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One viral video shows what appears to be four sharks swimming in a Jamaican hotel's pool as floodwaters allegedly brought on by Hurricane Melissa swamp the area. Another purportedly depicts Jamaica's Kingston airport completely ravaged by the storm.

The European Central Bank left its key interest rate unchanged Thursday as inflation remains under control and European businesses weather the impact of higher U.S. tariffs better than previously feared.

U.S. President Donald Trump is prioritizing white South Africans in a dramatically decreased quota of refugees allowed into the United States this fiscal year.

President Trump set a ceiling for the U.S. to accept no more than 7,500 refugees in fiscal 2026 and said most of those slots should go to White Afrikaners from South Africa.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have won a legal case against a French magazine that published photos of the couple and their children on a skiing holiday, the royals' office said Thursday.

Iranian officials met with representatives from Belarus and Turkey this week as Tehran looks to expand its circle of allies to circumvent the effects of Western sanctions.

An 80-year-old woman was found dead on an island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef after she was left behind by a cruise ship.

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men covered the entrance to Jerusalem in a sea of black Thursday to protest plans to draft them into the military, singing, clapping and holding signs saying they would rather go to jail.

The U.S. military struck another alleged drug vessel in the eastern Pacific on Wednesday night, bringing the total killed to 61.

A new survey of likely Republican voters shows that a majority supports President Trump selling long-range Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv, which would put Moscow well within range of strikes from Ukraine.