The U.S. military is preparing a contingency plan for the possibility that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's planned trip to Taiwan could provoke Chinese aggression.
Morad Tahbaz, Iranian-American conservationist who also holds British citizenship, has been granted bail after he was convicted of espionage charges in Iran, according to the semi-official ILNA news agency.
The Philippines was rocked by a major 7-magnitude earthquake Wednesday that triggered landslides and damaged buildings. At least four people were killed and dozens more injured.
Pope Francis delivered a homily to an audience of approximately 50,000 people in Edmonton, Canada, on Tuesday morning as part of his apostolic journey.
Japan executed Tomohiro Kato, who crashed a truck into a Tokyo crowd before exiting to stab people at random in 2008. He is Japan's first execution since December.
A 22-year-old British tourist died before he could catch a private jet ride back to London after walking into still spinning helicopter blades near Athens after a Mykonos vacation.
Liberia is celebrating the anniversaries of its founding and independence from the United States this year as much as the country struggles with extreme poverty.
The Council of the European Union has extended its sanctions against Russia for at least six more months in hopes of encouraging an end to the country's invasion of Ukraine.
The two finalists to replace U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, debated Monday night, garnering comparisons to Margaret Thatcher.
Pope Francis apologized to Indigenous people of Canada for abuses and what he called "forced assimilation" conducted by residential schools over the course of many years.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán came under fire after saying European countries involved in "race-mixing" were "no longer countries" during a university keynote speech.
A 75-year-old nudist was arrested and charged for shooting and killing a younger man who allegedly harassed beach-goers and exposed himself to a woman in Lyon, France.
China launched a laboratory module on Sunday to be added to its space station, but debris from its massive rocket is expected to fall back to Earth at an unknown location.