Colombian cartels warned residents in nearly half the country's states that armed fighters would kill anyone who disobeyed coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
A woman who was stripped of her British citizenship after running away from London to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria has now won the right to return to her former home to challenge the decision.
The British government accused “Russian actors” Thursday of seeking to interfere in the U.K.'s last general election, and a powerful committee of lawmakers confirmed it would publish within days a long-awaited report into previous allegations of interference from Moscow.
People frustrated by how the coronavirus and its resulting lockdowns have changed daily living can have their screams broadcast through loudspeakers placed in seven scenic locations across Iceland.
A state-run drug company in China used its own employees as test subjects for COVID-19 vaccine trials even before the government approved the testing for people.
Russian cyber hackers are targeting organizations involved in coronavirus vaccine development, security officials in the U.S, United Kingdom and Canada claimed Thursday.
A sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester installed in an English city without authorization on the site where a monument to a 17th-century parliamentarian and slave trader was ripped down by protesters last month was taken down by the city after just one day, according to a report.
A children's rights campaigner and government officials in Kenya rescued a 12-year-old girl whose father had married her off to two men within a month.
The United States and China have long been at odds over maritime freedom in the South China Sea, but this week marked the first time that Washington made an official policy shift to clamp down on Beijing’s activity – calling it “illegal” and thus opening the legal floodgates to a potential military response.
The 100-year-old British war veteran who raised more than $41 million for those working on the frontlines of the coronavirus fight is set to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on Friday – and he is already anticipating it as one of the “most special” days of his life.
People in England who do not wear face coverings inside shops and supermarkets later this month face upwards of $125 in fines, according to new rules announced this week in an effort to prevent further coronavirus outbreaks.
The second highest rainfall in more than a half-century that's spawned deadly flooding in much of China has fueled new questions about the world's biggest hydroelectric facility, which was billed as a way to help tame floodwaters.
An unauthorized statue of a Black Lives Matter protester has been erected atop the base where a monument honoring British slave trader Edward Colston once stood.
As India’s confirmed coronavirus cases approach 1 million, lockdowns are being reimposed in parts of the country as local governments try to shield the health system from being overwhelmed.
An oil tanker wanted by the U.S. for allegedly circumventing sanctions on Iran has been hijacked – and is now anchored off the coast of the Islamic Republic, a seafarers organization says.