SITTWE, Myanmar – The U.N. agency helping Myanmar carry out its first census in decades says it is “deeply concerned” members of the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim...
HOUSTON -Two days before Texas is set to execute its first inmate with a new batch of drugs, the state prison agency remained determined...
SAN FRANCISCO – Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was charged Tuesday with U.S. felony counts involving safety violations linked to a deadly 2010 natural gas pipeline...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A powerful magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off Chile’s northern coast Tuesday night, causing landslides and setting off a small tsunami that forced...
Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel will meet with Malaysia’s defence minister this week, amid ongoing criticism about how well the search for missing Flight 370 has...
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration’s health care website is stumbling under heavy traffic on deadline day for sign-ups. Visitors to HealthCare.gov on Monday morning saw messages that...
MONROVIA, Liberia – Liberia’s health minister says two patients have tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus, which is already believed to have killed at least...
YOKOHAMA, Japan – Global warming is driving humanity toward a whole new level of many risks, a United Nations scientific panel reports, warning that the wild...
LAGOS, Nigeria – Amnesty International says increasing atrocities by extremists and uncontrolled reprisals by security forces have killed at least 1,500 people this year in northeastern...
PARIS – The United States and Russia agreed Sunday that the crisis in Ukraine requires a diplomatic resolution, but four hours of talks between U.S. Secretary...