A long-awaited convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid has crossed into southern Gaza for the first time since Israel began a devastating siege 12 days ago, as Israel's military pounded northern Gaza and warned it would increase its attacks.
Health officials in Gaza say an Israeli air strike has killed hundreds of Palestinians at Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital, crammed with patients and displaced people.
A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck western Afghanistan, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in the same region.
Israel has battered Gaza a day after suffering its bloodiest attack in decades when Hamas fighters rampaged through Israeli towns, killing hundreds and abducting an unknown number of others, threatening a major new war in the Middle East.
British-Irish actor Michael Gambon, best known to global audiences for playing the wise professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movie franchise and whose career was launched by his mentor Laurence Olivier,...
Scottish-born actor David McCallum, a household name in the 1960s thanks to his starring role in television series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., has died aged 90.
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has announced he will be stepping down as the leader of both Fox News' parent company and his News Corp media holdings with his son, Lachlan, set to take his place.
The disappearance of China's defence minister, the latest in a string of upheavals in the country's top ranks, is stoking uncertainty about President Xi Jinping's rule as an internal security clampdown trumps international engagement.
Luis Rubiales has been provisionally suspended by FIFA following the Spanish Football Federation president's conduct at the women's World Cup final in Sydney.
The mugshot of Donald Trump with a red tie, glistening hair and an icy scowl is being used by the former US president and his detractors on merchandise.
Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is listed as a passenger on a private jet which has crashed north of Moscow with no survivors, raising fears among his allies that he has been killed.
The Pope has reaffirmed the Catholic Church is open to the gay community but with the caveat that "there are laws that regulate life inside the church".
Human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on earth, with more than two billion people feeling climate change-boosted warmth daily, according to a study from a US-based science group.
