The planet's coral reefs are likely facing warmer than normal water for an unprecedented third year in a row, extending what is already the longest coral bleaching event on record, US observers have said.
Rival camps vied to seize momentum on Monday for the final stretch before Britain's referendum on European Union membership, after the shock killing of a lawmaker halted the campaign.
ROME — Virginia Raggi has been elected as Rome's first female mayor in a triumph for the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) that represents a stinging setback for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
Thousands of demonstrators are hoping to make their voices heard next month during the Republican and Democratic party conventions.
A suicide bomber hit a minibus carrying foreign security guards and caused several casualties early on Monday in Kabul along the main road to the eastern city of Jalalabad, police said.
Fifty people died and another 53 were injured early yesterday when a heavily-armed gunman opened fire and seized hostages at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, police said, in the worst mass shooting in US history.
A gunman killed at least 20 people and injured 42 others in a crowded gay nightclub in Florida early yesterday before police shot him dead in what US authorities described as a "terrorism incident".
Just 11.3 per cent of Brazilians support the government of Brazil's acting president Michel Temer, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Barack Obama expressed hope on Wednesday that Bernie Sanders in "the next couple of weeks" will finally concede having lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, despite having vowed to fight on through the party's convention next month.
A Chinese naval ship sailed into waters surrounding disputed East China Sea islands for the first time early Thursday, prompting Tokyo to summon the Chinese ambassador to protest, the Japanese government said.
North Korea announced on Thursday it will convene a rare parliamentary session late this month, when it may confer a new title on leader Kim Jong-Un as he further tightens his grip on power.
The latest Ebola outbreak in Liberia, the last country still affected by the deadliest flare-up in the history of the feared tropical virus, is to be declared over on Thursday.
Hillary Clinton stands poised to claim the Democratic mantle with Tuesday's primaries including California, overwhelming her rival Bernie Sanders and setting up a historic US presidential election showdown with Republican Donald Trump.
At least three people were killed and 40 injured Sunday in a train crash in eastern Belgium, the Belga news agency reported. A passenger train slammed into the back of a goods train on the same track at high speed, Frederic Sacre, spokesman for Belgian railway infrastructure manager Infrabel, said.
France will today host talks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that have received a chilly response from Washington, but diplomats say merely swinging the spotlight back onto the stalemate is a victory.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday placed the Saudi-led military coalition supporting Yemen's government on an annual blacklist over the deaths of hundreds of children in airstrikes.
Two US military aerobatic planes crashed yesterday in separate incidents, one occurring shortly after flying over a speech by President Barack Obama and the other resulting in a death.
President Barack Obama shifted into full election campaign mode Wednesday, accusing Republicans of trying to dupe middle class American voters about the economy and prey on their fears.
Thousands of Brazilian women protested on Wednesday against a "culture of rape" they blamed for the shocking case of a 16-year-old girl allegedly sexually assaulted by more than 30 men.
Pumping up the world economy is an "urgent priority" G7 leaders said on Friday, but left the door open for a go-your-own-way approach in a sign of lingering divisions over how to boost growth.
