A horticulture teacher from Minnesota set a new U.S. record Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after raising a giant gourd weighing 2,560 pounds.
Travis Gienger, of Anoka, Minnesota set the new record and won an...
The Coast Guard says two people from a sunken fishing boat were fending off sharks in the Gulf of Mexico when a crew rescued them and one other person from waters off the Louisiana coastline.
The Coast Guard...
Surveillance camera video showed a volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupting and spewing ash towards the sea.
The volcano erupted and triggered seismic vibrations early on Sunday, according to the...
Thousands of flu vaccines were found on the shore of Oquendo beach, in Peru, during a beach clean-up campaign carried out by the Non-Governmental Organization Vida.
Activists and workers from the organization...
A tropical depression, former Hurricane Julia drenched El Salvador with torrential rains Monday after it reemerged in the Pacific.
Police said two people died in the eastern El Salvador town of Guatajiagua...
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the U.N. refugee agency’s top award on Monday and gave credit to the people behind the welcome of more than 1 million refugees, mostly from Syria, after she...
The European Union's top diplomat Borrell on Monday criticised the bloc's slow pace of action in setting up a military training mission for the Ukrainian armed forces, as foreign ministers prepare to...
This year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to the former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, and two U.S.-based economists, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, “...
Brazilian Presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva campaigned on Sunday in Belo Horizonte, a city where he polled behind incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the first round of the country's election.
Lula...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday toured neighbourhoods in San Andres Island that had been impacted by Hurricane Julia.
It lashed the island after strengthening from a tropical storm on Saturday....