U.S. futures are climbing as oil prices decline despite rising tensions in the Middle East and investors await a key inflation report

A senior British defense official says more than half a million Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine since Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait

Emma Bonino, a prominent Italian politician known for her work with the Radical Party, has died at 78

Experts say children need to struggle with everyday problems to develop independence

A senior military official with Yemen’s internationally recognized government says the Iran-backed Houthi rebels have taken the island of Mayun after government forces withdrew from there

Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived

A Hong Kong court has sentenced three activists who for years organized vigils in remembrance of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown to prison terms of about five to seven years

Police say five people have died and 40 others were injured after a Dutch tour bus slammed into a roadside crash barrier and overturned in eastern Switzerland