Vice President Joe Biden is slated to speak Saturday at the funeral of former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn. The memorial service will take place in Glenn’s home state…

The rusting tracks of Brazil’s Transnordestina railway peter out and give way to a dirt trail in a remote corner of the country’s arid northeast, far from the ports or…

A 7.9-magnitude earthquake with a depth of 73 kilometers struck the New Ireland region of Papua New Guinea Saturday. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami threat for…

Russia, Pakistan and China will hold the next round of three-way counterterrorism talks in Moscow December 27, primarily focusing on turmoil-hit Afghanistan. Russian Ambassador to Islamabad Alexey Dedov disclosed the…

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump repeated his campaign promise to crush Islamic State “rapidly,” but did not give a blueprint for achieving such a victory during a rally in Orlando, Florida.…

An agreement was reached Saturday to resume the evacuation of Syria’s eastern Aleppo. The evacuation was suspended Friday because of demands from pro-government forces who wanted two villages — Foua…

Afghan officials say gunmen have shot dead six government workers, including five women in southern Kandahar province. The early morning attack occurred when unknown assailants ambushed and sprayed with bullets…

Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Blaszczak accused opposition parties Saturday of trying to seize power illegally, while lawmakers occupied parliament’s plenary hall for a second day in the country’s biggest political…

Struggling to feed herself and her seven children, Venezuelan mother Zulay Pulgar asked a neighbor in October to take over care of her 6-year-old daughter, a victim of a pummeling…

Possibly thinking a major U.S. aid package had been terminated, an enraged Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said “bye, bye” to America in retaliation Saturday and threatened to dissolve an agreement…

A car bomb has exploded next to a bus in central Turkey, killing at least 13 soldiers and wounding 55 other people; most of them soldiers. Six are in critical…

A chemical leak from an asphalt plant that led Corpus Christi officials to warn residents this week not to drink the water was reported a week earlier, according to an…

The Alice Ferguson Foundation is a 50-plus-year-old environmental nonprofit that aims to build connections between people and nature. Around the holidays, the organization designs special events to help kids celebrate…

Much of the U.S. is in the grip of temperatures that are well below 10 degrees celsius. But weather is one thing, and climate another, so scientists in San Francisco…

Eleven million patients worldwide travel to other nations for surgery because of the lack of affordable medical treatment in their home countries. The medical tourism industry is valued at $439…

U.S. President Barack Obama says he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in September about the alleged hacking of the Democratic Party, and that the hacking did not continue after…

U.S. President Barack Obama says he explicitly told Russian President Putin to stop cyberattacks and warned of consequences for the attack during the U.S. presidential campaign. VOA correspondent Aru Pande…