Niger's military rulers on Tuesday withdrew French humanitarian NGO Acted's licence to operate amid tensions with its former colonial ruler.

British writer Samantha Harvey on Tuesday won the 2024 Booker Prize, a prestigious English-language literary award, for her novel tracking six astronauts in space for 24 hours.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as head of the US Department of Homeland Security, a powerful post at the heart of the Republican's hard-line ...

Mexican prosecutors said Tuesday that they had arrested a suspect in the murder and decapitation of the mayor of a violent southern city after he had been in office for less than a week.

The Tampa Bay Rays will not be able to return to their hurricane-damaged home ballpark until the start of the 2026 season and ...

A Pretoria court on Tuesday found a former South African policeman guilty of shooting dead a young anti-apartheid campaigner in a township east of Johannesburg almost three decades ago. The high court ...

US President Joe Biden's outgoing administration said Tuesday it still hoped to reach a Gaza ceasefire deal, even as key go-between Qatar suspended mediation.

Economists expect inflation moved largely sideways in October, signaling a bump in the road back to the Federal Reserve’s 2% ...

Mercer Global Advisors has acquired two registered investment advisor firms that together will add nearly $1.7 billion in ...

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said it launched a drone attack on a military base near the town of Nahariya in northern Israel on Tuesday.

The incoming Trump administration is expected to create a climate that will drive more mergers and acquisitions in the ...

Photos published online Tuesday showed jailed Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova meeting her father, in the first news on her since February 2023.