Images from unrest in Chile, Hong Kong, and Iraq over the past few months, where demonstrators are using laser pointers as tools of defiance.

For many of the protests taking place around the world, the lack of an appointed leader is deliberate.

Some of the most violent clashes so far of the five-month-old pro-democracy protest movement in Hong Kong took place this past weekend, as riot police stormed the campus of a university where protesters had barricaded themselves.

An oblivious interview exposes the two-tier world in which Jeffrey Epstein flourished.

In just two years, TikTok has become India’s most downloaded app. Let the gold rush begin.

Japan's reluctance to disclose information about the release of radioactive water from its damaged Fukushima nuclear plant is hampering neighboring countries' efforts to minimize the impact, the head of South Korea's nuclear safety agency said on Wednesday.

Pope Francis arrived in Thailand on Wednesday to meet with its small but devoted Catholic minority on a seven-day Asian trip that will include a family reunion in Bangkok and take his anti-nuclear message to Japan.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement released three vessels and 16 people it had seized, South Korea's foreign ministry and a Houthi military source in Yemen said on Wednesday.

Two civilians were killed and a number of people were injured in an Israeli attack on the Syrian capital of Damascus, Syrian state media said on Wednesday.

Polls opened on Wednesday for Ethiopia's Sidama people to vote on self-determination in a referendum closely watched by other ethnic groups also seeking more autonomy since reforms by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed shook up the national power balance.

Iranian security forces have killed more than 100 protesters amid a government crackdown on demonstrations that erupted nationwide last week over a hike in fuel prices, according to a human rights organization.

An avalanche on the northern portion of the Siachen Glacier in Indian-administered Kashmir has killed four members of the Indian Army and two civilian porters.

North Korea state media claimed Tuesday scientists have developed a new diagnostic method for African swine fever.

Authorities said Tuesday they have raided Russia's largest synthetic drug lab, located on a farm outside of Moscow that officials say produced 1.5 tons of narcotics every month.

British budget airline EasyJet announced Tuesday it plans to become the world's first major carrier to be fully carbon neutral.