Vanderson Chaves has faced many challenges in more than a decade as a Paralympic fencer but none as fearsome as the massive floods in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state.
The Islamic State group says it is responsible for a bombing that killed officers involved in an anti-poppy crop campaign in Afghanistan's northeast.
An anti-discrimination activist in Tunisia was arrested in a money laundering investigation this week as the dangerous and dire conditions facing migrants and their advocates worsen.
The U.N. World Health Organization says it has only three days of fuel for its medical operations in southern Gaza, and shortages have already forced one of three hospitals in the city of Rafah t...
Scores of musicians, hundreds of journalists and thousands of music fans are gathering in the Swedish city of Malmo, where the Eurovision Song Contest is building towards Saturday’s exuberant, ...
World shares are mixed after Wall Street’s lull stretched into a second day.
Norfolk Southern shareholders will decide Thursday morning whether to back an activist investor’s bid to take over the railroad’s board and replace management.
South Korea’s president has dismissed calls for independent investigations into allegations involving his wife and top officials.
Former Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has been sentenced to a year in prison for interfering in a criminal investigation while leading the government of his South Pacific island nation.
In sometimes violent confrontations, police have broken up a protest by pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Amsterdam Wednesday in a second straight day of unrest over the war in Gaza.
Gunmen have killed seven barbers in a home in a volatile province in southwestern Pakistan.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for two missile attacks in the Gulf of Aden on two Panama-flagged container ships that caused no damage.
The European Union marks its annual Europe Day on Thursday.
China reported Thursday that its exports and imports returned to growth in April, suggesting that demand is improving despite an uneven economic recovery.
A crash between a truck and a passenger van on a highway in northwestern China’s Ningxia region has killed nine people.
The Bank of England is expected to maintain interest rates at a 16-year high of 5.25% Thursday, but a cut wouldn’t be a huge surprise as inflation falls from multi-decade highs.
The UW women’s golf team finished in seventh place at the NCAA Cle Elum Regional, two positions out of moving on to the NCAA national championships later this month in Carlsbad, Calif. “It’...
Keeper Andrew Thomas put away the winning penalty kick and the Sounders defeated Louisville City FC 5-4 in penalties to win their U.S. Open Cup match Wednesday.
A group of home sellers who sued Seattle-based Redfin, several other brokerages and the National Association of Realtors are hoping to use the information from those databases to help them in ong...
Severe storms are tearing through the southeast U.S., spawning damaging tornadoes, producing massive hail, and killing two people in Tennessee and another in North Carolina.