Time was running out to find survivors, as rescuers continued to work in the Kumamoto area on Japan 's southern main island of Kyushu, where the magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Tuesday.

Russia launched ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv and other cities in Ukraine in the early hours Thursday, hours after warning of an attack.

More than 250,000 people across the two countries have been forced to evacuate, and the European Commission has said that Europe’s firefighting capacity is struggling to keep pace with what is proving to be an intense wildfire year.

The Fed's "family fight" returns U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to give Iran a "beating," and investors actually gave one to Meta.

Scientists say climate change is heating the Mediterranean Sea, inviting invasive fish species that harm native populations. This threatens coastal communities that rely on traditional fishing.

Officials say the death toll from a militant attack on a police post in northwestern Pakistan has risen to 11. Security forces killed 15 militants in an hourlong gunbattle after they targeted

Since former Macao pro-democracy lawmaker Au Kam San was arrested under a national security law in July 2025, little about his case has been made known.

Flight attendants at Canada's WestJet Airlines on Thursday gave 72 ​hours' notice that they would ‌strike during the busy summer travel season, if a last-minute ​deal is not reached ​with the country's second-largest carrier.