The US Navy intervened to stop Iranian Navy ships attempting to seize two oil tankers in separate incidents in the Gulf of Oman early on Wednesday morning, according to a US defense official.

China declined a US request for Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to meet his counterpart Li Shangfu in

John D Rockefeller is thought to have earned the first billionaire title decades before the arrival of today's super-rich

The US pop star says she is putting safety first after temperatures in the Brazilian city reached 39.1C.

COLOMBO Sri Lanka's in-principle pact with creditor nations to restructure its debt prepares the way for the International

Five major U.S. cities and the state of California will receive federal help to get unsheltered residents into permanent housing

The $9 trillion of Chinese local government bonds that helped drag the rest of the world out of

Slovakia’s top police officer says the former and current heads of the country’s spy agency and five other police and intelligence officers have been accused of abuse of power and criminal conspiracy in a scandal ahead of an upcoming early election

Sorely missed blue skies are returning and cities across the northeastern US are experiencing better air quality indexes after the monstrous cloud of smoke spewed by the wildfires in Canada dissipates.

One of those taken hostage is a grandmother who learned Arabic in hopes of building bridges with her neighbors

Its top diplomat has been in Washington for talks but there are limits to what it can achieve.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged to fast-track hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of construction projects throughout the state