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For three straight nights last week, Upul took to the streets of Sri Lanka's capital city holding a candle or a placard as he protested the country's worst economic crisis in decades.

Multiple people, including several children, were killed after days of heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides in the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, officials told affiliate CNN Brazil on Saturday.

The Department of Defense announced Saturday the repatriation of Sufiyan Barhoumi from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba to his native county of Algeria.

On Friday, 27-year-old Safi Rauf, an Afghan-American who had been held captive by the Taliban since mid-December, was released. Rauf, a US Navy reservist, was providing humanitarian aid through Human First Coalition, an organization he founded to help evacuate Americans and at-risk Afghans from Afghanistan.

As March came to an end, so, too, did Hector. At least until warmer, more favorable weather returns.

Marija Stonyte picks up her phone and anxiously dials in a number. After a couple of rings, a woman picks up.

Six weeks ago, Hungary's election campaign looked and sounded very different.

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has declared a nationwide public emergency following violent protests outside his home over the country's worst economic crisis in decades.

The Saudi-led military alliance and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, who have been at war in Yemen since 2015, agreed to a two-month truce Friday, marking a significant step toward ending the conflict in years.

The family of an American citizen taken hostage in Afghanistan more than two years ago welcomed an apparent proof of life video that was published on Friday and called on the Biden administration to take "bold and decisive action" to bring him home.

Chilling details have emerged about an armed gang's attack on a train in northern Nigeria which left eight people dead and more than two dozen injured.

Trucks carrying food aid have entered Tigray in northern Ethiopia for the first time since mid-December, according to a tweet from the United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) on Friday.

Some mistakes are hard to shake.

Pope Francis has apologized for the Catholic Church's role in the abuse of Canada's indigenous people, particularly in residential schools.

The US stock market just logged its most tumultuous quarter since the start of the pandemic, as rising inflation and Russia's invasion of Ukraine spooked investors and encouraged companies to think twice about pursuing mergers or Wall Street debuts.

An evil fox spirit is on the loose after breaking free from her rock prison -- that is, if you believe in Japanese mythology.

A miniature unpublished manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13 years old will go on sale for $1.25 million at a New York City book fair later this month.

On a cold March afternoon in a locked-down city in China's northeastern Jilin province, Chang Liping was standing outside a hospital, desperate and unsure of where to go.

A series of terror attacks and violent incidents have put Israel and the Palestinian territories on edge again.

The Toyota Corolla became world's best-selling car mostly because it's inexpensive, efficient and practical. Exciting? Maybe not that.