An American-Israeli woman arrested at a Moscow airport with nine and a half grams of marijuana has found herself at the center of a diplomatic standoff between Israel, Russia, and the United States.

Tariffs on $156bn of Chinese goods will be imposed if a trade deal is not finalised by December, Steve Mnuchin says.

Two women with ties to Islamist militants sentenced to at least 25 years for unsuccessful 2016 atttack

A major search and rescue operation is underway in Japan after deadly Typhoon Hagibis brought widespread flooding and landslides, destroying buildings and leaving dozens dead.

The Filipino president's spokesman has been criticised for dismissing commuters' concerns in Manila - one of the world's most gridlocked cities.

A couple in the US city of Pittsburgh found a surprise stash of hundreds of walnuts hidden under their car bonnet.

The Nobel Prize for Literature is set to be awarded on Thursday. Twice.

A gunman has killed two people in eastern Germany after attempting to enter a synagogue where dozens were observing a Jewish holiday.

One man's desire to create the perfect gun profoundly changed manufacturing.

Shakil Afridi was accused of running a fake vaccination scheme and says he never got a fair trial.

The US Supreme Court appears divided over whether a civil rights law barring workplace discrimination applies to gay and transgender workers.

The Antarctic icon could lose more than half its population by 2100, say scientists.

Up to 30 houses have been destroyed or seriously damaged in a bushfire in the Australian state of New South Wales.

Marvel is celebrating 80 years of making comics and its rise to one of Hollywood's biggest names.

Officials say Samuel Little's confessions to 93 murders across the US over 40 years are "credible".

The company said it "cannot say with certainty" how many of its users were affected.

From computer games to railway tracks, capturing 3D images in exquisite detail is now big business.

Jupiter had been the "moon king" for some 20 years.

It was the most powerful symbol of the poverty under which many lived in mid-2000s Cambodia: a vast rubbish dump on the outskirts of the capital.