Simon Harris has become the youngest-ever prime minister of Ireland, officially taking office in Dublin on Tuesday after Leo Varadkar suddenly stepped down last month. Harris, 37, ran unopposed to replace Varadkar as leader of the ruling Fine Gael party, and the final formalities of his rise to power were…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping held rare talks on Wednesday with a former president of Taiwan who supports closer ties…
A ferocious debate that has raged across social media, legal chambers, police stations and Scottish politics also played out…
The total solar eclipse has come and gone after creating a celestial spectacle Monday in the skies over Mexico,…
Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, will begin rationing water this week as several of its reservoirs face unprecedented lows amid a…
Walid Daqqa, one of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners in Israel, died of cancer on Sunday at the age of…
Now that Monday’s celestial spectacle has come and gone, millions of people across North America may find their protective…
A labrador retriever who failed to become a drug sniffing dog because he was overly friendly and playful has won…
Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a…