Applause rang out as rescuers pulled a 32-year-old woman from the ruins of a collapsed building in the Colombian city of Pereira on Tuesday where she had been trapped for 36 hours.

Russia released an American military veteran on Tuesday, allowing his return to the U.S. after four years of what his family and U.S. officials allege was wrongful incarceration and abusive treatment that left him near death.

North Korea's second ballistic missile launch in less than a week comes as the U.S. and South Korea prepare for Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises.

Crews are battling a fire and trying to rescue more survivors from a burning passenger ferry in rough seas near the Indonesian tourist island of Bali. Authorities say rescuers and passing vessels

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has survived a leadership vote among his party’s lawmakers less than three months before an election.

China's strongest typhoon this year battered the capital with bouts of intense rain that flooded key ‌roads and stranded vehicles, while lashing wide swathes of the country, after setting new rainfall records in central and eastern provinces.

Lebanese lawmakers on Tuesday approved a law prohibiting the death penalty, making it the first Middle Eastern country to end capital punishment.

Erblin Ademi watched from afar as workers excavated recently discovered mass graves from the 1998-99 war in Kosovo. Nearly 30 years after his father went missing, Ademi both feared and wished that his remains will finally be found.