Massive cuts to humanitarian budgets risk leaving more than 11 million refugees without desperately needed aid, the United Nations warned Friday. That corresponds to a full third of the number reached ...

Spanish firefighters on Friday were bringing under control a forest fire near Madrid that had cloaked the capital in a huge cloud of acrid smoke. The blaze that broke out on Thursday around 50 ...

Netflix reported stronger than expected second-quarter results Thursday, with profit jumping 45 percent year-over-year as the streaming giant benefited from subscription price increases and a growing ...

Juul Labs announced Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration authorized the e-cigarette maker to market its vaping system and refill capsules in the United States. In 2022, Juul agreed to pay ...

Austrian daredevil "fearless Felix" Baumgartner, who died on Thursday aged 56, stunned fans around the world by breaking the sound barrier in a hair-raising dive from the fringe of space more than a ...

The EU executive is preparing a list of proposed restrictions on US services companies -- including tech giants -- should Brussels fail to strike a trade deal with Washington, European diplomats said ...

A drone loaded with explosives struck an oil field in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region on Thursday, Kurdish forces said -- the second attack in two days on the Norwegian-operated site. "At 10:55 am ...

Italian junior cyclist Samuele Privitera has died aged 19 following a fall at this week's Tour of the Aoste Valley-Mont Blanc, the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) announced on Thursday. Privitera, ...

Myanmar's junta claimed on Thursday to have ousted armed rebels who captured a town near the military's main officer training academy after a year-long battle. A 2021 coup sparked a civil war in ...

Georgia has arrested two men for allegedly attempting to illegally sell weapons-grade uranium, officials in the Caucasus nation said on Thursday. Counter-intelligence and special operations units ...

The 500,000-strong Haitian community in the United States is in a state of panic as the Trump administration pushes to deport those who fled here after a huge 2010 earthquake. "I came here seeking ...

After a Kentucky teenager died by suicide this year, his parents discovered he had received threatening texts demanding $3,000 to suppress an AI-generated nude image of him. The tragedy underscores ...