This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Eloy Martin, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide made or ...

More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago on Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese ...

As fears grow of a renewed full-blown civil war, the United States on Sunday ordered all its non-emergency staff to leave the ...

Populations of the rare marine mammals, with their big, round eyes and prominent whiskers, had dwindled so dramatically that the species at one point faced extinction.

The last night of the Rio de Janeiro Carnival the top samba schools captivate audiences at the marquee Sambadrome with their ...

Pope Francis continued his recovery from double pneumonia Sunday after doctors reported some positive news: after more than three weeks in the hospital, the 88-year-old pope is responding well to ...

Bianca Monteiro, from the Portela samba school, performs during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, ...