UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has slammed the Taliban’s “broken” promises to Afghan women and girls, and urged the world to...

The Australian city of Sydney has emerged from lockdown after almost four months, with locals celebrating a range of new...

Pope Francis has launched what some describe as the most ambitious attempt at Catholic reform for 60 years. A two-year...

Most of the world’s nations have signed up to a historic deal to ensure big companies pay a fairer share...

Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov have won the Nobel Peace Prize for their “courageous fight” to defend freedom of...

A US judge has temporarily blocked a controversial new law in Texas that effectively bans women from having an abortion...

A former Facebook employee has told US lawmakers that the company’s sites and apps “harm children, stoke division and weaken...

Investor confidence in Facebook weakened a bit on Monday amid continued political pressure and a rare lengthy outage of the...

Some 216,000 children – mostly boys – have been sexually abused by clergy in the French Catholic Church since 1950,...

At least five civilians have been killed in an explosion outside the Eid Gah Mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul,...