Pakistan has been hit by what appears to be a nationwide blackout, leaving up to 200 million people without power, officials and witnesses say. Power has...
The Pacific island nation of Samoa and parts of Kiribati were the first places in the world to welcome 2021, leaving behind a year which was...
A fugitive who survived a shooting in northern Mexico earlier this month has been executed by a gunman disguised as a nurse, officials say. The killer...
At least seven people were killed Sunday when a man with a knife went on a stabbing spree on a street in northeast China, authorities and...
Eswatini Prime Minister Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, who was hospitalized nearly three weeks ago after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, has died, making him the first...
The social networking website Twitter went down Thursday in what appeared to be a global outage, but there’s no evidence of a security breach, the company...
An elderly woman in the Netherlands has died after getting COVID-19 a second time, researchers reported on Monday. It’s the first time a death has been...
French Polynesia President Édouard Fritch tested positive for COVID-19 upon his return from France, where he met with President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Jean Castex,...
A moderate 5.4-magnitude earthquake has struck the northern Philippines, with shaking felt in the Metro Manila area, seismologists and residents say. There is no threat of...
Four cases of coronavirus reinfection have been confirmed in Qatar in the world’s largest study to date, though additional research is required to determine the likelihood...