Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas labelled the US ambassador to Israel David Friedman a "son of a dog" on Monday during an attack

The United States and South Korea yesterday announced that their annual joint military drills will go ahead next month, but the main

The UN on Saturday threw its support behind new elections in Zimbabwe set for July and urged the government to

Facebook Inc faced new calls for regulation from within US Congress and was hit with questions about personal data

A comprehensive, global appraisal of mass species extinction -- and what can be done to reverse it -- kicked off in

A data analysis firm employed by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign tapped the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission, allowing it to capitalize on the private social media activity of a large portion of the US electorate, newspapers report.

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who has endured a year of withering attacks from President Donald

US President Donald Trump decides to sack National Security Advisor HR McMaster, in what would be the latest in a string of high-profile White House departures, The Washington Post reports.

A Japanese Nobel Prize-winner was hospitalized Wednesday and his wife was dead, reportedly after driving off a road in rural Illinois. Ei-

The United State slapped sanctions on 19 Russian individuals and five groups, including Moscow's intelligence services, for meddling in

The world's leading brands of bottled water are contaminated with tiny plastic particles that are likely seeping in during the packaging

Students across the United States walked out of classes yesterday in a nationwide call for action against gun violence following the

President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, saying the two had a "different mindset" on key

US President Donald Trump will support a modest set of fixes to gun laws, stepping back from some of the more sweeping changes he

President Vladimir Putin said in an interview released Friday that he "couldn't care less" if fellow Russian citizens

Kim used his annual New Year address to warn he has a "nuclear button" on his table, sweetening his remarks by

Donald Trump enlisted Friday the help of China's Xi Jinping to keep sanctions pressure on North Korea, amid fears

Donald Trump will make his Latin America debut next month, visiting Peru and Colombia after harsh rhetoric towards

Martin Shkreli, once dubbed the most hated man in America for ratcheting up the price of an HIV drug, was sentenced

A gunman and three women thought to be his hostages were found dead Friday at a California veterans home after an