Gambia's Yahya Jammeh reportedly stepped down after mounting political and military pressure to recognize last month's elections.
Three of the survivors were children discovered in the hotel ruins, firefighters announced.
Photos show ISIS forces have destroyed the Roman theater in Palmyra, Syria.
President Donald Trump is known for speaking his mind -- even about some of the world's most prominent leaders.
Calling Trump a "would-be dictator" and predicting May "won't last" as prime minister, George Soros described a rocky road ahead for global markets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was has been announced as the winner of the first Hugo Chavez Prize for Peace and Sovereignty.
The holy city's top official welcomed the soon-to-be 45th president in a video posted Thursday night.
The militant group blew up the facade of the Unesco World Heritage site — built in the second century — and a four-sided monument, according to the Syrian state-run news agency.
A survey of 11,000 galaxies has revealed that dark matter — the mysterious substance that makes up 27 percent of the universe — may be sucking out the lifeblood of galaxies throughout the universe.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who visited Donald Trump in New York in November, is likely to pay the incoming president another visit late January, reports said.
Seoul's and Washington's move to install the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system has elicited sharp criticism from China and Russia.
The declassified documents, seized by the Navy Seals team responsible for killing Osama in 2011, include letters to family, expense account entries, and Bin Laden's observations on world events.
A team of German researchers has demonstrated a technique to manipulate quantum vacuum — a breakthrough that could eventually yield clues about the quantum state of light.
The news comes amid growing concerns over the future of the search for the Malaysia Airlines plane after authorities suspended the hunt Tuesday.
About 20 people were also injured in the incident, which police said was not terror-related, in the central business district of the Australian city.
The Mexican drug kingpin was expected to face a number of charges for the global cocaine ring he oversaw.
Teori Zavascki was in charge of a political probe into a group of elected officials in Brazil who were accused of accepting billions of dollars in bribes.
An animal rights group caught a group of bears begging for food on video.
The nation's far-right leaders are hoping Donald Trump can help it claim more settlements during his administration.
Russia's government-funded news service RT was blocked from posting photos, video or shared content on Facebook for nearly 24 hours and was initially prevented from posting until after Trump's inauguration.
The new missiles are designed to fly into space and track and destroy long-range weapons.
Although the officers reportedly abducted the man on pretense of narcotics, South Korean authorities say the businessman was not involved in drug activity in the Philippines.
In Israel, stores have traditionally had to remain closed on the Sabbath.
The Obama-Putin relationship started with optimism for better relations, but is now wholly broken.
Law enforcement officials stopped the protests within minutes at the ceremony to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the Chinese invasion of the disputed Paracel Islands in South China Sea.
The search for Flight MH370 was suspended Tuesday after the nearly three-year-long underwater hunt for the plane yielded no concrete clues as to its whereabouts.
Some churches use Epiphany to celebrate and remember both the visit of the Wise Men and Jesus' baptism.
About four earthquakes of 5.2-magnitude and higher hit near the hill town of Amatrice in a space of only four hours, some 60 miles north-east of Rome.
The detention comes after U.S. intelligence agencies found that Russian hackers were involved in the November 2016 cyberattacks that possibly influenced the presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.
Based on images of two pulsars, astronomers suggest the orientations of their spin and magnetic axes could explain the presence or absence of radio and gamma-ray pulses.
