Avaneesh Pandey

Pope Francis began the last leg of his Africa tour Sunday, which many hope will bring a semblance of peace to the impoverished, strife-torn nation.

The IMF announcement, likely to be made Monday, would put further pressure on Beijing to carry out financial reforms and loosen its grip on the currency.

Ahead of the COP 21 conference, scheduled to begin Monday, activists want world leaders to do more to curb greenhouse gas emissions and limit warming.

For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed the rare event, which occurs when a star falls into a black hole’s gravitational well.

Although a rise in consumer spending helped offset the trade deficit, growth slowed to 0.5 percent in the quarter ending Sept. 30.

Despite Japan's unemployment rate dipping to a two-decade low, drops in consumer spending and incomes kept inflation way below its 2 percent target.

Adolescents are the only age group for which the mortality figures are not decreasing, according to a new report from Unicef.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the action was taken because Turkey has been reluctant to share information about its citizens involved in terrroist activity.

In a Thanksgiving address, U.S. President Barack Obama urged Americans to treat refugees with "compassion and care," likening their plight to that of the Pilgrims in 1620.

The world's largest particle accelerator was successful in colliding lead ions at 1,045 teraelectronvolts (TeV) -- twice as high as that achieved in any previous experiment. 

The Financial Conduct Authority said the bank failed to minimize the risk of financial crimes while arranging and executing a $2.8 billion deal.

Japan, one of the world’s top 10 emitters of greenhouse gases, has pledged to assist emerging economies to the tune of $10.6 billion a year by 2020.

During a rally in South Carolina Tuesday, the Republican front-runner flailed and jerked around his hands in an apparent imitation of the New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski.

The French president, who has called for an international anti-ISIS coalition, is likely to push for greater Russian cooperation in the fight against the militant group.

Interest rates have been held at 0.5 percent since March 2009, and most economists do not expect a rate hike before the second quarter of 2016.

The facility, being touted as the world's largest animal cloning factory, will commence operations in the Chinese coastal city of Tianjin in the first half of 2016.

If there is a significant upward revision in the GDP estimate, it would boost the case for a December rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The Republican frontrunner had shared on Twitter fabricated numbers about crime statistics in the U.S.

A U.S. court ruled that the government need not release details of targeted killings of citizens suspected of involvement in terrorist activities overseas.

The 41-year-old female rhino, Nola, who had been a popular attraction at the San Diego zoo since 1989, was euthanized Sunday.

According to a key gauge of business activity in France, released Monday, growth across the country’s private sector hit its lowest level in three months in November.

David Cameron met François Hollande in Paris Monday and said the two countries will increase counterterrorism cooperation and intelligence-sharing.

The Buenos Aires mayor, who campaigned on the promise of change, defeated Daniel Scioli in Argentina's presidential runoff elections Sunday.

On Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron will announce a 178 billion pound ($270 billion) investment in defense equipment and support over the next decade.

Scientists hope that colliding lead ions would help them recreate conditions that existed in the primordial universe and yield exotic particles like pions, kaons, antiprotons and antineutrons.

Astronomers have spotted a dwarf galaxy, named Triangulum II, that is seemingly filled to the brim with the elusive dark matter.

In defiance and in grief, Parisians are turning to Ernest Hemingway's colorful memoir of his time spent in Paris in the 1920s.

A leaked police memo warned of "imminent terrorist threats" from suicide bombers linked to ISIS and the Abu Sayyaf group ahead of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit.

Jonathan Pollard, now 61, was convicted of selling American intelligence secrets to Israel in 1987, and given a life sentence.