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US hospitals facing 'increased and imminent cybercrime threat', FBI warns

The ransomware - Ryuk - scrambles data and demands money to decode it again.

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Landslides in Vietnam kill 8, leave 45 missing

A bulldozer clears out the road damaged by landslide to access a village swamped by another landslide in Quang Nam province, Vietnam on Thursday, October 29, 2020. /AP Two landslides in centra

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Trump: Sudan to be removed from state sponsors of terrorism list

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Prescott Regional Airport in Arizona, U.S., October 19, 2020. /Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday announced that an agr

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Dialogue opened between FARC former soldiers and victims' families

02:08 Colombia ended Latin America's longest running conflict with the FARC guerilla group back in 2016. While the fighting may be over, building ​true peace is proving more difficult.

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Two injured in knife attack near former Charlie Hebdo office in Paris

At least two people were injured on Friday following a knife attack close to the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in the French capital Paris, police said. /Getty Images

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Evacuees reflect on the Oregon wildfires

02:00 Crews along the U.S. West Coast are searching for victims from fast-spreading wild-fires.At least 24 people have died in the states of Oregon, Washington and California as dozens

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2 unknown militants gun down 7 civilians in W. Afghanistan

Two unknown militants riding a motorbike opened fire on civilians killing seven in the western Herat province on Friday, police spokesman in the province, Abdul Ahad Wa

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Missing children rescued in U.S. sex trafficking bust

Nearly 40 missing or endangered children were rescued by U.S. federal and state agents during a law enforcement bust in the state of Georgia, authorities said.On Thursday, the U.S. Marshals Service s

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PM Hassan Diab: Lebanon could 'lose control' of coronavirus outbreak

Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Wednesday the country was at risk of losing its control over the country's coronavirus outbreak after a spike in

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Northern Thailand provinces hit hard by floods

Flash floods caused by heavy rainfalls have wreaked havoc on low-lying areas in northern Thailand, government officials said on Tuesday.Villages, farmland, roads and brid

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Soil cliff collapse kills four in northwest China

Four people were killed Thursday morning after a soil cliff collapsed, destroying three houses in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, local authorities said. The incid

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At least 13 killed, 24 injured in bus crash in Mexico

At least 13 people were killed and 24 were injured on Tuesday after their passenger bus turned over just north of Mexico City, local authorities reported. The accident

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At least 34 people killed as 3 boats capsize in India's Bihar

A screenshot of a file photo posted India Today's official Twitter account, showing people alongside boats in Bihar's Khagaria. At least 34 people drowned after three boats capsized in the ea

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Xi conveys condolences to Lebanese president over huge explosions in Beirut

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent on Wednesday a message of condolence to his Lebanese counterpart, Michel Aoun, over the huge explosions in the Lebanese capital Beirut

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UN chief sends condolences to families of victims following explosions in Beirut

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday sent his condolences to the families of the victims following the horrific explosions in Beirut. "The secr

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Nine killed in warehouse collapse in northeast China

A total of nine people were found dead on Wednesday after a warehouse collapse in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, according to the local pu

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24 killed as fighting continues over jail control in Afghanistan's Jalalabad city

Up to 24 people including three attackers were killed as fighting for the control of Jalalabad prison in the eastern Nangarhar province has been continuing since Sunda