Seven people at a poultry farm in southern Russia have been infected with H5N8 bird flu, officials say, making it the first time that the highly...
A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the Southern Ocean near Antarctica on Saturday, prompting a tsunami alert for areas which are virtually uninhabited, officials say. Small tsunami...
A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake has struck a lake along the Russia-Mongolia border, with shaking felt across the region, seismologists and residents say. There were no immediate...
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...
