U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged China to disclose the details of people killed, detained or missing during the Chinese military's crackdown on...
Liu Xia, widow of dissident Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, has said she felt that loving her husband was a "crime" for which she had received a "life sentence,"...
Lebanese-Palestinian gender rights activist Lina Abirafeh’s name features alongside the likes of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Nobel Peace Prize...
“Are you on the road or in the ditch?”
Colombia headed for its most divisive presidential race in decades after right-winger Ivan Duque won Sunday’s first-round vote, triggering a runoff with...
Hundreds marched through Hong Kong Sunday ahead of the 29th anniversary of China’s crackdown on democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
President Donald Trump says "everybody plays games" as he's suggesting the summit with North Korea that he suddenly called off might get back on track,...
Grand man of American letters Philip Roth, a fierce and prolific talent who achieved fame with the sexually explicit "Portnoy's Complaint" in 1969, has died...
Finnish materials physicist Tuomo Suntola, who developed a groundbreaking technology to reduce the size of complex devices, Tuesday won Finland's take on the...
Messing with the natural rhythm of one’s internal clock may boost the risk of developing mood problems ranging from garden-variety loneliness to severe...
More than two dozen writers, poets and artists on Wednesday called for the release of Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Liu Xiaobo, who has been...
Many experts have proclaimed the death of the post-1945 liberal international order, including the human rights regime set forth in the 1948 Universal...
Three Korean-Americans who were detained in North Korea for more than a year were greeted by President Donald Trump beneath a giant American flag after they...
Spanish film royalty, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, walked the red carpet to open the Cannes Film Festival Tuesday with their film "Everybody Knows,"...
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet Monday he would announce his decision on whether to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal at 2 p.m. Washington time...
The Swedish Academy which decides the Nobel Prize for Literature said on Friday it would not make the award this year because of a sexual misconduct scandal...
The Swedish Academy that decides the Nobel Prize for Literature said Friday it would not make the award this year because of a sexual misconduct scandal that...
As an advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons, I don’t have the luxury of mincing words.
The lawyer of the man reportedly at the center of a sex-abuse scandal that has tarnished the reputation of the body that hands out the Nobel Prize in...
By Michelle Nichols Myanmar's military has assured the United Nations of "harsh" action against perpetrators of sexual violence, state media reported on...