Amnesty International has accused the Australian government of a "mass cover-up" after more than 2,000 case reports were leaked detailing abuse on the Pacific island of Nauru.
Three elderly people have been killed in fierce wildfires that are ravaging the Portuguese island of Madeira, destroying dozens of homes, a local official said Wednesday.
Tonya Harding vs. Nancy Kerrigan; the Russian and US ice hockey teams; Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson; Mary Decker vs. Zola Budd -- the Olympics have always played host to some intense rivalries, sometimes personal, sometimes geopolitical.
Late Sunday at an art-deco restaurant in Copacabana, three recent Harvard Business School graduates from Brazil chatted casually as they kept tabs on the soccer match on display behind the bar.
Yuri van Gelder lived up to his reputation as the bad boy of gymnastics after he was thrown out of the Rio Olympics by the Dutch team for an unauthorized night out drinking.
She might not have won an Olympic medal. But rugby player Isadora Cerullo had already won girlfriend Marjorie Enya's heart when she accepted her marriage proposal in Rio de Janeiro Monday.
Ethiopia is facing a crisis of unprecedented magnitude, yet its government and Western enablers refuse to acknowledge and recognize the depth of the crisis.
With a lick of some honey that was spooned onto her palm, human rights activist Irom Sharmila on Tuesday ended her 16-year hunger strike in India -- the longest such fast in the world.
An Indian photographer took his wife's picture with him on their Italian honeymoon, instead of his wife, after she lost her passport and couldn't make the trip.
