Sunday’s World Cup final will highlight the transition at the pinnacle of soccer from Argentine veteran Lionel Messi to Spanish prodigy Lamine Yamal.

Japan's Parliament revised the Imperial House Law to cement male-only succession, blocking Princess Aiko from inheriting the throne despite public support.

A landslide Friday on the outskirts of the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing killed at least eight people and left 34 missing, burying residential buildings and forcing more than 1,100 people to evacuate,

Andy Burnham has pledged to run a Labour government without infighting and factional politics as he preps to become prime minister Monday.

Several hundred protesters marched Friday against the arrival in Venice of the billionaire American ambassador’s luxury yacht, briefly clashing with riot police as they neared the vessel.

China’s Moonshot AI unveiled a freely available artificial intelligence model that seemed to narrow the gap with cutting-edge offerings from U.S. tech companies.

A prominent Cuban dissident will go into exile in the US on Saturday after completing a five-year prison sentence in the communist-run Caribbean nation, according to his supporters and a US embassy official.

Oil prices rose Friday after Kuwait said Iran attacked a power and water desalination plant as fighting escalated in the Persian Gulf. Brent crude futures, the international benchmark, advanced about 2% to trade at $86.