Money to fight the outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in the United States is running out, US President Barack Obama said Thursday, calling the situation "critical" and urging lawmakers to act.
A federal court in Argentina on Wednesday blocked the government's move to slash electricity subsidies, an unpopular policy that has sent customers' bills soaring.
A woman was killed and five people injured in a knife attack in central London on Wednesday which police said they are investigating for possible terrorist links.
Internal party turmoil over Donald Trump spilled into public alarm on Wednesday after unprecedented self-inflicted mistakes by the Republican nominee, as some conservatives prepared to do the unthinkable: vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
North Korea fired a ballistic missile directly into Japanese-controlled waters for the first time on Wednesday, drawing an outraged response from Tokyo and ramping up tensions with the United States and South Korea.
Nobel prize-winning Egyptian chemist Ahmad Zewail, who served as a science and technology advisor to US President Barack Obama, died Tuesday in the United States at the age of 70, Egypt's presidency announced.
The UN agency responsible for air travel standards on Tuesday urged airports to start preparing now for severe impacts on operations related to global warming.
People infected with a common parasitic worm may be twice as likely to acquire the HIV virus that causes AIDS, a field study from Tanzania reported on Wednesday.
France has introduced sea patrols for passenger ferries to and from Britain, after a string of jihadist attacks in recent months that have shaken the country, a marine police spokesman said on Tuesday.
US billionaire Warren Buffett challenged Donald Trump Monday to release his tax returns, a feat which the Republican presidential candidate has so far resisted.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Monday accused Croatia of threatening peace in the Balkans after the Supreme Court in Zagreb quashed a verdict against a former MP convicted of war crimes for killing Serbs.
Shells fired by Syrian rebel groups killed at least 28 civilians in southwestern districts of the battleground city of Aleppo over the last 24 hours, a monitor said late Monday.
Hillary Clinton got a support bounce of four to seven percentage points after the Democratic National Convention and now holds a substantial lead over Donald Trump in the White House race, polls released Monday showed.
Venezuela's opposition gathered enough signatures to proceed with efforts to call a referendum on removing President Nicolas Maduro, electoral authorities said Monday, without setting a date for the next step.
Authorities in Haiti canceled all local flights Monday as severe weather bears down on the impoverished Caribbean nation.
Hillary Clinton took a bus tour across the US "rust belt" region this weekend in a quest to win over white, working class voters who tend to support populist Republican Donald Trump.
Venezuelan electoral authorities are due to meet today to rule on the opposition's bid for a referendum on removing President Nicolas Maduro from power amid an economic implosion.
The Italian coastguard said the bodies of five migrants were recovered from the Mediterranean on Sunday, while more than 6,500 people had been rescued off Libya since Thursday.
A massive Taliban truck bomb struck a hotel for foreigners on the outskirts of Kabul early yesterday, officials said, just days after the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for 15 years.
A hot air balloon that went down in a fiery crash in a Texas pasture, killing all 16 people on board, likely struck a power line, an investigator said on Sunday.
