The UK government is facing calls to investigate after an unconfirmed media report claimed former British Prime Minister Liz Truss' phone was hacked while she was foreign secretary.

The Federal Reserve is most likely going to raise interest rates by three quarters of a percentage point again on Wednesday, its fourth straight supersized hike. And it's still possible another rate increase of that magnitude could come in December.

Even by Facebook's standards, 2021 was a rough year.

Polls opened Sunday in Brazil's presidential election runoff between former leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, which has seen polls tighten dramatically in recent weeks.

Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian president who presided over Lebanon's cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, vacates the presidential palace on Sunday, leaving a void at the top of a failing state.

At least 100 people were killed after two car bombs exploded near Somalia's education ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday.

Stop us if you're heard this one before: On Tuesday, Israelis are going to the polls to elect a new Knesset, or parliament. It's the fifth time in less than four years that voters are casting ballots. Holding elections that often is bound to prompt some questions. Here are some answers.

Saifullah Paracha, a former detainee at the Guatanamo Bay detention facility, has been repatriated to Pakistan, according to a statement from the Department of Defense.

On the 40th day after Mahsa Amini died while in the custody of the Iranian regime's intrusive morality police, protests sparked by her death grew even more widespread, more defiant, more determined.

The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards has told Iranians to end the weeks-long demonstrations that have gripped the country, warning that Saturday would be their "last day" of protest.