The Nigerian government paid Boko Haram militants a "huge" ransom of millions of dollars to free up to 230 children and staff ...

Mexico was on high alert Monday with schools closed and travelers stranded, as members of a powerful drug cartel went on a ...

Global equities traded mixed and the dollar fell slightly Monday as uncertainty over Donald Trump's tariffs gripped markets after the US Supreme Court struck down a large part of the ...

Iran said Monday that a US attack of any scale would spur the Islamic republic to respond "ferociously", after President ...

The United Nations leader warned Monday that "the rule of force" was spreading, as the powerful trample on international law ...

A new Dutch government took power on Monday, with 38-year-old centrist Rob Jetten sworn in as the country's youngest-ever ...

India unveiled a bust of an independence-era nationalist icon at the presidential palace on Monday, replacing a monument to British architect Edwin Lutyens in a symbolic break from its colonial ...

Nemesio Oseguera, the head of Mexico's Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) who was killed by the army on Sunday, challenged the state like few others in his bid to consolidate ...

In war-torn Ukraine, her family considers her a traitor. In tightly controlled Russia, her life is defined by solitude.

New York ordered drivers off the road and shut down schools on Monday, while residents braced for a massive snowstorm hitting ...

The Los Angeles Lakers honored legendary coach Pat Riley, mastermind of the team's 1980s "Showtime" era, with a statue ...

Shah Alam travelled from his home in Bangladesh to Pakistan for a brief visit nearly three decades ago, but flaring hostility between the two countries and financial woes left him ...