In the San Francisco Bay area, a fire engulfed a commercial building on Thursday and threatened other business in the area.
The fire burned through the structure with heavy flames and smoke rising from the...
On the Spanish island of La Palma, a volcano continued to spew lava and black smoke on Thursday evening.
The airport on the island shut down again earlier in the day due to ash fall from the volcano. Scientists...
Israel opened its gleaming pavilion ceremonially at the world's fair in Dubai on Thursday.
The opening came a year after normalizing ties with the United Arab Emirates and amid a pandemic that has disrupted...
Officials have been cleaning up the spill by skimming oil off the surface of the ocean, erecting protective booms to keep crude out of sensitive wetland areas and dispatching workers to collect blobs of oil on...
Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and 1.14 million US dollars. The Swedish Academy said the award was in...
President of Chile Sebastián Piñera announced results of the government's study of booster COVID-19 doses on Thursday.
He said using the new booster doses had resulted in fewer...
The presidents of Ukraine, Israel and Germany attended a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of one of the worst atrocities of the Nazi Holocaust - the Babi Yar massacre.
Nearly 34,000 Jews were...
The UK's Queen Elizabeth II met with Canadian troops on Wednesday.
The troops were guarding her Windsor Castle home and she spoke with the on-duty soldiers of the 1st Reginment of the Royal Canadian House...
Pope Francis expressed "shame" for himself and the Roman Catholic Church for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France on Wednesday.
During his weekly general audience at the Vatican...
The world’s first malaria vaccine should be given to children across Africa, the World Health Organization recommended on Wednesday.
WHO said its decision was based largely on results from ongoing...