World

David Malpass, undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, was selected as president of the World Bank Group for a five-year term beginning on April 9, 2019, the…

A study posted on the website of the Northwestern University (NU) on Friday found that poverty leaves a mark on nearly 10 percent of the genes in human genome. In…

The first jaguar born through artificial insemination was eaten by its mother after two days, reports The New York Post. The healthy and vigorous female cub was born in Brazil…

Taking drastic action over illegal immigration, U.S. President Donald Trump moved Saturday to cut direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, whose citizens are fleeing north and overwhelming U.S.…

The U.K. may be forced to create a national unity government to end the impasse over Britain leaving the European Union, as Prime Minister Theresa May clings to the Brexit…

Tens of thousands of French "yellow vest" demonstrators on Saturday staged their 20th week of anti-government protests despite hotspot bans and a plea from bank chiefs to end damage to…

Police in Mexico say they caught a man who stole a front-end loader, drove it to a local bank, knocked down a wall, chained a safe to the machine and…

Voting for the presidential election in Ukraine kicked off on Sunday with a record number of 39 candidates competing for the presidency. Some 29,900 polling stations were arranged across the…

Both supporters and opponents of the Venezuelan government took to the streets on Saturday amid an ongoing political and economic crisis aggravated by successive blackouts. Backers of the ruling socialist…

First organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in 2007, Earth Hour is now the world's largest grassroots movement for saving the environment, with this year's focus on…