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The news that Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize came as the second shock in a week to the Colombian people -- including Santos.

The British pound suffered a jarring flash crash on Friday, nosediving more than 6% against the dollar in a matter of minutes.

The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts to end his country's long-running civil war with FARC rebels.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Tuesday that the ceasefire signed with Marxist rebel group FARC will expire at the end of the month.

For many inhabitants of the former Eastern Bloc, the Soviet era was a traumatic experience that is best forgotten.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte marked the week leading to his first 100 days in office with renewed attacks on the country's alliance with the United States.

Fabio Cuttica waited days to journey into the jungle.

Vanessa Rodel didn't realize she was sheltering the most wanted man in the world until the morning after he showed up unexpectedly at her door.

The United Nations Security Council Thursday formally approved the nomination of former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres to be the next secretary-general.

The Syrian military and its allies took control Thursday of part of a key neighborhood on Aleppo's front line, pushing into the city's rebel-held east, Syrian state media and a UK-based monitoring group said.

Virgil Kahl believes America is in "breathtaking" danger: It's deeply in debt.

After years of competing with Old World rivals South African wine is starting to get major recognition.

As authorities scramble to find ways to prevent the next mass terror plot, a new technology could change those investigations: high-speed analytics aimed at helping law enforcement find terrorist plotters -- and stop them before they attack.

Turkey's newspapers this week documented the deep cracks appearing inside the treasury room of Istanbul's Topkapi Palace -- one of the country's top tourism destinations and once the home of Ottoman sultans. While older cracks had been covered with concrete, "Hurriyet" reported that parts of this iconic structure risk total collapse as a "result of years of neglect of historical heritage."

A government contractor was arrested in August for allegedly stealing top secret intelligence, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

A top Russian official strongly denied Wednesday a report that Moscow may have been behind the alleged drugging of two US diplomats in St. Petersburg and suggested instead that the pair may simply have been drunk.