One-third of Turkey's children live in poverty, with many forced to work to support their struggling families.

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has transformed her resilience into purpose.

Haiti’s online media association says two reporters were killed and several were wounded in a gang attack on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital.

Pope Francis has opened the great Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica.

A network of faith-based organizations minister to seafarers in hundreds of the world’s ports.

A leading global food crisis monitor says deaths from starvation will likely pass famine levels in north Gaza as soon as next month.

All flights are now back on schedule, allowing passengers to travel home for the holidays.

France’s president and prime minister have managed to form a new government just in time for the holidays.

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region.

Bethlehem is marking another somber Christmas Eve under the shadow of war in Gaza.

An explosion at an ammunition factory in northwest Turkey left 11 dead and five injured Tuesday morning.

The United States and the United Kingdom have expressed deep concern over the recent handing down of convictions by Pakistani military courts to 25 civilian supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan over last year's riots.

The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual trappings of the city's favorite holiday: no public Christmas tree, no raucous scouts march, no decorations and no twinkling lights, in deference to the ongoing war in Gaza.

Two recently retired senior Israeli intelligence agents are sharing details about a deadly clandestine operation that targeted Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Syria with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies.

Pope Francis is formally inaugurating the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome.

Donald Trump is suggesting that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal.

Rome’s iconic Trevi Fountain reopened Sunday after three months of renovations on the 18th-century monument that’s one of the Italian capital’s main attractions.

Brazil’s Civil Defense Agency says a small plane has crashed into a Brazilian town that's popular with tourists and killed all 10 passengers and crew on board.

Nearly two million displaced Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to protect themselves from the coming winter.

The U.S. military says two U.S. Navy pilots have been shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident.

The Moken, a group of indigenous people from Thailand and Myanmar, once sailed freely between the archipelago of 800 islands off the coast of the two countries.

Officials say four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed when a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg.

Police are treating a car-ramming at a Christmas market in Germany that killed at least five people as an attack.

Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day.