Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly kidnapped a baby in the San Francisco Bay Area. Police released a video clip of a man they say walked into a...

At least 200 people are now known to have died in West Darfur in the latest attack on civilians and local forces blamed on Janjaweed militia. Darfur, the semi-arid western region of Sudan where...

A United Nations team is in China ahead of a visit to Xinjiang, in preparation for the human rights commissioner’s long sought inspection expected next month. The delegation was quarantining in Guangzhou,...

Russia has stepped up attempts to encircle defending forces in the east of Ukraine and stood accused of shelling a humanitarian corridor out of Mariupol, as the US vowed to move “heaven...

The German government is expected to use the occasion of a high-level defence meeting on supporting Ukraine to announce that it will send a fleet of anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine, as it...

Donald Trump’s last White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has been removed from the electoral roll in North Carolina, amid a criminal inquiry into whether he committed election fraud by...

The celebrated Italian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, best known for her work documenting the mafia and their victims in Sicily, has died aged 87. Armed only with her Leica camera and...

Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, will be extradited to the United States next week, where he faces drug trafficking and firearms charges, Honduran Security Minister Ruben Sabillon said on Wednesday....

Pakistan's opposition leader Shahbaz Sharifwas elected the country's 23rd prime minister on Monday, leading to hopes that he will be able to pull the country out of its economic and financial crisis. A...

At least 29 people have died after a boat capsized in a river in the northwestern Nigerian state of Sokoto, the governor- of the region said on Wednesday. Five children were among...