Gunmen kidnap nearly 300 students in northwest Nigeria
KURIGA, Nigeria -- Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school in Nigeria's nort…
KURIGA, Nigeria -- Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school in Nigeria's nort…
This year on International Women's Day, the Irish are wrestling with questions over whether a woman's place is still in the home and how to define a family, in…
LONDON -- A seven-year investigation of a former Irish Republican Army double agent concluded Friday in an interim report that the spy was probably responsible…
A few days after Charlie the swan's partner died in an accident, the bird wandered into traffic in southwest England. Nearby residents rushed out of their home…
TALLINN, Estonia -- A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio. A poet assaulted by police after he recited a poem objecting to Russia…
HONG KONG -- Hong Kong unveiled a proposed law that threatens life imprisonment for residents who "endanger national security" on Friday, deepening worries abo…
MEXICO CITY -- Cities across Latin America were cloaked in purple Friday as hundreds of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Women's Day, co…
PARIS -- France inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution Friday, in a world first and a powerful message of support to women around the g…
TOKYO -- Akira Toriyama, the creator of the best-selling Dragon Ball and other popular anime who influenced Japanese comics, has died, his studio said Friday. …
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Over the past decade, Grace Subathirai Nathan graduated from law school, got married, opened a law firm and had two babies. But part …
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The mother of a 6-year-old girl who has been missing in South Africa for nearly three weeks was arrested and charged Thursday with k…
TORONTO -- Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who forged close ties with two Republican U.S. presidents through a sweeping free trade agreement tha…
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine claimed Tuesday it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea using high-tech sea drones as Kyiv's forces take aim at targets w…
CAIRO -- Three days of negotiations with Hamas over a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages failed to achieve a breakthrough on Tuesday, Egypt…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti's prime minister landed in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, answering a key question on the minds of all Haitians ever since armed gangs …