An ancient trading post known for housing some of West Africa's most historically significant manuscripts could soon be covered by the Sahara Desert.

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death.

Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian.

An airlift carrying more than 1,000 Chinese nationals who had worked at online scam centers in eastern Myanmar began Thursday, after the rescued workers were taken across the border to Thailand and put on chartered flights to China.

Hamas militants have released the bodies of four more hostages from the Gaza Strip more than 16 months after they were taken captive.

Hamas militants have released the bodies of three more hostages from the Gaza Strip more than 16 months after they were taken captive.

The bodies of the youngest Israelis held hostage by the militant Hamas group have been returned to Israel, dashing the hopes of a nation hoping for a happier ending.

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy says he saw no appetite for peace from Russia in Ukraine after listening to a speech by Russia’s top diplomat at a tense Group of 20 meeting in South Africa.

Actor Kim Sae-ron’s death adds to the list of celebrity deaths in South Korea that underscore the enormous pressure they face under the gaze of a relentlessly unforgiving media that pounces on their every misstep.

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

The Israeli military says the remains of two child hostages have been identified but another body released by Hamas was not the boys’ mother.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine three years ago has turned into Europe’s largest conflict since World War II.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with orchestrating a plot to stay in office despite losing the 2022 election.

The United States government is formally designating eight Latin American organized crime groups that also operate in the U_S_ to be “foreign terrorist organizations.”.

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum says surveillance drone flights by the U.S. government over Mexico are occurring in collaboration with and at the request of her government.

The freeze on U.S. foreign aid ordered by President Donald Trump has effectively halted one of the world's most successful responses to a disease.

NATO members are continuing their largest combat exercises of 2025 amid concern within the 32-nation alliance over its most powerful member, the United States.

European Union envoys have approved new sanctions against Russia, with the measures set to enter into force next week on the third anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Top U.S. and Russian officials have had their most extensive high-level engagement since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine almost three years ago.

The illegal trade of lion and leopard parts is growing in Senegal and threatening the lion's survival across West Africa.

Brazil’s government has approved joining OPEC+, a group of major oil-exporting nations.

The Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is hurting a variety of U.S. companies, nonprofits and farms.

Sudanese officials and rights groups say attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Force have killed hundreds of civilians, including infants, in White Nile state.

A senior Hamas leader says the militant group will release six living Israeli hostages on Saturday and the bodies of four others on Thursday.