The Saudi government said it would provide the workers with free food, health care and flights to get home after their employers abandoned them and stopped paying their wages.
Within minutes of skidding across the runway, all 282 passengers on board an Emirates flight, which exploded in flames in Dubai on Wednesday, were safely evacuated.
If you think skateboarding is a pursuit for hooded teenagers congregating under a bridge and not interested in reaching the pinnacle of world sport, it's time to think again.
New Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte campaigned hard on a no-nonsense approach to crime -- and now the full impact of what exactly this means for those on the streets is emerging.
In the midst of an "unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport," this isn't an easy time for the men in white coats in their ongoing fight to beat the doping cheats.
Bollywood filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison after being convicted of raping a 35-year-old American researcher.
The women's football competition in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games may have already started, but the one event that's on everyone's mind this week is the opening ceremony at the iconic Maracana Stadium, expected to be seen by 3 billion people around the world on Friday.
Earl, which is moving in the Caribbean toward Belize and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, has been upgraded from a tropical storm to hurricane, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Farewell, Jade Rabbit, and thanks for the memories. Fans of China's first unmanned lunar rover, which had an active social media presence, said their goodbyes
Nearly two dozen people are missing after one of two major bridges connecting the Indian cities of Mumbai and Goa collapsed over the swollen Savitri River.