Angry demonstrators in Brasilia have started a fire inside the ministry of agriculture and have damaged several other ministerial buildings.
Brazilian authorities estimate around 35,000...
A federal high court in Ethiopia has sentenced politician Yonatan Tesfaye to six years and six months in prison for planning, preparing and encouraging...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg features in a long line of university dropouts who became millionaires after founding technology companies - Bill Gates and Steve...
An Ivy League student will be graduating with one of the highest accolades after submitting a 10-track rap album for his final thesis, the first to do so...
He’s accused of attempted murder, but it’s what allegedly did afterwards that’s raising a stink.
Being accused of a crime is pretty crappy, but that’s...
Forbes Magazine is well-known for chronicling the lives of the rich and famous. The magazine has released its list of America’s richest self-made women...
Whether enveloped by the thick smog from factories or choked with invisible poisons from vehicle exhausts, many cities around the world are losing the...
Uganda's censorship board has banned a Dutch film, The Dinner Club, after accusing it of "glorifying homosexuality" the Embassy of The Netherlands in Kampala...
Mexican crime reporter Javier Valdez Cárdenas was assassinated Monday by an armed group that reportedly shot him while he was driving, according to both...
Twenty-seven-year-old Brittany Winchester will compete at this weekend's Miss USA pageant as Miss Indiana.
I first started tanning the summer I went to freshman prom...
Friday’s cyber-attack has affected more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries, Europol chief Rob Wainwright says.
Speaking to Britain’s ITV, he said the world faced...
As soon as President Macron finished uttering "vive le France", the handshaking and celebratory music began.
'Deep change' ahead as Macron vows to begin work...
Somalia's president has called on the international community to lift an arms embargo on his country as government soldiers battle to regain territory from...
A Mexican businesswoman who headed a group of 600 families searching for their disappeared relatives has been killed.
Miriam Rodriguez Martinez was shot in her...
Authorities in Thailand have warned Facebook to take down content critical of the monarchy, or face legal action.
The social media giant has been given...
India's Supreme Court has formally opened hearings into a number of petitions challenging the controversial practice of instant divorce in Islam.
The court said it...
An evangelical Nicaraguan pastor and four followers have been sentenced to 30 years for burning a woman to death in a so-called exorcism ritual.
Vilma...
President Donald Trump has fired the director of the FBI over his handling of the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's emails, the administration says.
The White...
Venezuela's opposition protests on Wednesday may be the messiest in a six-week wave of unrest as demonstrators prepare to throw feces at security forces,...
An Indonesian court has sentenced the minority Christian governor of Jakarta to two years in prison for blaspheming the Koran following a trial that...
Almost two months since Unicef director Charlotte Nikoi’s disappearance, President Jacob Zuma appealed to anyone who may have information to come forward and assist...
The remains of at least 7,000 people may be buried beneath the University of Mississippi, officials estimate.
The bodies of the state's first mental institution...
Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to...
Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, spoke at an event in Beijing on Saturday.
She was...
A US soldier has been killed in Somalia during operations against al-Shabab militants, the American military says.
Two other US servicemen were injured in Thursday's...
Theresa May has accused European politicians of making "threats" against Britain to try to influence the general election result.
The PM launched a stinging attack...
