As fire-wrecked Los Angeles braces for a visit by President Donald Trump, many are worrying the mercurial Republican will ...

Afghan taekwondo star Marzieh Hamidi told AFP the death threats she has received, forcing her to live under French police ...

The Bank of Japan hiked interest rates on Friday to their highest level in 17 years and signalled more were in the pipeline ...

Air pollution in the Thai capital forced the closure of more than 350 schools on Friday, city authorities said, as Bangkok ...

US President Donald Trump will reach out to Kim Jong Un again, he said in an interview aired Thursday, calling the North ...

All signs of life have disappeared from the bombed-out houses and empty streets of the Lebanese border town of Naqura, but despite a fragile Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire that has held since ...

Indonesia and France will sign an agreement Friday for the transfer of a Frenchman who has languished on death row since 2007 for alleged drug offences, an Indonesian minister told ...

In a field in southwest England where his dairy cows graze, Adam Stanbury said he feared the government's new farm tax, coupled with existing economic headwinds, will ruin his family ...

Scheicho Scheifa is haunted by the fear of going blind. A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that one has already turned opaque.

On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she was a teenager much like them when she was first ...

Asian markets rose Friday after a record day on Wall Street in response to Donald Trump's tax-cut pledge, while the yen weakened slightly ahead of an expected interest rate hike ...

Helicopter pilot Tim Thomas has fought dozens of wildfires all over the world, but nothing prepared him for the scale and the challenge of the devastating blazes that ripped through ...