U.S. President Barack Obama announces U.S. forces in Pakistan killed al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden in a firefight in the city ...

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Multiple air raids targeted an airport, military air base and a power station in Yemen on Thursday, witnesses and the Iran-backed Huthi rebels said.

India's former prime minister Manmohan Singh died Thursday aged 92 after he was admitted to hospital for an illness, the country's leader Narendra Modi said.

Jobless claims arrived lower than forecasts for the week ending Dec. 21. Claims were 219,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the ...

A US official said Thursday that early indications suggest a Russian anti-aircraft system struck an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people.

Three people were killed and 14 were left wounded or missing after Israeli attacks on Sanaa airport and other targets in Yemen, the Iranian-backed Huthi rebels said on Thursday.

A bus went off the road and ended up partially submerged in the Norwegian lake near the Raftsundet strait, killing three people and injuring four, police said Thursday.

Finnish authorities said Thursday that they were investigating an oil tanker that sailed from a Russian port for the "sabotage" of a power cable linking Finland and Estonia that was damaged the ...

Peru has declared an "environmental emergency" after an oil spill that triggered a clean-up operation on a stretch of northern coastline popular with tourists.

Around 125 people have been killed in three days of violent clashes across Mozambique amid opposition-led protests over the presidential election results, a non-governmental organisation said Thursday ...

Australian authorities urged people in dozens of rural communities to leave home "immediately" Thursday to escape an ...