President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan as the Taliban swept into Kabul, but he has defended his decision to abandon the country as his government fell and U.S. forces pulled out.
The family of a 3-year-old girl in Mexico is suing a hospital for negligence after the child woke up at her own funeral after doctors and staff at the hospital declared her dead.
An Australian court found Christopher Dawson, 74, guilty of the 1982 cold case murder of his wife Lynette after a true crime podcast explored the case.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who led the Soviet Union in the late 1980s until its downfall in 1991, has died at the age of 91, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday.
A severe drought and record low water levels along the Lima River in Northwest Spain have caused a previously submerged ancient Roman settlement to reappear.
The head of Ukraine's military administration in the southern region on Mykolaiv called for volunteers to come forward as Ukrainians look to take back the port city of Kherson.
Russia has received its first order of Iranian made drones to be used on the battlefield in Ukraine, according to a Washington Post report that the Kremlin has denied.
Pope Francis and almost 200 cardinals of the Catholic Church have convened an extraordinary consistory at the Vatican for the first time in seven years.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy was in the process of towing away an American sea drone late Monday night, when a U.S. Navy ship swiftly intervered and stopped it.
An employee at Oland Animal and Entertainment Park in Oland, Sweden, was gored by a large antelope and died over the weekend, the park's owner said Monday.
The foundation of elite mountain climber Nirmal Purja has announced it is bringing a team to Pakistan's K2 next year to clean up "rotting food and human waste" that is "frozen into the ice and leaching into the groundwater."
North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-Un was infected with the coronavirus and is suffering a high fever, according to state media outlet Rodong Shinmun.
Women and girls in Afghanistan face oppressive policies one year after Kabul fell to the Taliban, striping them of the ability to get a higher education and work.
Violence continued to escalate Tuesday in Iraq's Green Zone. Supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr clashed with Iraqi security forces, using grenades and machine guns.
Former defense official James Anderson argued that the U.S. must drop its policy of ambiguity regarding Taiwan to maximize the effectiveness of its asymmetric strategy.
Putin has sidelined Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu over stalled progress in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the U.K. wrote in an intelligence update on Monday.