China has announced its first overall population decline in recent years amid an aging society and plunging birthrate.

The ninth atmospheric river in a three-week series of major winter storms was churning through California on Monday, leaving mountain driving dangerous and the flooding risk high near swollen rivers eve…

Americans paid tribute to civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. The holiday is marked each year on the Monday following King’s birthday on Jan. 15. King would have turned 94 on Sunday. 

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The British government said Monday it will block a new law that makes it easier for people in Scotland to legally change their gender, sparking conflict with transgender rights advocates and the nationa…

California storms have saturated the state’s coastal mountains and triggered slides on wildfire-scarred slopes, But so far, flooding has mostly just blocked highways, with lessons learned after the dead…

The annual meeting in Davos of some of the world’s wealthiest and most influential figures has increasingly become a target of bizarre claims from a growing chorus of commentators who believe the forum …

Mursal Nabizada, a former female member of Afghanistan’s parliament, has been killed by unknown gunmen at her home in Kabul, police said.

The death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 40, authorities said Monday, as Western analysts pointed to indica…

Convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, now 60, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said.

In 2010, Anju Khatiwada joined Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, following in the footsteps of her husband, a pilot who had died in a crash four years earlier when a small passenger plane he was flying for the dom…