Nasa rang in the New Year yesterday with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind -- a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule -- in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape.

A Mexican governor and her senator husband are killed on Monday in a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla in central Mexico, the government said, just days after she had taken office following a bitterly contested election.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he was replacing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis two months earlier than had been expected, a move officials said was driven by Trump's anger at Mattis' resignation letter and its rebuke of his foreign policy.

US President Donald Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the US was "done" with Syria as the pair discussed the possible withdrawal of US forces from the country.

A United Nations team arrived in Yemen yesterday to monitor a fragile ceasefire in the rebel-held city of Hodeida, the latest push to

After President Donald Trump's stunning decision to withdraw from Syria and slash troop numbers in Afghanistan, Washington's allies

Journalists faced growing dangers of being targeted for killing for their work in 2018 even as the risks from war and conflict declined, a

A federal judge accused President Donald Trump's former national security chief Michael Flynn Tuesday of selling out the United States

Donald Trump said Saturday that his interior secretary will be leaving soon -- the latest in a series of high-profile departures from an

Donald Trump announced Friday that his budget director Mick Mulvaney will step in as acting chief of staff to replace John Kelly. Kelly

President Donald Trump played down hopes Friday for any imminent deal to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal.

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the US health care law known as Obamacare is unconstitutional -- a ruling that opposition

The United States and Canada on Friday promised a fair judicial process for a Chinese executive arrested in Vancouver on a US request,

The United States has dropped a bid to hold a UN Security Council meeting on North Korea's human rights record after failing to garner

The United States and Britain accused Russia on Friday of fabricating a story about chemical weapons use by Syrian rebels and warned

Former FBI director James Comey testified before US lawmakers for the first time in over a year Friday, with much of the discussions

An American neo-Nazi was found guilty of murder on Friday for killing a woman when ramming his car into counter-protesters at a 2017

Former US secretary of state Rex Tillerson said Donald Trump was "undisciplined" and repeatedly wanted to break the law -- leading

The daughter of Huawei's founder, a top executive at the Chinese technology giant, was arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States, roiling global stock markets as it threatened to inflame Sino-US trade tensions afresh.

Mexico's new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday he was sending a bill to Congress to eliminate presidential immunity, which the anti-establishment leftist says has fueled corruption.