Facebook on Monday said new detection tools wielded by its counterterrorism team are quickly detecting and removing extremist propaganda for the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda. The leading social network ‘took action’ on 1.9...

Three Mexican film students who went missing five weeks ago were kidnapped, tortured, killed and likely dissolved in acid, investigators said Monday, a gruesome end to a case that triggered vehement protests. The students — Salomon Aceves...

Canadian police sought a motive Tuesday for a van attack on a bustling downtown Toronto street that left at least 10 pedestrians dead. The driver of the van, who was arrested, was to appear in court Tuesday at 10am (1400 GMT), Canadian media...

An emerging online market for elephant skin in China is threatening the survival of the creatures in neighbouring Myanmar as poaching intensifies to meet demand, conservationists warned Tuesday. Myanmar has watched with alarm as the number of...

Australian police were Tuesday investigating how a 12-year-old boy managed to fly alone to the Indonesian island of Bali and spend four days at a resort using his parents’ credit card. The boy ran away from his Sydney home after a row with...

Doctors at Johns Hopkins University said Monday they have performed the world’s first total penis and scrotum transplant on a US military serviceman who was wounded in Afghanistan. The 14-hour operation took place on March 26, and was...

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hold their first state dinner on Tuesday, hosting the leader of America’s oldest ally for a glittering event at the White House. French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife,...

Britain’s Prince William accompanied his wife Kate as she left hospital Monday evening after giving birth to a baby boy, the couple’s third child who is fifth in line to the British throne. The boy, weighing eight pounds and seven...

Former US president Barack Obama will deliver the annual Nelson Mandela memorial lecture at a 4,000-capacity arena in Johannesburg in July, South African organisers announced on Monday. Obama, who met with Mandela in 2005 and who made an...

US police hunted a semi-nude gunman who shot four people dead at a waffle restaurant Sunday after he fled from a “hero” who disarmed him. Police in the Tennessee city of Nashville said the suspect in the country’s latest mass...

The psychologist behind an app that harvested data from up to 87 million Facebook users defended his role in the scandal Sunday, saying he “never heard a word” of opposition from the social media giant. Facebook says Aleksandr...

Former New York City mayor and billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg on Sunday promised $4.5 million to fulfill the United States’s commitment to the Paris climate agreement. “America made a commitment and as an American if...

The Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, an artistic Renaissance jewel, opened up to the digital age on Sunday with the first live concert streamed over the internet from the famous sacred space. It was a performance of Scottish composer James...

Nguyen was nine when he boarded a boat alone to escape the communist regime in Vietnam for the United States. Some 40 years later, he returned in shackles, deported from the only country he really knows to one he can scarcely remember.​ With...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has declared an end to the nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests that sent tensions soaring on the peninsula, in the region, and beyond. The move, enshrined in a decision by the ruling...