US first lady Melania Trump visited on Tuesday a government school in the Indian capital of New Delhi that teaches a special ‘happiness curriculum’, rooted in mindfulness practices.

Riot police were dispatched to the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios on Tuesday as the government ploughed ahead with the construction of controversial new migrant camps, officials said.

Torrential rain brought floods to Indonesia's capital on Tuesday, paralysing large parts of the city as rescue workers used boats to navigate streets turned into murky, brown waterways to get people to safety.

The prime minister of East Timor has sent a letter of resignation to the president, he said on Tuesday, as the tiny Southeast Asian nation faces new political instability after the collapse of a coalition supporting him ...

Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of rape and sexual assault but acquitted of the most serious predatory charges, a verdict hailed as a historic victory by the #MeToo movement ...

The Trump administration is asking Congress for $2.5 billion to fight the fast-spreading coronavirus, including more than $1 billion for vaccines, the White House said on Monday.

At least seven people were killed and around 150 were injured in clashes between opposing groups in the Indian capital, a police official told Reuters on Tuesday, the deadliest riots in the city ...

Italy was due Tuesday to host a summit of health ministers from neighbouring countries to discuss a coordinated response to the coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy.

Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated Nasa as portrayed in the film Hidden Figures to a key role in sending humans to the moon, died yesterday at the age of 101, Nasa said.

Police moved in yesterday morning to clear a rail blockade by an indigenous group in eastern Canada that had been stopping freight and passenger traffic for more than two weeks on one of the country’s busiest lines.

A majority of the US Supreme Court yesterday seemed inclined to find that the federal government had authority to grant a right of way for a proposed $7.5bn natural gas pipeline to cross under the popular Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia.

Haitian police demanding better working conditions shot up the army headquarters, killing two servicemen and wounding a dozen more, the defence ministry said, prompting the government to cancel an upcoming carnival.