World News

To deal with variable solar and wind power, the startup Energy Vault is coming out of stealth mode to offer alternatives to lithium-ion batteries.

Collins had been under scrutiny for his connection to the biotech company, Innate Immunotherapeutics.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) urged Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to give legislation limiting President Trump’s ability to fire...

Tensions escalated on Wednesday at the Trump International Hotel in Panama as the government dispatched police in riot gear to the luxury property.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Grim footage shows a man stooping down in the street to eat a mouthful of horse excrement as Eagles fans cheered him on in...

“It’s good to have a fresh set of eyes to root out any stray accuracies that might have crept in,” Sanders said.

Science knows no geographical boundaries and is beholden to no political agenda. Unfortunately, the Russian government has opted to politicize the...

Crammed into buses and mini-vans, more than 10,000 Pakistanis traveled to a mosque on the outskirts of the small Punjabi town of Rabwah, for the sole purpose...

Donald Trump's onetime campaign chairman played an instrumental role in helping a pro-Kremlin party take power.

North Korea’s nuclear weapons program has led to increased sanctions and isolation. But these factors haven’t stopped the country from starting significant...

The ANC has lost the moral high ground that it used to have after the fall of the apartheid regime.

How to tip us off about a story, confidentially.

LGBT advocates are calling the deal "HB 2.0.".

European court of human rights rules in favour of Bangladeshi migrants over 2013 attack and orders Greece to pay damages.

A look at key numbers in the C.B.O. report.

Untangling the conflicting portraits of undocumented immigrants.

While Norway was ranked the best democracy in the world for the sixth year running, the U.S. was downgraded to a "flawed democracy.".

A former Federal Reserve employee was sentenced to 12 months’ probation and issued a $5,000 fine for installing unauthorized bitcoin software on a Fed...

From Cake to Paedogeddon, Chris Morris’s epochal satire always said the unsayable. No other comedy has touched it – or even come close.

United, which used to offer international passengers in first and business classes a selection of newspapers midflight, has canceled its subscriptions.

2016 is virtually certain to be the hottest year on record.

Thailand's crown prince is to be confirmed the new king on 1 December, the BBC understands.

India’s supreme court may declare unconstitutional a practice that allows men to end marriages with the triple utterance of the word talaq.

The Pakistani Parliament passed legislation to increase sentences for the crimes and to end a loophole that had allowed those who commit such killings to go...

“The mic was very bad, but maybe it was good enough to hear breathing.”.

FBI Director James Comey is defending the bureau's Friday afternoon release of documents from the Hillary Clinton email investigation, saying "we don't play...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is expressing regret after his obscenity-laden rant against President Barack Obama prompted the White House to cancel...

A Chinese official confronted U.S. President Barack Obama's national security adviser on the tarmac on Saturday prompting the Secret Service to intervene, an...

OPINION | Trump has been on offense while Clinton vacations.

Usain Bolt does the triple treble as Jamaica win the men’s 4x100m relay.

Members of the United States Olympic and Paralympic teams shed some clothing — whatever they thought was appropriate — to let you try to guess their sport.

15 years ago, Chris Morris’s brutal satire 'Brass Eye' took on 24-hour news-media hysteria by way of a special about pedophilia.

How cultural and religious conservatism turn online harassment against women into real-world violence.

US politicians often cite Australia as providing a model of impactful reform. Here’s why such blueprints likely won’t work to combat gun violence in the US.

The Economist offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them.

The boxer, who died Friday, was the most fantastical American of his era, a character of physical wit, political defiance, and sheer originality.

The latest report contradicted a finding that meat found in the man’s home was from a goat and not from a cow — the holy Hindu symbol he was accused of eating.

We're really lucky to be alive today, and not 200 years ago.

A third version of the law is now being drafted by the social welfare department at the instance of Law Minister T B Jayachandra.

Enes Kanter has started a halal food craze that has absorbed the Thunder’s locker room after road games—and stocked it with lamb platters and chicken kebabs.

How to distinguish good jazz from bad.

When the Cascadia fault line ruptures, it could be North America’s worst natural disaster in recorded history.

A nocturnal "cat burglar" with a taste for socks and men's underwear is causing a one-feline crime wave in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Low energy prices ought to be a shot in the arm for the economy. Think again.

The TV host closed the door on the idea after a speculative interview.

Nola was euthanized after her health deteriorated because of an infection, leaving just three known northern white rhinos, which live under armed guard in...

New Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, applauded for his recently sworn in gender-equal cabinet, has responded to the Queensland Premier Annastacia...

San Francisco has started painting its walls with "pee-repellent" paint in an effort to fight its public urination problem.

Six years after the Heene family became forever linked with "Balloon Boy," they're living a freewheeling, rocking life in Spring Hill, Florida.

“Facebook has more power in determining who can speak and who can be heard around the globe than any Supreme Court justice, any king or any president.” Those...