US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as head of the US Department of Homeland Security, a powerful post at the heart of the Republican's hard-line ...

The Philippines ordered evacuations ahead of Typhoon Usagi on Wednesday, as the UN disaster office sought $32.9 million in ...

US top diplomat Antony Blinken will meet with NATO and EU officials Wednesday to urgently discuss ramping up support for ...

The Japanese owner of 7-Eleven is considering going private by buying back its own shares in a bid to avoid a takeover attempt by Canadian rival Alimentation Couche-Tard, according to a report ...

Pete Hegseth, a Fox News co-host, author and US military veteran, has been nominated to lead the world's most powerful military as secretary of defense. The 44-year-old served as an infantry officer ...

The US airman who admitted to leaking a trove of classified Pentagon documents that revealed Washington apparently spied on allies and doubted Ukraine's military strength was jailed for 15 years on ...

Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia at the centre of a diplomatic storm, holds a presidential election on Wednesday at a tense moment in the Horn of Africa.

A stocks rally following Donald Trump's US election win lost steam Tuesday as traders looked to consolidate recent gains, sending major indices lower on both sides of the Atlantic.

Stock selling picked up Tuesday afternoon as bond yields continued to fly. The Dow was down 257 points, or 0.6%, at noon ET. The S&P 500 was down 0.3%. The Nasdaq Composite was down 0.2%. The yield on ...

The Tampa Bay Rays will not be able to return to their hurricane-damaged home ballpark until the start of the 2026 season and ...

Yemen's Huthi rebels targeted two US destroyers with drones and missiles as they transited the Bab al-Mandab Strait, but the warships defeated the attacks, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

US President Joe Biden's outgoing administration said Tuesday it still hoped to reach a Gaza ceasefire deal, even as key go-between Qatar suspended mediation.