Thirteen people were taken to trauma hospitals after a maintenance and a passenger train collided in northern California Authorities say more than two dozen people have been injured in a light rail train derailment in ...

Moscow and Beijing warn of ‘threats to international peace and security’ after latest US test of new cruise missile. Russia and China have asked the United NationsSecurity Council to meet on Thursday over “statements by ...

Satellite images spotted 9,507 new forest fires in the country, mostly in the Amazon basin, home to the world’s largest tropical forest seen as vital to countering global warming. Brasilia: Wildfires raging in the Amazon ...

Facebook is taking another shot at news curation by hiring a “small team” of journalists to select stories for its upcoming News Tab, a section of its mobile app that’s due to begin testing later ...

A young rape survivor who’d been accused of inducing an abortion and previously sentenced to 30 years in prison was acquitted of all charges by an El Salvador judge Monday at the conclusion of a ...

Joe Biden won’t be among the parade of White House hopefuls in California this week, skipping the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting to campaign in New Hampshire instead. The former vice president will have the ...

Classrooms in Indian-administered Kashmir were mostly empty on Monday, despite a government notice that schools would re-open, as tensions remained high across the territory. Many parents in Srinagar, Kashmir’s main city, kept their children at ...

Regime says Pyongyang and Seoul have nothing to talk about while South Korea continues military drills with US North Korea has fired at least two unidentified projectiles into the sea off its east coast, shortly ...