Authorities saved all passengers and crew members aboard the vessel that sank about 9 miles off the coast of Catanzaro, Italy.

Iran has dropped another key demand related to nuclear inspections as negotiations continue over reviving the Iran nuclear deal, a senior administration official tells CNN.

Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty Danube River to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during World War II near Serbia's river port town of Prahovo. CNN's Michael Holmes reports.

A new case of Ebola virus has been confirmed in the city of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) said on Monday.

Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria's oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said on Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe.

Scientist Luiz Rocha has identified more than 30 new fish species in his exploration of deep coral reef ecosystems.

Flash flooding has killed at least 95 people, injured hundreds of others and swept away thousands of homes in Afghanistan, authorities in the crisis-hit country said Tuesday.

An independent inquiry will be held into the secret ministerial roles adopted by former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison before he was voted out of office three months ago.

Thousands of emergency responders are battling to contain fast-spreading wildfires in China's southwestern city of Chongqing amid a weeks-long, record heat wave in the region.

A tropical storm forced schools to close across the northern Philippines on Tuesday -- just one day after in-person learning had resumed following one of the world's longest pandemic-related shutdowns.