China's online shoppers are engaging in a rare bright spot for its cooling economy — a quirky holiday dubbed "Singles Day" that has grown into the world's busiest day for e-commerce.
China's President Xi Jinping is making a strong call for unity among all Chinese people amid political turmoil in Hong Kong and rising independence sentiment in self-governing Taiwan.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry became the highest-ranking American official to land in Antarctica for a two-day visit during which he'll hear from scientists about the impact of climate change on the frozen continent.
A newspaper reports that the United States and Australia are close to announcing a deal in which the United States will resettle hundreds of asylum seekers banished by Australia to Pacific island camps.
A massive storm had just swept through a sprawling refugee camp in the small Iraqi-Kurdistan border town of Zakho, and while the other children his age squealed as they played in the puddles outside, 8-year-old Zed sat with his back against his family's tent wall, arms folded, eyes angry.
In a new video, al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has threatened to escalate attacks against forces recruited by the United Arab Emirates, which is part of the Saudi-led coalition against the Yemen's Shiite rebels, known as Houthis.
Cyprus police say a Syrian woman says she gave birth aboard a boat loaded with 128 other migrants as they made their way from Turkey to the eastern Mediterranean island.
Serbian authorities have extradited a pregnant woman to the Netherlands who is suspected of trying to travel to Syria or Iraq to join jihad fighters there.
A hand grenade attack outside the French Embassy in central Athens lightly wounded a policeman early Thursday, police said, days before U.S. President Barack Obama is due to visit the Greek capital.
German lawmakers have approved plans to keep reconnaissance and refueling aircraft at a Turkish base in the campaign against the Islamic State group, despite tensions with Turkey's government.