Pope Francis celebrated the fifth Christmas Midnight Mass of his pontificate where he highlighted the Biblical story of Joseph and Mary, the parents of Jesus Christ at the Saint Peters's Basilica in Vatican City
Some 200 people have been killed in the southern Philippines after a tropical storm battered the archipelago nation's second-largest island, triggering heavy flooding and landslides
California wildfire has killed two people and seared its way through cities, towns and wilderness northwest of Los Angeles became the largest blaze ever officially recorded in California on Friday,
Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak led hundreds of Muslims in a rally on Friday, slamming the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital
A car ploughed into a crowd at a busy intersection in Australia's second-largest city Melbourne on Thursday, injuring at least 19 people. The driver of the car was arrested immediately by the Victoria police
Donald Trump celebrated a "historic" victory as the US Congress passed a massive Republican tax cut plan, handing the president his first major legislative achievement.
An Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off an overpass south of Seattle and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below.
A raging California wildfire powered by fierce winds grew into the third-largest in state history on Saturday as forced evacuations turned neighborhoods into ghost towns and ash fell in some areas like heavy snow
Tens of thousands protested in Jakarta in Indonesia on Sunday against the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital
Thousands of North Koreans marched up Pyongyang's Mansu Hill to bow and place flowers at the feet of two giant bronze statues of Kim Jong II and national founder Kim II Sung
At least three people have been killed following a strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake on Indonesia's main island of Java
Doug Jones won Alabama's special Senate election on Tuesday, beating back history, an embattled Republican opponent and President Donald Trump.
An immigrant from Bangladesh detonated a homemade pipe bomb strapped to his body in a crowded New York subway passage on Monday.
Heavy snowfall in Europe including Britain and Germany caused travel mayhem
Hundreds of protesters, some of them waving Palestinian flags, held demonstrations near the US embassy in Lebanon on Sunday.
Nepal's Left alliance is heading towards comfortable majority in the parliamentary elections, winning 72 of the 89 seats so far in the historic polls
Thousands protested outside the US Embassy in the Indonesian capital on Sunday against President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, many waving banners saying “Palestine is in our hearts”
Brutal winds that fueled southern California wildfires finally began to ease on Saturday
The quick-moving fires that have forced thousands of Californians to evacuate swept across the southern part of the state on Friday, destroying buildings and taxing fire crew
President Vladimir Putin on Friday launched a $ 27 billion liquefied natural gas plant in Siberian Arctic as Russia
Thousands of Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli forces in east Jerusalem and the West Bank over the American decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
Australia's parliament passed a bill legalising same-sex marriage on Thursday, after the nation overwhelmingly voted in favour of changing the law
Following US president Donald Trump's announcement recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital, protests erupted in the Arab world condemning the move
Graduate students around the U.S. are staging campus walk-outs and lobbying Congress in an effort to keep their tuition waivers tax-free.
Shattering decades of US neutrality, Donald Trump announced US recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
A new wildfire erupted in Los Angeles on Tuesday as firefighters battled three other destructive blazes across Southern California.
Canada’s trade minister extended his stay in Beijing on Tuesday in a bid to salvage early talks on a free trade agreement with China, but Canada faces tough choices after the United States threatened to pull out of NAFTA
Around 1,000 people marched on the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in what they termed as an "anti-authoritarian" protest.
Thousands of Hondurans across the country blocked roads with viral footage of confrontations with police, who attempted to disperse demonstrators with tear gas, circulating on social media
Muslims in India and Pakistan celebrated Eid-e-Milad, the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad, with religious fervour