German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Wednesday that Afghanistan's Taliban rulers had "decided to destroy" the country's future by banning women from university education nationwide.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet US leader Joe Biden and address Congress in Washington on Wednesday, a visit the White House said will send Russia a strong message of Western unity.

Says a student in Kabul, asking not to be identified, as hundreds of young women are stopped by armed guards from entering Afghan university campuses

Eight teenage girls have been charged with murder in the stabbing death of an elderly man in Toronto, Canadian officials said Tuesday.

A US mother has been arrested after Michigan authorities say she anonymously cyberbullied her teenage daughter and her boyfriend for more than a year, reports say.

Myanmar police have arrested 12 suspected members of a human trafficking gang linked to the deaths of 13 Rohingyas, the military said.

A powerful magnitude 6.4 earthquake jolted the extreme northern coast of California before dawn on Tuesday, damaging homes, roads and water systems and leaving tens of thousands of people without electricity.

A blast ripped through a gas pipeline in central Russia, killing three people and disrupting some of the limited amount of Russian gas that is still reaching Europe,

A German court convicted a 97-year-old woman of having contributed to the murder of over 11,000 people during her time working as a typist at a Nazi concentration camp in World War Two,

The US House of Representatives panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol asked federal prosecutors on Monday to charge Donald Trump with four crimes, including obstruction and insurrection, for his role in sparking the deadly riot.

Russia said it is invariably committed to its principle of not interfering in the domestic affairs of other countries, including Bangladesh.

More than a hundred new designs discovered in and around Peru’s ancient Nazca plain and surrounding areas could bring new information to light about the mysterious pre-Columbian artworks that have intrigued scientists and visitors for decades.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said the situation in Russian-held parts of Ukraine was “extremely difficult” while his Ukrainian counterpart drove home the message by visiting a frontline town that Russia has long tried and failed to capture.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will convene a “no-nonsense” climate ambition summit in September next year and warned that there will be “no room for back-sliders, greenwashers, blame-shifters” or a repackaging of old pledges.

The head of Russian space agency Roscosmos yesterday praised Russia-US cooperation at the International Space Station following a major coolant leak from a Soyuz crew capsule.

Suspected militants on motorbikes stormed a village north of Baghdad late Monday and killed eight Iraqi civilians, officials said.

A German court is expected to deliver its verdict Tuesday in the case of a 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary accused of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people.

The congressional inquiry into last year's riot at the United States Capitol on Monday voted to refer criminal charges against former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department..The House Select Committee blamed Trump for the violent attack on the Capitol by his supporters..Sla

Disgraced US movie titan Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of sexually assaulting a woman a decade ago, in what prosecutors said was part of his "reign of terror" over aspiring young actresses in Hollywood.

The original animatronic model used to bring big-eyed alien E.T. to life in Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi film sold this weekend for a whopping $2.6 million, according to auction organizers.