Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president has sworn in a 21-member Cabinet after his party secured a two-thirds parliamentary majority in last week’s election. The margin of victory will allow ...

As leaders and negotiators grapple with big questions of money and power, youth COP attendees and activists from around the world grapple with their own questions about how much their voices matter.

An Australian woman accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on Monday nearly two years after her arrest, saying she is innocent and that she was tricked into ...

Typhoon Man-yi has left at least three villagers missing, destroyed houses, knocked out power in entire towns and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern Philippines ...

United Nations talks on getting money to curb and adapt to climate change resume Monday with fresh hope that negotiators and ministers can work through disagreements and hammer out a deal after slow ...

Shares started out the week mixed in Asia after U.S. stocks fell to their worst loss since Election Day. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index dropped 1% to 38,255.65 as the yen regained some strength against the ...

Authorities in India’s capital shut schools, halted construction and banned non-essential trucks from entering the city on Monday after air pollution shot up to its worst level this season. Residents ...

A special tribunal in Bangladesh will hear updates from police on Monday about what the country’s security agencies have done to arrest ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her close aides ...

Dozens of prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in the largest case under a national security law that critics say crushed political activism in the ...

Yu Miao smiles as he stands among the 10,000 books crowded on rows of bamboo shelves in his newly reopened bookstore. It’s in Washington’s vibrant Dupont Circle neighborhood, far from its last ...

Beyoncé is coming to your home on Christmas — provided you have Netflix and are tuning in to the Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans game. Netflix announced late Sunday that the megastar would perform ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is hearing arguments that could determine whether the swing state’s top elections official, who has been the target of disproven Republican election conspiracy theories, ...