A heavily-armed Canadian military reservist who rammed his truck into a gate at the grounds where Justin Trudeau lives has been charged with threatening to cause death or bodily harm to the prime minister, prosecutors say.
An Australian man fought off one of the world’s deadliest snakes with only a knife and a seatbelt after the serpent coiled around his leg while driving on a highway, authorities said.
The Hong Kong government waited until Monday night to release the new rules for the implementation of the legislation that gives sweeping powers to the city's police force.
Search and rescue crews in Japan fanned out across towns in the country's southern region on Tuesday as the death toll from devastating flooding ticked upwards as more heavy rain is expected.
Iraqi mourners and relatives on Tuesday carried the body of a respected analyst shot and killed the previous night in Baghdad after receiving threats from Iran-backed militias. Many Iraqis expressed their shock over the slaying.
A United Nations (UN) report on Monday warned of a rising trend of diseases that are spread from wildlife to humans and likely driven by the degradation of our natural environment.
A Chinese professor who has gained notoriety for being one of the few outspoken critics of President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party was taken from his home Monday on what his friends and family maintain are trumped-up charges.
Britain on Monday announced economic sanctions against individuals and organizations from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and North Korea under new U.K. powers to punish human rights offenders.
The border dividing Australia’s two most populous states has been shut down for the first time in a century in hopes of containing a growing coronavirus outbreak.
The credibility of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its dealings with the Chinese government in the early days of the pandemic have once again come under scrutiny.
Nearly four dozen people were fatally struck by lightning on Saturday in northern India, joining the hundreds who have died from strikes in the past two months.
Fears of coronavirus outbreaks in the U.S. led the small Mexican town of Sonoyta across from Lukeville, Ariz., to briefly block the main road leading south from the U.S. border over the weekend.
Torrential rain brought another deluge to southern Japan on Monday as the death toll from days of flooding and mudslides climbed to at least 49 people as rescuers searched for missing people.
A small plane suspected of carrying hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs from South America landed on a highway in southern Mexico and burst into flames, Mexican military officials said Sunday.
A man seen carrying a sign with the message “Liberate Hong Kong” has become the first person charged under its controversial new security law – and he has been denied bail, reports say.