Iran has fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them.

The Iran war’s most tangible and immediate effect for many people outside the Middle East has been spiking gasoline prices.

The president of Cyprus says fellow European Union leaders meeting on the island nation need to start preparing a playbook on what should happen if an EU country under attack puts out the call to bloc partners for help.

Museums and other cultural institutions across the globe have added barrier-free tours and guides to their repertoire.

Two friends have claimed a bizarre record by driving a decades-old British three-wheel car about 14,000 miles from the U.K. to the southern tip of Africa for the longest trip by a three-wheel vehicle.

Ukraine has completed repairs on a damaged oil pipeline and is preparing to resume flows.

The gunman who opened fire on tourists at Mexico’s iconic Teotihuacan pyramids carried materials that were apparently related to the deadly 1999 shooting at Columbine High School.

Authorities say an Israeli army reservist has shot and killed two Palestinians near a school in a village east of Ramallah.

Europe's top diplomats are meeting in Luxembourg to address multiple crises, including the ongoing war in Ukraine and economic instability due to the conflict in Iran.

Rachel Goldberg-Polin has written a book about her son, Hersh, who was kidnapped during Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack and killed in a Gaza tunnel.

U.S. forces have boarded an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia.

Taiwan’s president has postponed a planned visit to Africa after three countries withdrew permission for his flight over their territories.

South Korean police are seeking to arrest music mogul Bang Si-Hyuk, chairman of the agency behind K-pop supergroup BTS, as they expand an investment fraud investigation.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he survived a vote on his leadership among his own party’s lawmakers, after recent slumps in the polls prompted speculation he might be ousted.

Mexico's government says a Canadian tourist has been killed and 13 other people injured when a man with a gun opened fire at the Teotihuacan pyramids.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she was unaware of any collaboration between the U.S. and local authorities in Chihuahua after four officials died in an accident over the weekend.

A high-profile paramilitary commander in Sudan has switched sides and joined the country’s army as the war enters a fourth year.

There is a case to be made that Pope Leo XIV found his voice on his epic and ongoing trip through Africa.

A refund system for businesses that paid tariffs which the U.S. Supreme Court eventually struck down has launched.

Pope Leo XIV has traveled to pray at a popular Catholic shrine in Angola that was an epicenter of the African slave trade.

Senior Cabinet ministers are rallying around U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose leadership is under threat.

The U.S. says it has attacked and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz that tried to get around its blockade of Iranian ports.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around its naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz.

A humanoid robot has won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing, running faster than the human record.