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 ...

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 ...

Brazil is hosting the Group of 20 summit and it appears unlikely the industrialized and emerging-market nations in attendance will sign a meaningful declaration regarding geopolitics. The meeting in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Just a week after winning a majority of the vote in several of the nation’s largest Arab-majority cities, President-elect Donald Trump has filled top administration posts with staunch Israel ...

Australian senators have voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month. The censure of independent Sen. Lidia Thorpe on Mond ...

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 ...