The once-powerful bank chief is charged with illegally owning a shotgun, which he denies.

The extreme drought sweeping across Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is already impacting hundreds of thousands of people and killing local wildlife

The stock market is growing more sanguine about US regional banks, but the lenders still face serious pressure.

The United Nations' human rights office has criticized the French government for banning French athletes from wearing the hijab at the Paris Olympics next year.

Children across Haiti's capital are playing drums, bass guitar and piano to drown out the trouble that erupts around them daily

“I can assure you we will do that, and we will undoubtedly need extra police reinforcements,” said Cocciufa

Transferring more than a million barrels of oil from an abandoned tanker anchored off the shore of Yemen comes with "palpable risks" -- but doing nothing could lead to a devastating oil...

Ike Turner took his newly wedded wife Tina Turner to a brothel on their wedding night

President Xi Jinping is set to arrive in San Francisco for a high-stakes meeting with his American counterpart

President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo has asked for an accelerated withdrawal of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, against a backdrop of successive anti-UN protests over its failure to rein in rebel groups more than 20 years after its deployment to the country.

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that first quarter global growth slightly outpaced projections

China's envoy for the war in Ukraine ended a nearly two-week tour through Europe with a stop in Moscow on Friday, closing out a mission that served as a key test of Beijing's bid to broker an end to the spiraling conflict.