The Taliban authorities that rule Afghanistan have imposed a severe interpretation of Islamic law on the population, heavily ...

The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) Board of Directors welcomed two new members during a swearing-in ceremony on ...

Terri Piazza, executive director for employee benefits with the privacy and identity theft legal services firm PPLSI, has been named Ambassador of the Year for 2024 by the Livermore Valley ...

Recruited at the age of eight by a drugs gang, Rhys was part of Britain's violent knife crime "crisis" until his best friend ...

Afghan taekwondo star Marzieh Hamidi told AFP the death threats she has received, forcing her to live under French police ...

The Bank of Japan hiked interest rates on Friday to their highest level in 17 years and signalled more were in the pipeline ...

Manchester City have no time to lick their wounds after another bruising Champions League defeat as Chelsea prepare to visit ...

Scheicho Scheifa is haunted by the fear of going blind. A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that one has already turned opaque.

On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she was a teenager much like them when she was first ...

Helicopter pilot Tim Thomas has fought dozens of wildfires all over the world, but nothing prepared him for the scale and the challenge of the devastating blazes that ripped through ...

The Pleasanton Art League’s 16th annual showcase of works by member artists, Imagination Expressed 2025, will open Thursday, Jan. 23, at the Museum on Main in Pleasanton.

Flying through Bangkok's cloudless blue skies, a small aircraft sprays a white mist over a thick haze of pea soup smog below.