One of Haiti’s nearly 200 gangs ambushed a police unit, sending gunfire echoing through the streets in Port-Au-Prince. The firefight left three officers dead, one wounded and another missing.
Decorating the deities is a millennia-old practice that is described in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Some U.S. and Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of deliberately slowing down inspections, which a Russian official denied.
"There is a realistic possibility of local Russian advances" around Bakhmut, which would give the Kremlin a victory after months of setbacks, the U.K. defense ministry said
Cambodia is still strewn with mines from three decades of war, while the problem in Ukraine is new since Russia invaded last year.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine almost 11 months ago, many Ukrainians had fled to Dnipro. The city with a prewar population of nearly 1 million seemed relatively safe compared to to other areas in Ukraine’s war-torn east. But a Russian missile that struck an apartment building and killed at least 45 people on Jan. 14 shattered that belief.
More than 50 defense leaders meeting in Germany failed to hammer out an agreement — stalled by Berlin's hesitation.
A former U.S. Navy SEAL was killed this week in Ukraine, American officials said Friday. They said he was not fighting in an official capacity.
The first Native American woman in space ventured out on a spacewalk Friday to prep the International Space Station for more solar panels.
Prosecutors are likening the arrest of a Mafia boss who was Italy's No. 1 fugitive to an “earthquake” rocking the Sicily-based crime syndicate. Still, experts say the capture at a Palermo clinic of Matteo Messina Denaro after 30 years on the lam won't eradicate the centuries-old crime organization.
Long COVID is a complex chronic illness that can afflict without regard for age, sex, vaccination status or medical history.
For seven decades, China’s Communist Party has ruled the world’s most populous country. As the country’s population crests and begins to shrink, experts say, it will face challenges ranging from supporting the elderly to filling the ranks of its military.
New ice core data shows Greenland is the warmest it's been in more than 1,000 years.
Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers, almost 5% of its workforce, as it joins other tech companies in a scaling back of their pandemic-era expansions. The company said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that the layoffs were a response to “macroeconomic conditions and changing customer priorities.”
Authorities say a helicopter carrying Ukraine’s interior minister and other government officials crashed into a kindergarten in suburban Kyiv, killing him and about a dozen other people, including a child on the ground.
Archaeologists in Norway said Tuesday they have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest, saying the inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the enigmatic history of runic writing.
Many civilians have been detained by Russian forces since the war in Ukraine began and are languishing in jails for months without charges as their relatives seek to find out what's happened to them.
Around some of their precious transformers — the ones that still work, buzzing with electricity — the power plant workers have built protective shields using giant concrete blocks, so they have a better chance of surviving the next Russian missile bombardment.
A French nun who was believed to be the world's oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday. She was born in 1904.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff met for a couple of hours with Ukraine's chief military officer in southeastern Poland.
