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When Michael Caines lost his right arm in a car accident in 1994, the dream of becoming a top-level chef seemed a million miles away.

TEDGlobal has released a preview list of speakers for its four day conference in Arusha, Tanzania this August, the first conference on the continent for a decade.

From revolving beds to indoor rainforests, the emirate continues to build extraordinary hotels.

In a Brexit divorce deal offering, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday said European Union citizens would be allowed to stay in the United Kingdom after the country leaves the EU.

The detention of Hong Kong booksellers in China is not an issue the city's government should take up, its incoming leader said Thursday.

There's a running joke that one has to sport a beard to conduct scientific research in Antarctica.

GOP's thinking that wealth equates with virtue is not new, Trump is just willing to say it. The problem is that in domestic policy, it favors the rich over the poor, says Paul Waldman.

The British government has estimated that 600 high-rise buildings across England may be covered in cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower, the 24-story apartment block that was gutted by a huge fire in west London last week.

Prince Harry's thinks that nobody should want the crown. But would Trump? Probably, writes Rob Crilly

A popular social media fitness personality died after what can only be described as a freak accident involving a whipped cream canister.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has reigned for over 65 years, but according to Prince Harry few in the royal family envy her, despite sharing her sense of duty.

Batool Ali is six years old, though you would never guess that from her huge, haunted eyes and emaciated frame. Ribs jutting out over her distended belly, Batool weighs less than 16 kilograms (35 pounds). She is one of nearly half a million children in Yemen suffering from severe malnutrition.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off of Guatemala's Pacific coast Thursday, the US Geological Survey reports. The quake was recorded at about 24 miles (38 km) from the city of Puerto San Jose, according to the USGS.

Yemen is in the grip of a vicious cholera outbreak and a near famine that have coincided to create one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet -- but journalists can't get into the country to report on it. Photographs by Giles Clarke for UN/OCHA.

At least 25 people were killed Thursday in a car bomb attack outside a bank in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, officials said.

So far this year more than 75,000 migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean Sea seeking a new life. But more than 1,770 didn't make it, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

British Prime Minister Theresa May is a leader bruised and battered. In a matter of weeks she has suffered a toxic combination of an election that left her without a parliamentary majority, public anger at her response to the Grenfell Tower disaster and open criticism of her leadership from senior figures in her own party.

A NATO F-16 fighter jet tried to intercept the plane of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the Baltic Sea Wednesday, according to Russian state media.