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Firefighters and water-dropping aircraft were fighting a blaze for a second day in southern Greece Thursday that forced evacuations and a night-long battle to save seaside homes.

Two state-sponsored cyberspies in China, charged with trying to steal U.S. coronavirus vaccine research and millions of dollars' worth of sensitive information from businesses and government agencies, also targeted a Christian pastor.

Philippine health officials on Wednesday swiftly corrected President Rodrigo Duterte after he wrongly advised residents to disinfect face masks with gasoline.

At a time when billions of people on the planet are struggling with the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing economic collapse — on top of long-running disasters like famine, drought or social and civil unrest —some of the world’s largest government donors of humanitarian aid are buckling under the strain.

The U.S. and U.K. have agreed to end a legal “anomaly” that allowed the wife of an American intelligence official to claim diplomatic immunity after fatally striking 19-year-old Harry Dunn on his motorbike in a wrong-side-of-the-road crash outside a military base in central England last August.

After a night of intense protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, dozens of Israeli demonstrators chained themselves together and briefly blocked the entrance to parliament on Wednesday morning.

Despite long being under a cloud of controversy for its human rights record – from the treatment of ethnic minorities to the muzzling of critics, all of which was amplified this year with the coverup of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan that spawned a global pandemic – China continues to climb the ranks as a human rights leader in the United Nations.

Britain's ministers are considering making foreign agents register with the government in the United Kingdom after an intelligence report detailed allegations that there was Russian interference in the European Union referendum.

Police searching for a two-year-old boy who went missing from a marketplace in southern Mexico led authorities to a house where 23 abducted children were being kept and forced to sell trinkets in the street. 

Britain’s opposition Labour Party has agreed to pay substantial damages to seven whistleblowers who sued for defamation after they voiced concerns of anti-Semitism within the party.

An area of disturbed weather out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is expected to become the next named tropical storm as early as Wednesday, according to forecasters.

A startling video has emerged of two French children falling out of an apartment building window and into the arms of locals to escape a raging fire engulfing their home.

China Wednesday condemned what it said was an unprovoked order by the United States to close the Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas.

Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was just awarded $1.15 million in prize money for the 2020 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity – and she’s already pledged to give all of it away to environmental groups.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said Tuesday he thinks the military should take over the handling of stemming the spread of COVID-19, shifting responsibilities from the health ministry.

Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday detained a man who had taken more than a dozen hostages on a bus, ending a 12-hour standoff with police, officials said.

The Vatican said on Monday that in very exceptional circumstances and with special permission, lay Catholics can be allowed to perform marriage rites.

Police in Italy intercepted a package carrying approximately 500 coffee beans stuffed with cocaine and addressed to a fictional mob boss from a movie.

Intense rains and flooding across northeastern India from this year's monsoon season have left dozens dead across the region, including nine rare rhinos that have drowned.

The 11-count indictment against Li Xiaoyu, 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 31, alleges the Chinese nationals hacked into the computer systems of hundreds of companies, government organizations as well as individual dissidents and clergy.