The European Union slapped a record 2.42 billion-euro ($2.72 billion) fine on internet giant Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own online shopping business.
A Syrian minister has dismissed a White House statement alleging that President Bashar Assadβs government is preparing a new chemical weapons attack, saying Damascus has not and will not use such arms.
The Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration mostly enforce its 90-day ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries, overturning lower court orders that blocked it.
An overturned oil tanker burst into flames in Pakistan on Sunday, killing 153 people who had rushed to the scene of the highway accident to gather leaking fuel, a hospital official said as the death toll continued to rise.
Travis Kalanick, the combative and embattled CEO of ride-hailing giant Uber, has resigned under pressure from investors at a pivotal time for the company.
President Donald Trumpβs son-in-law and chief Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner, arrived in Israel Wednesday for a daylong visit aimed at restarting long-dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Prince Philip has been admitted to a hospital for treatment of an infection and will not be able to attend the queenβs speech, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday.
In a hidden room in a house near Argentinaβs capital, police believe they have found the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the countryβs history, including a bust relief of Adolf Hitler and magnifying glasses inside elegant boxes with swastikas.
Belgian authorities said they foiled a βterror attackβ Tuesday when soldiers shot and killed a suspect after a small explosion at a busy Brussels train station that continued a week of attacks in the capitals of Europe.
Google is promising to be more vigilant about preventing terrorist propaganda and other extremist videos from appearing on its YouTube site amid intensifying criticism about the internetβs role in mass violence.
A man rammed his car into a police vehicle in Parisβ Champs-Elysees shopping district Monday, prompting a fiery explosion, and was likely killed in the incident, authorities said.
London police said Monday that 79 people were now believed to have died in the high-rise apartment building fire.
London police, already stretched by a series of major incidents around the capital, are putting more officers on the street to reassure the public after a driver plowed into a crowd of people leaving a mosque early Monday. One man died at the scene and 10 people were injured.
Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 62 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road, in what the prime minister on Sunday called βthe biggest tragedyβ the country has experienced in years.
The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors who went missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off the Japanese coast was called off after several bodies were found Sunday in the shipβs flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters.
London police say 58 people who were in Grenfell Tower are still missing and assumed to be dead.
Stopping short of a complete turnabout, President Donald Trump is expected to announce a revised Cuba policy aimed at stopping the flow of U.S. cash to the countryβs military and security services while maintaining diplomatic relations and allowing U.S. airlines and cruise ships to continue service to the island.
The Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American forces to Afghanistan, a Trump administration official said Thursday, hoping to break a stalemate in a war that has now passed to a third U.S. commander in chief. The deployment will be the largest of American manpower under Donald Trumpβs young presidency.
Russia claimed Friday it killed the leader of the Islamic State group in an airstrike targeting a meeting of IS leaders just outside the groupβs de facto capital in Syria.
London firefighters traumatized by the devastation they witnessed in a high-rise apartment blaze that killed at least 17 people worked Thursday to make the building safe so they could continue the search for more victims.
