At least 49 people were killed mass shootings at two mosques, full of worshippers attending Friday prayers, in an attack broadcast in a horrifying, live video by a white nationalist in New Zealand's Christchurch.
At least 23 people died and several were injured when tornadoes roared through southeast Alabama
The Harbin festival in China, which began on Saturday, has drawn millions of visitors from around the world every year since its inception in the early 1980s.
Firefighters on Monday carefully moved over mud, in search of survivors or bodies four days after the dam collapsed in Brazil, burying mine buildings and surrounding neighborhoods with iron ore waste.
Three people were dead and hundreds injured, at least 12 in critical condition, after the tornado touched down with estimated winds of 200 miles per hour in three neighbourhoods across eastern Havana in Cuba.
Winter's sharpest bite in years moved past painful into life-threatening territory, prompting officials throughout the Midwest in the US to take extraordinary measures to protect the homeless as the chill of the polar vortex froze a huge chunk of the region.
Brazil president Michel Temer attends a parade celebrating the country's Independence Day in Brasilia.
Authorities had to shut down critical transport services due to Typhoon Trami which caused widespread damage across the country.
This is Uzbekistan president Shavkat Mirziyoyev first visit to India since assuming office in 2016.
Hurricane Willa, a Category 4 storm, is on course to slam into Mexico near the resort town of Mazatlan on Tuesday.
The demonstration came one week after opposition leader Juan Guaido proclaimed himself the nation's rightful president amid a sea of supporters, as the anti-Maduro movement tried to establish a transitional government.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence sat behind US president Donald Trump as he gave his second State of the Union address. Pelosi had previously denied Trump permission to give his speech during the 35-day government shutdown that ended on 26 January.
The World War II hero, who also presided during the collapse of the Soviet Union and the final months of the Cold War,Bush entered the White House in 1989 with a reputation as a man of indecision and indeterminate views.
France's most violent urban riot in more than a decade engulfed some of central Paris with demonstrators protesting against rising taxes and high cost of living.
A powerful earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, triggering a 3-metre-tall tsunami that an official said swept away houses in at least two cities.
Flames approached residential areas as firefighters battled the blaze overnight during a wildfire that burned dozens of homes at Thousand Oaks and Paradise in California
Around 70 leaders including US and Russian Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin marked the World War I centenary of the 1918 Armistice in the French capital.
The Camp Fire and the Woolsey Fire are the two deadly wildfires burning at opposite ends of California.
Protesters swarmed the streets of Washington, and rushed to the steps of the Supreme Court to bang loudly on its bronze doors around the time Brett Kavanaugh was set to be sworn in inside.
Indonesia’s search and rescue agency confirmed the crash of Lion Air flight JT610, adding that it lost contact with ground officials 13 minutes after takeoff, and a tug boat leaving the capital’s port saw it fall.
Former US presidents and John McCain's family members gathered on Saturday at the Washington National Cathedral to honor and remember the late senator.
The arrest of Myanmar Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo has sparked an outcry among the international community as an attempt to muzzle reporting on last year's crackdown by Myanmar's security forces on the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had urged people to evacuate early and ordered to take all necessary measures to protect residents from typhoon Jebi.
North Korea staged a huge military parade on 9 September to mark its 70th anniversary as a nation.
Series of natural gas explosions killed a teenager, injured at least 10 others and left dozens of homes in smoldering ruins in three towns of north Boston — Lawrence, Andover and North Andover.
North Korea staged a huge military parade on Sunday to mark its 70th anniversary as a nation but held back its most advanced missiles and devoted nearly half of the parade to civilian efforts to build the domestic economy.
Hurricane Florence put a corridor of more than 10 million people in the crosshairs on Wednesday as the monster storm closed in on the Carolinas in US, uncertainty over its projected path spreading worry across the Southeast.
Mangkhut weakened from a typhoon to a tropical storm on Monday as it moved deeper into southern China.
Maldives' Opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih declared victory early Monday in the country's contentious presidential election.
US Senator from Arizona John McCain, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 81, became a public figure at age 31 when his bed-bound image was broadcast from North Vietnam in 1967.