Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged then-President Donald Trump not to relent with North Korea and to keep up the threat of military pressure, according to his memoir.

Japanese zookeepers believe they have solved the mystery of how a gibbon became pregnant despite living alone in her cage.

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the divisions in his country were no worse than the political split in the United States, in an exclusive CNN interview Friday ahead of his meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a national state of disaster in response to the country's drawn-out energy crisis, calling it "an existential threat" to Africa's most developed economy.

Russia will cut crude oil production by half a million barrels per day starting in March, a little over two months after the world's major economies imposed a price cap on the country's seaborne exports.

In the introduction to her book "Butts: A Backstory," journalist Heather Radke recalls a moment when, at 10 years old, she and a friend were cat-called by two teenage boys while out riding their bikes.

A car drove into people at a bus stop in Jerusalem Friday, killing at least two including a child in what Israeli police are initially describing as a "ramming terror attack."

Adidas' breakup with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is a pricey one.

Plunging into the icy waters surrounding Scandinavia, divers Jonas Dahm and Carl Douglas hunt for vessels long lost to the ocean, what they call the "ghost ships'' of the Baltic Sea.