The United States has made its case at the U.N. Security Council for why Russia should face further censure and isolation over the Ukraine invasion.

Russia is escalating its military and political campaign to take over Ukrainian territory.

Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters have killed at least nine people since the violence erupted over the weekend.

A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck Mexico, causing at least two deaths, damaging buildings and setting off landslides.

Wildlife experts have rescued 32 of 230 whales that were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of Australia's island state of Tasmania.

Relatives say two U.S. military veterans who were captured while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces are among 10 people released by Russian-backed separatists in a prisoner exchange.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a partial mobilization of reservists in Russia.

About 230 whales are stranded on Tasmania's west coast, just two days after 14 sperm whales were found beached on a nearby island.

A tropical storm that dumped heavy rain as it cut across Japan moved into the Pacific after killing two people and leaving thousands of homes without power.

Australian wildlife authorities are investigating the deaths of 14 young sperm whales that were found beached on an island off of the southeastern coast.

Iran's president headed on Monday to New York, where he will be speaking to the U.N. General Assembly later this week, saying that he has no plans to meet with President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the U.N. event.

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake has shaken Mexico's central Pacific coast, killing at least one person and setting off an earthquake alarm in the capital.

Investigators searching through a mass burial site in Ukraine have found evidence that some of the dead were tortured, including bodies with broken limbs and ropes around their necks.

Flash floods triggered by heavy rain have swept through towns in hilly central Italy. Italy's leader said 10 people were dead in the floods and four were missing.

Pakistani officials say weeks of floodwaters are now receding in the worst-hit southern Sindh province after a deadly summer in which monsoons left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

A surging tide of people has lined up to file past Queen Elizabeth II's coffin as it lies in state at Parliament.

A Palestinian farmer in the Gaza Strip has discovered a rare Byzantine-era mosaic on his property.

Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Chinese leader Xi Jinping for his 'balanced' approach to the Ukrainian crisis and blasted Washington's 'ugly' policies at a meeting that followed a major setback for Moscow in the war.

Thousands of mourners waited for hours Thursday in a line that stretched for almost 5 miles (8 kilometers) across London for the chance to spend a few minutes filing past Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a rare foray outside Ukraine's capital and highlighted Moscow's embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

The head of the World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus deaths last week was the lowest reported number in the pandemic since March 2020.

Queen Elizabeth II has left Buckingham Palace for the last time, her casket borne to Westminster Hall by a horse-drawn gun carriage.

South Korea has warned North Korea's government that using its nuclear weapons would put it on a 'path of self-destruction.'

The United Nations says weather disasters costing $200 million a day and irreversible climate catastrophe looming show the world is 'heading in the wrong direction.'

Ukrainian troops are piling pressure on retreating Russian forces, pressing a counteroffensive that has produced major gains and a stunning blow to Moscow’s military prestige.