International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said Friday he was "encouraged" that Iran had agreed for a delegation from the UN nuclear watchdog to visit the country "within weeks".

Russia's central bank on Friday lowered interest rates to 18 percent from 20 percent earlier, its steepest cut since 2022 as the economy slows down faster than expected.

Nvidia stock is hovering near-all time highs. Spending plans from Amazon.com, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms could send it higher.

Almost half of the 266 deaths linked to Pakistan's heavier-than-normal monsoon rains were children on their national school holidays, officials said Friday.

A Hamas official on Friday accused US envoy Steve Witkoff of distorting reality after he announced Washington's withdrawal from Gaza truce talks and accused the group of blocking a deal.

Legendary Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx was discharged from hospital on Friday following complications after a hip fracture, his wife Claudine told Belgian daily newspaper Het Nieuwsblad.

When the first salvo of Cambodian artillery screamed across her village, Thai seamstress Pornpan Sooksai's thoughts turned to her five beloved cats: Peng, Kung Fu, Cherry, Taro and Batman.

The Easter period usually offers a rare respite in Gedeb, in Ethiopia's deeply troubled north, but on April 17 death rained from the skies in this sleepy town caught up in a war between rebels and the ...

Stalked by war and hunger for two years, more and more Sudanese civilians are desperately seeking safety in Europe, braving perilous crossings of the Libyan desert and the Mediterranean Sea.

GameStop shares are missing the latest bout of meme-stock trading.

US President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed the decision by France's Emmanuel Macron to recognize a Palestinian state as pointless.

US President Donald Trump said Friday that Hamas did not want a ceasefire deal in Gaza, after Israel and the United States quit indirect negotiations with the Palestinian militant group.