St. Mark's square closed as Venice flood waters rise

Australia donates more than 20 square feet of skin to help New Zealand volcano victims with life-threatening burns.

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives moved closer on Wednesday to impeaching President Donald Trump as a key House committee began debating formal articles of impeachment that are expected to be brought to the House floor next week.

New Zealand doctors will be tested to the limits of their expertise as they provide surgery to more than two dozen severely burned victims after Monday's deadly volcanic eruption, according to a London-based specialist for plastics and grafting. Jill

Israel heads back to the polls after neither Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party nor his main opposition, the Blue and White party, won enough seats to form a majority government in two previous elections.

India's ruling Hindu nationalist government on Wednesday won parliamentary approval for a far-reaching citizenship law that critics say undermines the country's secular constitution, as protests against the legislation intensified.

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who inspired millions of young people to take action against climate change, has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2019.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi spoke against allegations of genocide, brought by Gambia, in a U.N. court on Wednesday.

Joan Arthur isn't a climate scientist. She isn't a sailor, either. She's a part of an online community that has extracted millions of records from ship logs dating to the 1800s that have proven a treasure chest for modern day researchers.

Police in the New York metropolitan area were put on high alert to protect Jewish neighborhoods after an hours-long gunbattle with two men around a Jersey City kosher market that killed six people, including the gunmen and an officer.

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg accused political and business leaders of polishing their images rather than taking aggressive action in the fight against climate change at a United Nations summit on Wednesday.

The Pentagon announced on Tuesday it was halting operational training of all Saudi Arabian military personnel in the United States until further notice, after a Saudi Air Force lieutenant shot and killed three people last week at a base in Florida.

Jacinda Ardern's title as the youngest female Prime Minister has been taken by 34-year-old Sanna Marin who was sworn in yesterday as Finland's new Prime Minister.

Recovery operation on hold as tremors increase around the volcano where a group of tourist died in an eruption on Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted House Democrats as they unveiled articles of impeachment against him.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Tuesday he is still not fully convinced that the FBI acted without bias when it opened its 2016 investigation into possible links between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia. Colette Luke has more.

The top American and Russian diplomats met in Washington on Tuesday, and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he addressed Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 election with his counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.

Al Shabaab gunmen have launched an attack on a hotel near the presidential palace in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.

Democrats announced formal charges against President Donald Trump on Tuesday that accuse him of abusing power and obstructing Congress, making him only the third U.S. president in history to face impeachment.

A judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of Exxon Mobil Corp in a lawsuit brought by New York state, which accused the oil company of hiding from investors the true cost of addressing climate change. Jillian Kitchener has more.

President Donald Trump berated FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday after a U.S. government investigation found no evidence of political bias when the FBI began investigating contacts between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia in 2016. Lisa

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in ending decades of hostility with Eritrea. But he says the Horn of Africa faces a new rising threat: militant groups and global superpowers' thirst for supremacy.

Elusive British street artist Banksy has highlighted the issue of rough sleeping in a seasonal mural showing two flying reindeer pulling a homeless man on a street-bench sleigh.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is at the COP25 climate conference in Madrid. He says he's there for a simple reason: "I am here because President Trump is not.

Local Maori community leader Pouroto Ngaropo said on Tuesday the recent White Island volcano eruption that killed six people was a "sad" time for New Zealand.