David Crosby, the trailblazing singer-songwriter whose time with The Byrds and later Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young expanded rock's range, has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 81..Citing a family member, his publicist confirmed the death to AFP but did not provide a cause. The sin

A former serviceman opened fire in a Georgian town, killing five people before turning the weapon on himself, the Caucasus country's interior ministry said today.

A federal US judge sanctioned former president Donald Trump and his lawyers nearly $1 million Thursday for a "frivolous" lawsuit claiming Hillary Clinton had tried to rig the 2016 election.

The US Department of State, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services, has launched the Welcome Corps, a new private sponsorship program that will enable Americans to sponsor refugees arriving through the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), directly support their resettlement, and make a difference by welcoming these new neighbours into their communities.

Capping global warming at liveable levels will be impossible without massively scaling up the extraction of planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the first global assessment of CO2 removal warned yesterday.

Muddy holes dot the ground in a Dutch village where a map allegedly showing the location of Nazi loot buried in World War II has triggered an invasion of treasure hunters.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government has fired 13 soldiers from his security detail following violent anti-government riots for which he pointed the finger again Wednesday at his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.

The Kremlin yesterday warned of escalation in Ukraine if the West gives the pro-Western country more weapons capable of striking Russia, as Kyiv intensified pressure on Western allies to provide heavier weapons to step up fight against Moscow.

Iran yesterday condemned a European Parliament call to blacklist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Two Palestinians were killed by gunfire early yesterday during an Israeli army raid in the flashpoint West

A Spanish great-grandmother who was born in the United States has likely become the world’s oldest living person at 115, a Guinness World Records consultant said Wednesday.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a global figurehead of progressive politics, shocked the country yesterday by announcing she would resign from office.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg slammed business and political leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday, saying it was “absurd” to listen to them while they fuelled “the destruction of the planet”.

A man from the Caribbean island of Dominica says he survived 24 days lost at sea in a sailboat by eating ketchup before being rescued in Colombian waters, the country's naval authority said.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today that she would be stepping down from her role on February 7 after five and a half years, New Zealand media reported.."For me it's time," she told members of her Labour Party, making clear that there was no secret scandal behind he

Philippine Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa was acquitted yesterday of tax evasion, among a slew of charges she has long maintained are politically motivated, calling the verdict a victory for “truth”.

Norwegian archaeologists believe they have found the world’s oldest runestone inscribed almost 2,000 years ago, making it several hundred centuries older than previous discoveries.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres skewered oil firms yesterday for having “peddled the big lie” about their role in global warming, telling the World Economic Forum that they should be held accountable.

A son of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been freed after serving more than seven years of a 10-year jail sentence for fraud, Iranian media reported yesterday.

Ukraine’s interior minister and 13 others were killed in a helicopter crash near a kindergarten outside Kyiv yesterday, in a blow to the war-battered nation’s government.