Scott Neuman

Pyongyang will skip the games, shattering South Korea's hopes that the games might revive stalled peace talks between the bitter rivals.

Category 2 Cyclone Seroja raked the area as the storm tracked on a course for Western Australia, dumping heavy rain on the islands and triggering mudslides that buried homes and people.

The express passenger train partially derailed inside a mountain tunnel on Friday after reportedly hitting a truck that had slid from a hillside onto the track.

The remarks by Myanmar special envoy Christine Schraner Burgener during a closed-door session of the U.N. Security Council come as new fighting rages between the army and ethnic insurgents.

The convictions come amid a crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong and just days after Chinese officials approved a major overhaul of the territory's electoral system that tightens Beijing's control.

The memory unit from the cockpit voice recorder belonging to the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 that crashed into the Java Sea has been recovered, investigators say. All 62 people aboard were killed.

For the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1937, fewer than half of U.S. adults interviewed said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque. That figure is down from 70% in 2000.

Given a lack of international coordination that has beset the current coronavirus pandemic, whether such a treaty could be reached or adhered to is an open question.

Days of fighting in the northern port city of Palma have left dozens of civilians dead as security forces battled to turn back an assault by a suspected ISIS-linked insurgent group.

The Ever Given had been wedged at an angle across the Suez Canal since Tuesday, preventing other shipping vessels from traveling through the waterway.

With one of the world's largest container ships solidly lodged in the Suez Canal, blocking billions of dollars' worth of commerce each day, NPR takes a look at the worldwide implications.

The CEO of the Dutch company Boskalis, which is working to dislodge the 1,300-foot-long ship, compared the vessel to "an enormous beached whale."

Torrential rain has inundated parts of Australia, forcing evacuations and sending waterfalls down the side of the country's majestic — and normally arid — Uluru rocks.

Traffic through one of the world's busiest waterways was stalled after the Ever Given ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal.

Nearly a dozen bodies have been recovered from the massive blaze in southern Bangladesh that also left tens of thousands of people homeless, officials said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection released photos and video of Texas immigrant processing centers that have faced fresh criticism for overcrowding and poor conditions.

The German chancellor announces an intensified coronavirus lockdown going into Easter, warning that new mutations raise the specter of a potentially deadly "third wave" of COVID-19.

The fire at a camp in Cox's Bazar spread rapidly, engulfing tents and poorly constructed homes and buildings, according to witnesses.

Manila says 220 fishing vessels believed to be manned by China's maritime militia were observed anchored side by side at the disputed Whitsun Reef earlier this month.

The previously scheduled visit was to have included a celebration of the recently passed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, but Tuesday's deadly shootings at area spas caused a change in plans.