Known as “Queen Elizabeth of Houston,” Elizabeth Francis died this week at age 115, making her the oldest person in the ...

The United States has brought hundreds of thousands of children from abroad to be adopted by American families ...

A Ugandan court has sentenced a former commander in the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to 40 years in prison ...

The U.K. agreed to hold talks about its historical involvement in the slave trade in a joint statement with other Commonwealth leaders in Samoa, but continued to rule out the ...

The 50-year-old newspaper was turning yellow and its edges fraying, so she had it laminated, not as a memento but as proof—America made a promise to her, and did not keep it. She pointed to the ...

Phones are buzzing in Tehran as the new President Masoud Pezeshkian was awakened by air raid sirens shortly after midnight ...