A new Miss Universe will be named in Friday’s finale in Bangkok, and for organizers, the culmination of the competition could come as a relief.

Bar Kupershtein smiles and laughs as if he hasn’t spent the last two years in “hell,”, as he describes it, his demeanor belying the time he spent in Hamas’ captivity in Gaza.

On a cool November night in 1999, dozens of transgender people and their friends stood thousands of miles apart in Boston and San Francisco. They lit slender candles and spoke into the surrounding ...

Portugal superstar forward Cristiano Ronaldo said the 2026 FIFA World Cup will “definitely’ be his last. “I will be 41 years old and I think will be the moment in the big competition,” Ronaldo told ...

Despite resistance from President Donald Trump, the House will vote this week on whether to release more files from the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Follow for live updates.

Aged Swiss Gruyère triumphs at the World Cheese Awards, beating over 5,000 rivals as judges endure a pungent, palate-stretching marathon of global dairy.

Weeks before 8-year-old Eloise “Lulu” Peck was carried off by the violent Texas floods that swallowed Camp Mystic in a surge of darkness and debris, she had suddenly begun to fear the forces that ...

Yamen Al-Najjar recalls his past life – the days when he went to school and laughed regularly. Today, the 16-year-old lives ...

When Blake Butera checked his phone after the birth of his first baby, he had about 600 text messages congratulating him on his new job: fatherhood.

Denmark’s biggest exports include Ozempic, Carlsberg and Lego. But now, European leaders think it has something more valuable to sell: an immigration system tough and effective enough to neuter the ...

President Trump frequently demonstrates his disdain for journalists. He expresses his admiration for authoritarians almost as often. Tuesday showed how intertwined those two instincts really are.

The region is seeing a boom in fossil fuels just as the impacts of the climate crisis really bite. It’s raising thorny questions about who gets to benefit from planet-heating oil.