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Some new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers started working before passing background checks and had problems in their past.

Pope Leo XIV is marking the halfway point in his four-nation tour of Africa with a day focused on encouraging Cameroon's young people.

The Iran war's global energy shock is causing some nations in Asia and Africa to boost nuclear power generation and spurring atomic energy plans in non-nuclear countries on both continents.

Star teenager Gout Gout has qualified fastest for Saturday's 100-meter semifinals at the Australian junior athletics championships, less than a week after setting an under-20 world record time in the 200 that was faster than Usain Bolt's best at that ...

More than 4,500 prisoners in Myanmar have been granted amnesty and others have had their sentences reduced under a pardon order by President Min Aung Hlaing to mark the traditional new year.

House Republican leadership is rushing early Friday to renew a controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies.

The leaders of France and the U.K. are holding an international summit to push forward efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil route affected by the U.S.

Singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing of a 14-year-old girl whose decomposing and dismembered body was found in his Tesla.

In September 1963, before Beatlemania, George Harrison visited his sister in the southern Illinois town of Benton.

Brazil's former intelligence agency chief Alexandre Ramagem celebrated on Thursday his release by the U.S.