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His presidential years were a time of extraordinary sales in political books

The data released Wednesday by a Chinese government-affiliated research firm includes Apple’s iPhone, Reuters reports

The town of Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland — marketed by tourism officials since the 1980s as the "real" home of Santa Claus — seeing milder and more unpredictable winters

VOA exclusive: Biden to stop in island nation of Cabo Verde en route to Angola, for his first presidential visit to the continent

Chaplains help their fellow 20,000 agents cope, try to prevent job-related trauma from degenerating into family crises, addiction or even suicide

Iran is likely high on President-elect Donald Trump's foreign policy agenda. The Islamic Republic has advanced its nuclear program to the point it could rapidly produce enough fissile material for a bomb. Michael Lipin looks at what Trump and his prospective cabinet members said about these threats.

7 out of 10 new adolescent infections were among girls

Plants generate nearly all of the country's electricity

There was no fresh statement by Israel's military, but a day earlier it said its forces were continuing to strike terror targets in the Gaza Strip

Outlets say OpenAI regularly breaches copyright by scraping large amounts of content from Canadian media to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system

Exchange raises concerns about impact on future detentions, practice of 'hostage diplomacy,' critics say  

There's relief over a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, but the Lebanese are now facing the realization of the challenges that lie ahead. The U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement raises multiple questions. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday pledged big tariffs on the United States' three largest trading partners - Canada, Mexico and China.

Officials from countries threatened with hefty tariffs warn of harm to the economies, inflation spike and damage to job markets

washington — The U.S. ratings agency Moody's downgraded its outlook for Hungary's government debt Friday citing "institutional and governance weaknesses" and concerns its antagonistic relationship with the EU could have financial consequences. Hungary is a recipient of substantial amounts of funding from the European Union, which are conditional on meeting certain criteria, including adherence to the rule of law. The country's nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, has clashed with...

Clashes between police and protesters also erupted late Friday in the Black Sea port of Batumi

'The US and the West made Kyiv authorities attack Russia's territory with their own long-range strike weapons,' North Korea's Kim Jong Un is quoted as saying

A Voice of America team visited Rocinha, Brazil's most populated favela, in an attempt to show visitors from around the world a different side of the famous hillside neighborhood, which is openly controlled by an armed group. See the full story here.