The United Nations Population Fund is warning that the looming famine in war-torn Yemen could put 2 million mothers at risk of death.

Both sides get one last chance to make their cases in a trial alleging discrimination in Harvard University’s admissions system.

Campaigning in the neck-and-neck Ohio governor’s race is intensifying in the run-up to Tuesday’s election.

Cyprus’ president has called on Turkey to cooperate on exploiting the east Mediterranean’s potential oil and gas wealth, as long as the ethnically split island nation is reunified.

A former CIA contractor is hoping to avoid jail time when he is sentenced for unauthorized retention of classified materials.

Voters in New Caledonia, an archipelago in the south Pacific, are preparing to go to the polls on Sunday to decide on whether to break free from French rule. A look at what’s at stake in the independence referendum.

British police have launched a criminal investigation into allegations of anti-Semitic hate crimes within the opposition Labour Party.

Dutch prosecutors have failed to unravel the mystery of how a Croatian ex-general managed to smuggle a bottle of poison into a United Nations courtroom and take his own life seconds after an appeals judge confirmed his 20-year sentence for crimes during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

The young Malaysian tycoon wanted by the U.S. for his alleged role in ransacking a state investment fund says he’s innocent, and he’s been fighting back against the allegations while in hiding.

A self-styled preacher who wanted to claim his wife’s life insurance was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for persuading her to kill herself in what a judge described as an Australian-first conviction.