A top leader of the Boy Scouts of America apologized on Thursday for the political nature of a controversial speech that President Donald Trump delivered to a scouts gathering earlier this week. "I...
Katie Ledecky led the USA to the women's 4x200m freestyle title at the world championships on Thursday with a powerful anchor leg to win her fourth gold medal in Budapest. Ledecky touched the wall at...
Katy Perry will host this year's MTV Video Music Awards, the network announced Thursday, as it turned to one of pop music's most visible stars for its big gala. Perry was also the first performer...
Defeated Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton promises to let her guard down and explain what happened in her shock electoral defeat to Donald Trump, including the mistakes she made, in a...
Terror in Kashmir has a new name after a prominent young militant was named as the head of a new Al-Qaeda-linked group in the disputed Himalayan territory. The move has been described by Indian...
Qatar's foreign minister on Thursday accused Gulf neighbors and Egypt of "stubbornness" in their ongoing diplomatic dispute and said the United Nations should step in to help resolve the crisis....
Turkish Cypriot authorities on Thursday released the captain and crew of a boat hired by far-right activists to prevent would-be migrants from reaching Europe, local media reported. Kibris Postasi...
French president Emmanuel Macron has announced his country will set up processing 'hotspots' in Libya for asylum seekers trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean. He said France will 'go to...
A deadly accident in which a ride at the Ohio State Fair broke apart mid-air was a "nightmare," officials said Thursday, as they sought help from experts around the country to help determine the...
A 32-year-old prison inmate and Muslim convert from Massachusetts has been sentenced to three years behind bars for threatening to kill then Barack Obama when US president, prosecutors announced....
Procter & Gamble, seeking to fend off a challenge from activist investor Nelson Peltz, Thursday pointed to better-than-expected earnings as evidence its makeover of the consumer products giant is on...
President Donald Trump is pretty handy with a golf club, but his prowess appears to have just received a significant upgrade courtesy of the official White House transcript. When top aide Anthony...
Nearly three months after Russia, Iran and Turkey reached a deal on de-escalating the war in Syria, hundreds of thousands of civilians have yet to receive desperately needed aid, a senior UN official...
The head of the Arab League warned Thursday that Israeli attempts to control highly sensitive religious sites in Jerusalem by force risk igniting a "religious war". Israel's actions are "playing with...
The US military's top officer directed military heads on Thursday not to implement any changes to current policy on transgender personnel, a day after President Donald Trump tweeted they would be...
Oil field services giant Halliburton will pay nearly $30 million to resolve allegations of bribery in Angola, US regulators announced Thursday. Former Halliburton vice president Jeannot Lorenz also...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called for the execution of a Palestinian who stabbed to death three Israelis last week as tensions rose over new security measures at a Jerusalem holy...
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions headed to El Salvador on Thursday for meetings on law enforcement cooperation, traveling far from Washington after days of bearing humiliating online scorn from...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Thursday became the world's richest person, as a jump in the share price of the US tech giant enabled him to overtake Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Forbes magazine...
England's Alastair Cook in action during the first day of the third Test against South Africa at The Oval in London, on July 27, 2017 England were 149 for four after winning the toss at tea on the...
