A child in California has tested positive for bird flu, despite having no known contact with infected animals, state ...

The floods which killed 227 people in Spain last month could shave 0.2 percentage points off its economic growth in the final ...

Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye appeared in a military court in Kampala on Wednesday after his reported ...

European powers and the United States have submitted a resolution censuring Iran for its poor cooperation with the UN nuclear ...

US envoy Amos Hochstein was in Lebanon Wednesday, seeking to hammer out a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah, ...

Major European and Asian stock markets mostly gained and the dollar firmed against main rivals Wednesday following a positive ...

The WHO announced late Tuesday that it had raised nearly $4 billion through a new financing mechanism, aimed at securing ...

A painting by Rene Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist on Tuesday, selling for more than $121 ...

It was an unlucky day in the Burmese calendar, farmer Yar Swe Kyin warned her husband in July, begging him not to go out to ...

Jayson Tatum scored 33 points as the Boston Celtics ended the Cleveland Cavaliers' 15-game unbeaten start to the season with ...

The UN Security Council is expected to vote Wednesday on another draft resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza in its ...

Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai insisted his newspaper had championed democracy and "freedom" as he took the witness ...