Some 45,000 homes across Sydney's eastern suburbs have been hit by power outages amid a heatwave in the coastal city in southeastern Australia, with media reports of residents being trapped in lifts and one hospital losing

Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of smartphones and memory chips, has warned of weaker earnings this year as it announced a slump in profits for the last quarter of 2018, blaming declining demand

European leaders have moved to head off British Prime Minister Theresa May's attempts to renegotiate the Brexit withdrawal deal. Having rejected the exit deal May struck with the European Union, the British parliament on

Two men allegedly attacked African American actor Jussie Smollett in Chicago, Illinois, placing a noose around his neck and yelling homophobic and racist slurs. Smollett, 36, was attacked at around 2:00am on Tuesday, according

DUBAI: Scientist or terrorist? The choice might seem extreme, but young Arabs are being urged to get involved in fields such as science and technology as part of a push to empower youth in the

DUBAI: Scientist or terrorist? The choice might seem extreme, but young Arabs are being urged to get involved in fields such as science and technology as part of a push to empower youth in the

BERLIN: German authorities arrested three Iraqi refugees on Wednesday on allegations they were planning an extremist bombing attack, and searched properties in three states in connection with their investigation. Federal prosecutors said Shahin F. and

The office of US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has said self-proclaimed hackers in Russia stole evidence in a bid to discredit its probe of a firm charged with funding a Russian propaganda campaign to

Yangon, Myanmar - U Zaw Moe stands in a windowless white-walled prison cell on the outskirts of Yangon. "This is similar to the one I was in," he says, scoping the rectangular room, pointing

Caracas, Venezuela - Doctors, businessmen and other workers protested in major cities across Venezuela on Wednesday, calling for humanitarian aid to be allowed into the country and for President Nicolas Maduro to step down.