Many townships in South Africa are notorious for gang-related violence, but in Mpophomeni near the southeastern town of Howick, pet dogs are helping lead the way to a more peaceful future ...

Former United States President Barack Obama says it's difficult to defend the country's decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement, during a speech in Chicago.

Hundreds of thousands of people on the US Gulf Coast were urged to flee the path of Hurricane Harvey as Texas and Louisiana braced for "catastrophic" flooding from the powerful category two ...

Protesters rally in New York after President Donald Trump announced America's shock withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.

The Syrian regime on Sunday regained total control of the central city of Homs with the evacuation of rebels from the last area they had controlled. An AFP correspondent said the evacuees le ...

Venezuela, mired in a political and economic crisis for months, has been rocked by violence over the past three weeks which has claimed 20 lives.

Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan's face goes flat when she recalls her childhood in rural Vietnam: she had just enough food to eat, rarely got new clothes and lived on a plot of land where her parents ...

US President Barack Obama calls on congressional Democrats to "fight" to preserve his signature health care reform, with its future in doubt as Donald Trump's incoming administration vowed a ...