Hurricane Erin threatened North Carolina's coast Wednesday with huge waves and flooding, as the strengthening Category 2 ...

India on Wednesday test-fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads, a ...

Abrupt and potentially irreversible changes in Antarctica driven by climate change could lift global oceans by metres and ...

France's Champagne region kicked off its official grape harvest Wednesday, with producers predicting a "promising" yield ...

England coach John Mitchell has named an unchanged team from their final warm-up game for their Women's Rugby World Cup ...

More than 20 people were killed on Wednesday in a torrential spell of monsoon rain in Pakistan, where downpours have swept ...

Europe has registered a record number of outbreaks of mosquito-borne illnesses such as chikungunya and West Nile virus this ...

Stock markets were mixed Wednesday after a US tech sell-off while investors awaited signals from US policymakers on the ...

The death toll from a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants returning from Iran and two other vehicles in western ...

Syria's foreign minister met with an Israeli delegation in Paris to discuss de-escalation and the situation in Druze-majority ...

Japan hosted African leaders on Wednesday for a three-day development conference, offering itself as an alternative to China ...

Senator Rodrigo Paz, the surprise top finisher in Bolivia's first-round presidential election, spent years traveling the ...