Massive cuts to humanitarian budgets risk leaving more than 11 million refugees without desperately needed aid, the United Nations warned Friday. That corresponds to a full third of the number reached ...

Spanish firefighters on Friday were bringing under control a forest fire near Madrid that had cloaked the capital in a huge cloud of acrid smoke. The blaze that broke out on Thursday around 50 ...

Netflix reported stronger than expected second-quarter results Thursday, with profit jumping 45 percent year-over-year as the streaming giant benefited from subscription price increases and a growing ...

Austrian daredevil "fearless Felix" Baumgartner, who died on Thursday aged 56, stunned fans around the world by breaking the sound barrier in a hair-raising dive from the fringe of space more than a ...

Juul Labs said Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration had officially authorized the e-cigarette maker to market its vaping system and refill capsules in the United States. Juul won the new ...

The EU executive is preparing a list of proposed restrictions on US services companies -- including tech giants -- should Brussels fail to strike a trade deal with Washington, European diplomats said ...

A drone loaded with explosives struck an oil field in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region on Thursday, Kurdish forces said -- the second attack in two days on the Norwegian-operated site. "At 10:55 am ...

Italian junior cyclist Samuele Privitera has died aged 19 following a fall at this week's Tour of the Aoste Valley-Mont Blanc, the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) announced on Thursday. Privitera, ...

Myanmar's junta claimed on Thursday to have ousted armed rebels who captured a town near the military's main officer training academy after a year-long battle. A 2021 coup sparked a civil war in ...

Georgia has arrested two men for allegedly attempting to illegally sell weapons-grade uranium, officials in the Caucasus nation said on Thursday. Counter-intelligence and special operations units ...

Explosive-laden drones hit three oil fields in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Wednesday, Kurdish authorities said, a day after a similar attack halted operations at a facility run by a US ...

Major stock markets stumbled on Wednesday after reports that US President Donald Trump was close to firing the head of the Federal Reserve in a dispute over interest rates. The yield demanded by ...