Russia's offensive in eastern Ukraine was gaining speed and seizing ground Wednesday as European leaders were to hold online talks with US President Donald Trump ahead of his Alaska summit ...

Typhoon Podul pounded Taiwan on Wednesday, shutting down businesses, grounding flights and knocking out power for tens of ...

Forget ice cream, sorbet or even the beloved Italian gelato -- when Romans swelter in a heatwave, they turn to the ...

Greece on Wednesday battled to contain more than 20 wildfires including one menacing its third-largest city Patras as a ...

A multi-million pound conservation programme in England helped save 150 struggling species but "time is running out" to halt ...

The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had approved the framework for a new offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Hamas ...

Nepal has waived climbing fees for 97 mountains, officials said on Wednesday, hoping to steer people to its lesser-known peaks and boost local economies.

Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9 ...

Australian scientists have discovered a razor-toothed whale that prowled the seas 26 million years ago, saying Wednesday the ...

Donald Trump styles himself as a strongman. And that's exactly what he sees in Vladimir Putin. Their complicated relationship ...

Scorching temperatures, such as those recorded in southern Europe, illustrate the intensifying heatwaves in Europe, which ...

South Korean prosecutors raided the headquarters of the former party of jailed ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday to ...