Residents of a Houston-area community were told to remain indoors and schools were closed on Thursday after a petrochemical plant fire that burned for days released high levels of volatile organic compounds into the air.

In January 2018, Venezuelan rebel Oscar Perez died in a firefight with government security forces. Now, Venezuela's former Attorney General Luisa Ortega claims she has proof he was executed.

Carabinieri officers freed the hostages and captured their kidnapper after "an operation that we see in films with special agents," a prosecutor said.

"Action" levels of benzene detected in air, tank farm owner says, so city of Deer Park issues order

Theresa May is facing a backlash from MPs as she heads to Brussels to appeal to EU leaders to grant her a delay to Brexit. The Prime Minister’s Downing Street statement, in which she blamed MPs for failing to implement the result of the 2016 EU referendum and told frustrated voters “I am on your side”, was described as a “low blow” by one former Tory minister. But Jeremy Corbyn was also under fire after pulling out of a meeting between Mrs May and opposition party leaders because party defectors who are now members of the Independent Group turned up. The behaviour of the Labour leader, who was also heading to Brussels on Thursday to hold talks with EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, was...

A bobcat that survived a Southern California wildfire has been hit and killed by a car, officials say.

Six days after more than 50 people were killed in a white supremacist terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday morning her government would be banning all military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles, according to Radio New Zealand. Ardern also said: "We will ban all high capacity magazines. We will ban all parts with the ability to convert semi-automatic or any other type of firearm into a military-style semi-automatic weapon. We will ban parts that cause a firearm to generate semi-automatic, automatic or close to automatic gunfire. New Zealanders have already turned over 37 firearms to authorities. Ardern addressed reporters...

Emergency crews in Texas on Wednesday finally extinguished a massive fire ​​​​​​​that had engulfed a petrochemicals facility for four days.

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medics said, and the military announced on Thursday that a soldier had discharged his weapon and it was reviewing the incident.