Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unleashed top surrogates, including campaigner-in-chief President Barack Obama, to bolster her case in the election's homestretch, as Republican rival Donald Trump deployed wife Melania to soften his image in crucial battleground states.
Beyonce on Wednesday seized the spotlight at the Country Music Association Awards by cheerily performing a fusion song, in a powerful if unstated message on United States race relations.
Stay and endure a life of privation and oppression or escape and risk being sold into sexual slavery: this is the stark choice facing many women in DPRK, best-selling author and activist Hyeonseo Lee warns.
Hopes are fading for 44 people still missing more than a day after an overcrowded speedboat carrying Indonesian migrant workers capsized and sunk in rough seas, claiming at least 18 lives.
The most popular object in Gogjali on Wednesday (Nov 2) was the electric hair clipper a member of the Iraqi special forces who retook the village from militants gave the residents.
Mrs Hillary Clinton and Mr Donald Trump sprinted from swing state to swing state in a fight for the last few unclaimed votes on Wednesday (Nov 2), six days out from an election that has set the world on edge.
A Pakistani court refused bail Wednesday (Nov 2) to an Afghan woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover after she was arrested in Pakistan and accused of being one of thousands of refugees using fake ID cards.
A Japanese teeny-bop girl band has triggered outrage after wearing military-style costumes which have been compared to Nazi uniforms at a Halloween concert.
Italy's most powerful earthquake in 36 years has left more than 15,000 people homeless, authorities said on Monday as the scale of the damage done to irreplacable historic buildings became apparent.
A pro-Russia candidate came out top in Moldova's presidential election, according to incomplete results issued early Monday which left it unclear whether he could beat his pro-EU rival in the first round.
Mrs Hillary Clinton battled to contain renewed FBI focus on her e-mails on Sunday (Oct 30) as Mr Donald Trump blitzed western states in the tightening race for the White House.
Italy's most powerful earthquake in 36 years struck the country's mountainous centre Sunday, panicking shell-shocked residents for the third time in two months and flattening a world famous 600-year-old basilica.
The world's largest marine reserve aimed at protecting the pristine wilderness of Antarctica will be created after a "momentous" agreement was finally reached Friday, with Russia dropping its long-held opposition.
Russia denied any involvement in deadly air strikes on a Syrian school and rejected a UN-led investigation showing its ally Damascus had carried out chemical attacks, as Moscow's relations with the West took another hit.
Exiled Turkish journalist Can Dundar, Crimean Tatar activist Mustafa Dzhemilev and two Yazidi victims of the Islamic State group have been shortlisted for the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize to be announced Thursday.
India will expel a Pakistani visa official for "espionage activities", the foreign ministry said on Thursday (Oct 27), with tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours already running high.
Donald Trump pledged to pour millions of his own dollars into his presidential bid, in defiance of the seemingly unstoppable momentum building behind Hillary Clinton.
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