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Gunmen launched two nearly simultaneous attacks against federal police installations in Acapulco's tourist district, sowing panic as people ducked inside restaurants and stores in Mexico's crime-plagued resort, authorities said on Monday.
Venezuela's Supreme Court on Monday rejected the opposition's latest bid to cut short the term of President Nicolas Maduro, whose opponents blame him for a severe economic crisis.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos reshuffled his cabinet on Monday in what he said was preparation for a looming peace deal to end a half-century conflict with armed rebels.
Australian police have charged a 16-year-old boy with planning a terrorism act allegedly linked to Monday's Anzac Day commemorations which honour soldiers who fought and died for the country.
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders turned out yesterday for the 100th ANZAC Day dawn services honouring their war dead on the anniversary of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign in World War I.
Yemeni troops backed by Arab coalition air strikes killed more than 800 members of al-Qaeda in an attack on a southeastern provincial capital held by the group for the past year, the coalition said yesterday.
Barack Obama will set out his vision of relations with Europe with a speech in the northern German city of Hanover yesterday, trying to frame a relationship that has been less than easy throughout his presidency.
Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic claimed victory in Sunday's general election after projections showed him winning by a landslide.
The EU has proposed offering visa-free travel in Europe to Ukrainians, delivering on a key pledge to the pro-Western government in Kiev
Recession-wracked Venezuela is to ration electricity in 10 of its most populous and industrialised states, including metropolitan Caracas, the government said on Wednesday.
The UN began evacuating hundreds of people from besieged Syrian towns in a rare sign of humanitarian progress, as the US Air Force for the first time deployed a B-52 bomber against the Islamic State group.
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Ecuador on Wednesday, sowing new panic four days after a powerful quake killed more than 500 people and injured over 5,000.
New York was to go to the polls on April 19 in a pivotal presidential primary tipped to hand Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump victories in the race to clinch the Democratic and Republican tickets to the White House.
Rescuers and desperate families clawed through the rubble Monday to pull out survivors of an earthquake that killed 350 people and destroyed towns in a tourist area of Ecuador.
British Prime Minister David Cameron was on Monday to announce plans to make companies liable for staff facilitating tax evasion, in his first parliamentary appearance since the Panama Papers triggered a row over his own tax affairs.
Hundreds of emergency workers in India battled yesterday night to rescue dozens of people still trapped after a flyover collapsed onto a busy street, killing at least 22 people and injuring nearly 100
Over one in eight adults are now obese -- a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, a major survey reported today
EU member states agreed yesterday to impose sanctions on three Libyan figures for obstructing the peace process and the formation of a government of national unity in the war-torn country
New "extremely troubling" allegations have emerged of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers and French troops in the Central African Republic, the United Nations said yesterday.
North Korea's nuclear issue will feature prominently during the first day of a major security summit hosted by President Barack Obama in Washington today
