Portuguese authorities say around 500 firefighters are combating a wildfire that started in a central area some 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Lisbon, the capital.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has seized an oil tanker carrying 700,000 liters of 'smuggled fuel' in the Persian Gulf, Iranian media reported Sunday.

The U.N. food agency and Yemen’s Houthi rebels say they have reached an agreement to resume food deliveries to rebel-controlled parts of Yemen after suspending the aid in June.

The wife of Syria’s president says that a year after being diagnosed with breast cancer she is now 'completely' free of the disease.

A Syrian pro-government newspaper is reporting 26 soldiers, including seven officers, have been killed in an explosion blamed on a technical error in central Syria.

The Latest on a deadly mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio (all times local):

A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire in an El Paso shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school season, leaving 20 dead and more than two dozen injured, police said.

Nine people in Ohio have been killed in the second mass shooting in the U.S. in less than 24 hours, and the suspected shooter is also deceased, police said.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a French inventor flying over the English Channel on his hoverboard.

Single women and lesbians in France won’t have to go abroad to have babies anymore under a proposed new law that would give them access to medically assisted reproduction for the first time.