China and the U.S. have pledged to accelerate their efforts to address climate change ahead of a major U.N. meeting on the issue

Zambia's football association on Friday expressed "surprise" at claims its women's coach abused a squad member at the current World Cup, after FIFA launched an investigation into what...

Humanity uses and abuses hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic a year because "it's so cheap", despite the huge cost of the pollution it creates, the head of the...

Patrick Kielty is taking over the Late Late - but can the County Down comic make a mark on an Irish institution?

The United States on Friday approved Japan's request to buy 400 Tomahawk missiles, part of Tokyo's bid to bolster defenses...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK General Motors was ordered by a federal appeals court on Thursday to defend

Assemblymember Robert Rivas has been sworn in as the next speaker of California's state Assembly

A police official in Honduras says a riot at a women's prison northwest of the Honduran capital has killed at least 41 women, most of them burned to to death

Brian Lovell is not allowed to judge any other cases until his own case is over, said main judge for the Garfield County

By Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK The leader of Thailand's election-winning Move Forward Party was braced for

'She was preparing for the next life. Tina is not gone. Her spirit and her energy continues,' said Dechen Shak-Dagsay

The U.N. General Assembly has scheduled a vote on a nonbinding resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza leading to a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers