A Russian fighter jet chased off a NATO aircraft after it buzzed a plane carrying defence minister Sergei Shoigu over the Baltic Sea, Russian news agencies have said. The F-16 had tried to approach...
The US has been told it will need to 'send in the Marines' if it's going to get Venezuela to comply with a regional plan. The crisis-hit country's foreign minister goaded the United States by saying...
US President Donald Trump's planned state visit to Britain later this year got no mention in Queen Elizabeth II's speech to parliament on Wednesday, raising doubts about whether it will go ahead. The...
The head of Israel's air force said Wednesday that in any future conflict with Lebanon the Jewish state will have "unimaginable" military power at its disposal. Major General Amir Eshel told a...
Together with her husband and seven children, a hungry and thirsty Shadiya Ibrahim fled war and famine in South Sudan and says she has found safety in Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur. "This was the...
Apple has expanded its legal battle against Qualcomm, accusing the US chip maker of charging for invalid patents in the latest twist in the clash between the two tech giants. In legal filings in a...
Saudi King Salman, who ascended the throne in January 2015 and the last of the "Sudairi Seven" to rule, has presided over wideranging efforts to transform his oil-dependent, conservative Islamic...
A US missionary who spent two years in a North Korean jail said Wednesday he had never imagined that a valuable American prisoner like student Otto Warmbier could die after being taken into...
Uber said Wednesday that its embattled chief executive Travis Kalanick had agreed to step down from his job, as the company tries to clean up a corporate culture that has sparked charges of...
Takata shares plunged again Wednesday, losing almost half of their value in just three days of trading on reports the troubled Japanese airbag maker will file for bankruptcy protection and sell its...
Senior US officials will meet their Chinese counterparts Wednesday to seek a tougher line on North Korea's nuclear ambitions -- despite President Donald Trump implying this is already a lost cause....
Boarded-up homes became a ubiquitous symbol of the US housing crash, with once-prosperous neighborhoods left to decay as mortgage defaults soared and no new buyers emerged. Some 10 years later, the...
China will stage a regular-season NFL game "down the road" as American football targets a more global fanbase, the sport's top figure in the country told AFP on Wednesday. New England Patriots star...
Inside the "Heroes' Ward" at a hospital in the Philippine capital, wounded soldiers read the Bible and recount horror stories of an unprecedented urban war against fighters linked to the Islamic...
Suspected North Korean drone surveillance is a "grave provocation" which violates the Korean War truce, Seoul said Wednesday, demanding a United Nations probe into a drone that crashed near the...
In the years leading up to the return of Hong Kong to China by Britain in 1997, thousands of residents fearful of the future under Beijing jumped ship to start a new life abroad. As the...
Prodigy, one half of hip-hop duo Mobb Deep whose dark hardcore style helped define the East Coast sound amid the 1990s rivalry with the West Coast, died Tuesday. He was 42. The rapper, who had...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Trump administration on Tuesday that if the United States disengages from the international community it will be replaced - saying that...
Researchers have unveiled new data that they said would help better assess breast or ovarian cancer risks in women, identifying the advantages of early detection and lifelong monitoring. The study,...
New York, the fourth most populous state in America, updated antiquated legislation on Tuesday to outlaw children as young as 14 from getting married. Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, signed...
