Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Saturday in Venezuela to demand the release of political prisoners and voice their discontent with the socialist administration of embattled President Nicolás Maduro.
Australia's main opposition party on Monday proposed to legalize same-sex marriage, making Labor leader Bill Shorten the first head of a major political force in the country to back a bill to overturn a national ban on such unions.
Thanks in large part to Sen. Rand Paul, at midnight on Sunday, the U.S. Senate let the Patriot Act expire, removing key controversial surveillance authorities from the National Security Agency. So what does that mean, and what's next?
On Wednesday's the U.S. Justice Department said that the 10 presidents of the South American Football Confederation were to receive bribes from a company called Datisa in exchange for transmission rights to games of the Copa America, the tournament of the continent's national teams.
On Wednesday Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that he had reached an agreement with Russia's top oil producer Rosneft in which $14 billion would be invested in Venezuela's oil and gas production.
Saturday’s Powerball is here. And since no one won the grand prize last Wednesday (when the winning numbers were: 8, 15, 34, 53, 59, and 29) all that money has once again rolled over and in now at $171 million, with a cash value of $107.1 million.
A French court on Wednesday handed a French bartender a four-month suspended jail sentence and a year-long suspension for serving a customer 56 shots, an amount of alcohol that led to the man's death last October.
Soccer officials elected Sepp Blatter to a fifth term as FIFA president despite the corruption scandal that has engulfed the international sports organization.
Russian model Valeria Lukyanova, better known as the self-proclaimed "Human Barbie," has some stiff competition from a new doll in town, Angelica Kenova.
Mount Shindake, a volcano located on the Japanese island of Kuchinoerabu island, has erupted. Black clouds of volcanic ash rose 5.6 miles into the sky, leading to the evacuation of most of the island’s 137 residents, that left by boat.
Federal police in Brazil have initiated investigations into possible FIFA corruption. The South American nation started investigating following the arrests of prominent FIFA leaders.
The Obama administration has taken another huge step in its effort to normalize relations with Cuba by removing the nation from the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list.
Going against popular conspiracy theory regarding the 1973 death of the left-leaning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, Spanish scientists say that they have found no conclusive evidence that the Nobel Prize prize winner was poisoned
As relations between the U.S. and Cuba continue to improve and normalize, the two countries are preparing to reopen their embassies after decades. The two nations plan to announce the reopening of embassies next week, following a series of talks in the last couple of months.
The left-wing rebel group in Colombia, known as FARC, announced one of their peace negotiators was among the 27 rebels who were killed last week in a military raid.
A new wasp species turns it's sting victims into zombies and devours them alive. It seems almost to unreal to be true, but according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund, a new species of wasps really do turn their victims into zombie-like creatures that remove their free will and then eat them alive with just one sting of their venom.
In preparation for an even larger drill in September, 12,000 Russian soldiers this week are conducting air-defense exercises in the Ural mountains and western Siberia. The war games, which began on Monday and are to last until Thursday, also involve 250 aircraft.
