Protesters rampaged through downtown Baltimore, Maryland, on Saturday, as the city's biggest demonstration thus far turned violent over the death of a young black man in police custody.
Ash from Chile's spewing Calbuco volcano threatened on Saturday to make travel miserable as it triggered the cancellation of domestic and international flights in several cities.
When nightfall descends upon Gaza, the glittering lights of the Level Up restaurant seem to be the only bright spot in this darkened city.
Saudi-led warplanes launched more deadly strikes in Yemen on Thursday despite a demand by Iran-backed Houthi rebels for a complete halt to the raids as a condition for UN-sponsored peace talks.
The US drone strike that accidentally killed two hostages in Pakistan exposes intelligence shortfalls that former and current US officials say appear to be growing more frequent as militants expand their safe havens and as Washington gathers less on-the-ground human intelligence.
Korean Lee Yong-Soo was forced into sexual slavery serving Japan's imperial army. Seventy years later, with Japan's prime minister preparing a historic address to the US Congress, she demands just one thing: an apology.
Indonesia has asked foreign embassies to send representatives to the maximum-security prison island of Nusakambangan ahead of the expected execution of 10 convicts, although an official 72-hour notice of execution has not been given yet, diplomats said on Friday.
Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan hosted leaders from the former Allied powers of World War I to pay tribute on Friday to the tens of thousands killed in the Battle of Gallipoli 100 years after one of the most wasteful yet emblematic campaigns of the conflict.
Extremely high levels of radiation have been discovered in a playground in Tokyo, officials said on Friday.
A tropical rain forest has regrown against all odds on the edge of the Philippine capital's biggest open-air dump, and is now a patch of green paradise in a sprawling metropolis blighted by giant slums.
There was a time when Khorn Savai avoided caterpillars, convinced they would make her ill. Now she actively seeks them out.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a meeting at the request of the Japanese on Wednesday afternoon on the sidelines of the Asian African Summit held in Jakarta.
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