Prince Harry will attend his father's coronation, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday, ending months of speculation about whether the prince would be welcome after leveling charges of racism and media manipulation at the royal family.
Saddam Hussein's statues and images are long gone in Baghdad 20 years later, but much of the hope that came in wiping away Saddam’s oppressive visual presence has also evaporated.
A volcano erupted early Tuesday on Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, spewing clouds of dust 65,600 feet into the sky and covering broad areas with ash.
India will surpass China's population this month. Or maybe in July. Or, perhaps it's happened already? Demographers are unsure exactly when India will take the title as the most populous nation in the world because they're relying on estimates to make their best guess.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the country’s tiger population has steadily grown to over 3,000. But Indigenous groups allege they are being driven out of their ancestral lands to save the big cats.
King Charles III will be taking a shortcut and a smoother ride to Westminster Abbey, trimming the procession route his mother took in 1953 as he aims for a more modest coronation that will include some modern touches.
The Dalai Lama was taking questions from the audience in February in Dharamsala when the boy asked if he could hug him. After a hug, the Dalai Lama asks the boy to kiss him on the lips and "suck his tongue," as the boy sticks out his own tongue and leans in, prompting laughter from the audience.
A network of abortion-rights activists in Mexico is finding ways to offer assistance — including shipments of abortion pills — to women in the United States affected by recently imposed abortion bans in several states.
Tens of thousands of faithful joined Pope Francis on Sunday to celebrate Christianity's most joyful day at Mass in a flower-adorned St. Peter's Square. Francis delivered a traditional speech about the world's troubled places.
Francis delivered a traditional speech about the world's troubled places. He said countries that give help and welcome to those fleeing war and poverty are concrete signs of hope.
The capacity to burn coal for power went up in 2022 despite global promises to phase down the fuel that’s the biggest source of planet-warming gases in the atmosphere, a new report found.
At the age of 27, with no previous trial experience, Ferencz became chief prosecutor in 1947 for a case in which 22 former commanders were charged with murdering more than 1 million Jews, Romani and others.
Unseasonably chilly weather in Rome convinced the recently ailing pontiff to skip Good Friday's nighttime procession at the Colosseum.
Rising methane levels in the atmosphere last year again played a big part in an overall increase in the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In a Holy Thursday ritual symbolizing humility, Pope Francis washed and dried the feet of a dozen residents of a Rome juvenile prison, assuring them of their dignity and telling them "any of us" can fall into sin.
In the years since Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman catapulted to power, it’s hard to find a controversy in the Middle East that doesn’t somehow involve the 37-year-old heir to the throne. Now he’s pivoting to his next audacious plan: Giving peace a chance.
This month marks 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement largely ended bloodshed that left 3,600 people dead.
The White House on Thursday publicly released a 12-page summary of the results of the so-called "hotwash" of U.S. policies around the ending of the nation's longest war, taking little responsibility for its own actions during some of the darkest moments of Biden's presidency.
Gleb Karakulov, an officer in Putin’s secretive personal security service who was responsible for secure communications, said moral opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and his fear of dying there drove him to speak out, despite the risks.
Swedish prosecutors cautioned that the identity of the perpetrator was still unclear and hinted it is likely to remain so.
