Forty-six people from the ethnic Pygmy group were killed -- some of them decapitated -- on Wednesday in a suspected militant attack in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an NGO official based in the central African country.

The Dutch government has resigned amid a scandal that saw thousands of families wrongly accused of child welfare fraud.

Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, says his home is "under siege" from military.

Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy S21 lineup of phones, which feature upgraded cameras and new privacy features.

TVs seem to get bigger, slimmer and more connected each year. But now, in 2021, you can also see right through them.

The bitcoin roller coaster continues.

With the coronavirus pandemic shuttering theaters for months on end and major blockbusters delayed into an unforeseeable future, 2020 was one of the worst years in domestic box office history.

The US economy and labor market, still far from fully recovered, are now bracing for a terrible, virus-spreading winter. It is hard to feel optimistic, but help is on the way. A strong recovery in the second half of 2021 may lead the unemployment rat…

Last month marked 20 years of continuous human presence on the International Space Station (ISS). Scientific research to improve life aboard the ISS has led to countless developments in space technology, but it has also brought benefits to people on…

If you're looking for a reason to care about tree loss, the nation's latest heat wave might be it. Trees can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a recent study.

Rich people don't just have bigger bank balances and more lavish lifestyles than the rest of us -- they also have bigger carbon footprints.

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has broken her silence on the magazine's February cover featuring Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, which caused controversy when it was prematurely leaked over the weekend.

A 20,000-square-foot mansion in California is up for auction -- and with an asking price of $160 million, it could become the most expensive home ever to go under the hammer.

A supervillain, an assassin, a mountain car chase and an Aston Martin equipped with gadgetry -- the Alpine scenes in 1964's "Goldfinger" set a new benchmark for the archetypal James Bond sequence. And as well as being, arguably, the most iconic six m…

Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West have opened the doors of their California mansion to Architectural Digest magazine, which defines it as a "wildly idiosyncratic family refuge in suburban Los Angeles."

To look back at the year in fashion is to look back at a year of crisis. In the first few months of 2020, as the severity and scale of the coronavirus pandemic became clear, businesses around the world faced incomparable challenges posed by the large…

With no end to the global pandemic in sight, fashion and sportswear brands have been quickly adapting their lines to include face masks decorated with logos and stylish patterns.

As pandemic quarantines go, this might be the best: sprawling on a hotel balcony overlooking azure Caribbean waters as you bake gently in the sun.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has announced it has filed for bankruptcy petitions in a US court as part of a restructuring plan.

Police involved in protecting the Capitol building last week have spoken for the first time describing what happened as "brutal, medieval style combat".

Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, has a large house about an hour outside Uganda's capital, Kampala.

The Dutch government led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte has resigned over a childcare subsidies scandal.

Global deaths linked to coronavirus have passed two million - just over a year since it was first identified in China.

At least nine people were left needing hospital treatment after a bus fell 15m (49ft) off a bridge and into an underpass in New York.

A mass transfer of COVID-19 patients in the Amazon's biggest city is taking place due to a shortage of oxygen tanks, as the UK's transport secretary says Britain was only aware of a new variant originating from Brazil since Sunday.

We've come to Yunnan province, in southwest China, with a question: after all this time, after so many dead, how do we still not know where COVID came from?

In northern France, a sense of anxiety. The town of Roubaix is in the midst of an intensive programme, which aims to test as much of the local population as possible, over the course of a week.

World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have arrived in Wuhan to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese state media has confirmed.

French archaeologists said Thursday they discovered the grave of a small child with what appears to be a pet dog dating to the Roman rule of the region about 2,000 years ago.

A South Korean celebrity who owned a nightclub in Seoul that shuttered after multiple rape incidents was indicted for mobilizing gang members.

The Russian government announced Friday that it will withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty -- a 30-year-old pact among 34 nations that permits unarmed surveillance flights -- after the United States dropped out last fall.

Japan's ruling party politicians slammed a South Korean court decision on former South Korean "comfort women."

A major scandal in the Netherlands -- which wrongly accused parents of fraud related to payments for childcare benefits, and forced them to repay that money -- led to the collapse of the entire Dutch government on Friday

North Korea could be reopening its borders temporarily to foreign visitors during the Pyongyang Marathon, while offering runners the option of a "virtual" race.

A search for survivors is underway in Indonesia after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the country's Sulawesi Island.

North Korea held a military parade in Pyongyang at which it unveiled a new submarine-launched ballistic missile it called the "world's most powerful weapon," state media reported Friday.

Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict received the first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 on Wednesday, the Vatican said.

A South Korean court said a victim of sexual assault at Seoul's city hall also was subjected to unwanted sexual advances from former Mayor Park Won-soon.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in stressed the importance of strong ties with Japan during a rare meeting with Tokyo's top diplomatic envoy to Seoul.

A large U.S. military base in central Seoul is reporting multiple COVID-19 cases as South Korea struggles to keep up with the novel coronavirus.

Ugandans went to the polls on Thursday to elect a president, with the incumbent leader -- who's ruled for nearly four decades -- facing a number of challengers, including a former rapper.

Countries are not adapting fast enough to climate change and financing for adaptation has fallen short, according to a United Nations report released Thursday.

North Korea has used measures against COVID-19 that led to greater repression, Human Rights Watch said in a new report.

North Korea appeared to have staged an evening military parade after the regime's Eighth Party Congress.

South Korean pharmaceutical company Celltrion announced that its COVID-19 treatment candidate shortened recovery time by up to six days.

South Korea's Supreme Court upheld the 20-year prison sentence of former President Park Geun-hye on Thursday, ending legal battles over corruption and abuse of power charges that have gone on since 2017.

China reported its first COVID-19 death in eight months on Thursday as a team from the World Health Organization arrived in the Asian nation to investigate the virus' origins.

After the blockbuster snowstorm slammed Spain late last week, frigid air produced one of Spain's coldest mornings in at least the last 20 years.