Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course of two months, the U.N. children's agency said Friday, warning that existing ...

Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon ...

A crowd of protesters staged a demonstration against gender-based violence in the South African capital of Pretoria on Friday as part of a national outcry after an alleged rape of a 7-year-old girl.

Exhausted, some people expressed frustration over the slow process, while others—like Rosa Eridania Reyes, who was waiting for the body of the father of her two children and a security guard at the ...

Large groups of Palestinians gathered for hours in a playground in central Gaza, eagerly awaiting food distributed by a charity kitchen on Friday.

In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals – monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe – stand to ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday called for stronger cooperation between his country and the European Union to resist ''bullying'' ...

A fossilized human jawbone discovered in Taiwan is now thought to belong to a Denisovan, an ancient human relative.

"This will give us an opportunity to negotiate tariff reductions so that the playing field is level for everyone," said ...

Gianni Infantino, the President of FIFA, was in Philadelphia on Thursday, continuing his journey through the 11 cities that will host the FIFA Club World Cup this summer.

The makeshift camps, located on privately owned land, have long been the site of violent altercations between migrants and Tunisians from nearby El Amra and Jebeniana, two towns located north of Sfax, ...

The Amhara, Ethiopia’s second-largest ethnic group, once dominated national politics. Many among the rebels want to see them in power again. But they also claim the Amhara are under attack, citing ...