Amid resignations and vote-rigging claims, Miss Universe — and pageantry at large — is fighting for relevance.

US retail sales on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, climbed 4.1% compared with last year, according to data released Saturday by Mastercard SpendingPulse. Online shoppers alone ...

Joe Novak’s Facebook pinged last year with a friendly message from a stranger. Little did he know it was the start of an ordeal that would tear his life apart.

Heavy rainfall has unleashed widespread flooding and landslides across Asia, killing more than 600 people with hundreds still missing.

The United States continued its pressure campaign against Venezuela on Saturday as President Donald Trump issued a broad ...

Ukrainian underwater drones have struck two tankers belonging to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet in the Black Sea, according ...

In the next two weeks, social media platforms will start deactivating accounts for children under 16 in Australia under new ...

The award-winning British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard has died, according to his talent agency United Agents. He ...

A monastery overlooking the Mediterranean will be one of the stops on Pope Leo XIV’s three-day visit to Lebanon, a country of complex sectarian politics and long-running conflict.

More than a dozen demonstrators were arrested in lower Manhattan on Saturday after their attempts to stop federal agents from conducting immigration and enforcement activities, according to a law ...

Many of the gravesites that pockmark the north and east of the country are believed to contain the victims of atrocities committed during the civil war. Caught between warring rebel fighters and the ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson already had one of the toughest jobs in Washington: controlling an unruly GOP conference, with its razor-thin majority on the line next November.