensions among major economies.
The United Nations warned on Tuesday that Yemen was on the verge of widespread famine.
The United States said on Tuesday it was revoking visas of Saudis involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as President Donald Trump ridiculed the kingdom's response as "one of the worst cover-ups" in history.
US National Security Advisor John Bolton on Tuesday praised "productive" talks with President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials despite an earlier announcement by Washington that it would pull out of a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty.
Thousands of Honduran migrants heading to the United States -- a caravan President Donald Trump has called an "assault on our country" -- stopped to rest on Tuesday after walking for two days into Mexican territory.
China's President Xi Jinping officially opened the world's longest sea bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States is ready to build up its nuclear arsenal after announcing it is abandoning a Cold War-era nuclear treaty, as Russia warned the withdrawal could cripple global security.
A new treatment for a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis can cure more than 90 percent of sufferers, according to a trial hailed Monday as a "game changer" in the fight against the global killer.
Thirty-five Nobel and top mathematics prize winners have warned British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker that scientific research will suffer a serious setback without a good Brexit deal.
Paul Biya, who has ruled Cameroon since 1982, won a landslide victory on Monday in a controversial presidential election as the government tightened security and gunfire erupted in the country's volatile English-speaking regions.
Only weeks ago, the world’s leading climate scientists warned that global warming by 2˚C would have even worse impacts than previously anticipated. The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called for more rapid decarbonization of the global economy to limit warming to 1.5˚.
Poland's governing nationalists came out on top in regional elections on Sunday, but were losing to opposition centrists in mayoral races in large cities including the capital Warsaw, exit polls showed.
A Peruvian court postponed Sunday a ruling on a prosecutor's demand to put opposition leader Keiko Fujimori in preventive detention for 36 months, which she called a conspiracy to "bury" her presidential hopes.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison issued a national apology to victims of child sex abuse in an emotional address to parliament on Monday, acknowledging the state failed to stop "evil dark crimes" committed over decades.
Thousands of Honduran migrants whose trek toward the United States has triggered tirades from US President Donald Trump, forged on Sunday after crossing a river into Mexico, marching for hours.
South and North Korea will not have a meeting at their joint liaison office in the North’s border town of Kaesong this week, Seoul’s unification ministry said on Friday.
Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said on Friday that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is planning a maritime exercise with the US Navy next year.
