Rescue teams pulled more bodies from the rubble of Beirut's port as more than 300,000 Lebanese are displaced after a massive explosion Tuesday sent a wave of destruction through Lebanon's capital, killing nearly 150 people and wounding thousands.
Pope Francis appointed six women to oversee the Vatican's finances on Thursday, making them the most senior female officials who have ever served there.
As India hit another grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, crossing 2 million cases and more than 41,000 deaths, community health volunteers went on strike complaining they were ill-equipped to respond to the wave of infection in rural areas.
China has sentenced a fourth Canadian citizen to death on drug charges in less than two years following a sharp downturn in ties over the arrest of an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei.
A small-scale miner from Tanzania made another record discovery of one of the world's rarest gemstone this month, hauling in a precious 14 pound stone valued at $2 million, according to a report.
China confirmed Thursday that they will shut down any proposal put forward in the United Nations Security Council that would extend the arms embargo on Iran.
For the many women who allege to have been abused by the famed French modeling agent and Jeffrey Epstein associate, Jean Luc Brunel, justice has been non-existent.
Members of Poland's parliament on Thursday used the swearing-in ceremony of President Andrzej Duda's to make a political statement, forming a rainbow with their clothing to highlight accusations of homophobia against his campaign.
Scientists in Paraguay have been investigating how one side of the divided Cerro Lagoon turned purple and began emitting a foul odor months ago, while the other side has remained blue.
The U.S. military is sending three cargo planes to Lebanon filled with food, water and medical supplies, the U.S. Central Command announced in a statement Thursday two days after a massive explosion in the capital city of Beirut left at least 157 dead and some 5,000 injured.
A former Saudi minister of state and intelligence official has filed an explosive lawsuit against Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, alleging that he “orchestrated an ongoing multi-year conspiracy by a Saudi government-sanctioned ‘death squad’ to torture and assassinate” the ex-intel officer on both U.S. and Canadian soil.
A pair of would-be robbers armed with seven homemade pipe bombs failed to blow open an ATM at a New Zealand shopping mall early Thursday, investigators said.
Investigators probing the devastating blast in Beirut that killed at least 135 people and injured 5,000 more are pointing to a Russian ship docked in the city's port for nearly 7 years without appropriate security precautions that officials warned was “a floating bomb.”
As outraged protesters gathered in central Beirut on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron assured that foreign aid dollars would not fall into corrupt hands on the second day since a massive explosion devastated the Lebanese capital, leaving so far at least 157 dead and 5,000 injured.
A North Korean city placed in an “ultra-emergency state” over a suspected coronavirus case has been sent more than 550,000 aid items, the country’s state media is reporting Thursday, despite the Hermit Kingdom’s continued insistence that the disease doesn’t exist within its borders.
Survivors of the world’s first atomic bombing gathered in diminished numbers near an iconic, blasted dome Thursday to mark the attack’s 75th anniversary, many of them urging the world, and their own government, to do more to ban nuclear weapons.
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