At least eight people are dead and 38 others are trapped underground after a gas explosion in a coal mine in northeast China’s Shanxi province on Friday night, according to state media.

Cruelty has become commonplace in the West Bank, where extremist Israeli settlers beat and shoot Palestinians, steal their sheep, uproot their olive groves and torch cars and home

The appeal marked the first significant update since the former British prince was arrested in February over allegations of misconduct while in office.

The United States on Friday temporarily banned the entry of lawful permanent residents ​who have been in the Democratic Republic of ‌Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in the previous 21 days, citing concerns over Ebola.

Canada is working. We're renovating the country as we go, and Alberta being at the center of that is essential,” said Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to reconsider a decision that put the government a step closer to deporting him,

TV actor Stewart McLean has been missing for one week, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have turned the missing person’s case into a homicide investigation. On May 18, the Squamish RCMP received a missing person report after McLean had not been seen since May 15.

Activists on board a humanitarian flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces on their way to Gaza say they were subjected to beatings, torture and sexual violence while in detention.