A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least four people, toppling buildings and prompting tsunami warnings …

The Italian coastguard has recovered 10 bodies after a boat carrying nearly 60 refugees and migrants capsized near the island of Malta. A fishing boat rescued…

Nigerian forces rescue 360 captives from Boko Haram Nigerian forces rescued 360 captives, including women and children from a Boko Haram mountain hideout in B…

The Nigerian army says it has secured the release of 360 people abducted by Boko Haram earlier this year in the northeastern part of the country. The rescue o…

At least one man has been killed and five wounded in central Israel, Israeli medics have said, in what police called a suspected “terror attack”. Israeli resc…

The intoxicating hemp industry and its allies are quickly running out of time to convince Congress to delay or stop a looming ban on their products. Without ac…

Search and rescue teams in Laos have stopped the search for two men who were stranded in a semi-submerged cave. The search was called off on Saturday, a week …

Japanese police trudged through waist-high mud on Thursday in another unsuccessful day searching for a missing Auburn University student, though his parents sa…

A Nepali climbing guide thought to have died on Mount Everest has been found crawling down to Base Camp, six days after he was last seen alive. Dawa Sherpa wa…

Israeli strikes on residential buildings kill nine in Gaza City Israeli strikes on residential buildings have killed nine Palestinians, setting homes ablaze a…

The Ebola outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is "likely far worse" than official figures suggest, the International Rescue Committee (I…