The launch, using a dummy warhead, took place the same day Australia and Fiji signed a mutual defense treaty meant to counter Chinese influence in the Pacific.

A Chinese court has sentenced a former executive of a government management committee to death for taking bribes worth more than $323.7 million.

The decision to reverse a one-game ban landed badly in Europe, at a moment of already-heightened geopolitical tension with the United States.

Residents of a Kyiv apartment building hit a second time by a Russian strike greeted emergency responders with dark humor, volunteer Kateryna Tereshkova said.

Prince Harry's longtime battle with the British tabloids is reaching its climax. A London judge will rule Tuesday in his privacy invasion lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail. The case

The Hamas militant group said Monday it had dissolved its government in Gaza and is preparing to transfer power to a technical committee backed by the United Nations as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal.

Cuba is dealing with another national blackout Monday, its third since the beginning of the year, the country's state energy company said.

Clashes broke out inside a prison in the outskirts of Sri Lanka’s capital, killing at least 25 people, most of them inmates, and injuring over 100, officials.