ERCOT is asking Texans to conserve energy on Monday between 6 and 10 a.m. as the arctic blast puts strain on the Texas power grid.

Cape Verde has become the third African nation to be declared malaria free, even as the disease continues to kill hundreds of thousands of people on the continent, the World Health Organization said Friday. The Atlantic archipelago of about 500,000 inhabitants�...

Grant Shapps: UK to send 20,000 troops to NATO exercise

Farmers and their tractors converged on Berlin from every corner of Germany on Monday morning to join a giant protest demanding a rethink of plans to tax them more. Some 3,000 tractors, 2,000 trucks and an estimated 10,000 people crammed the avenue leading to B...

A volcano that erupted in southwest Iceland for the second time in less than a month set fire to several houses in the fishing town of Grindavik, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) south-west of the capital Reykjavik. Molten lava flows reached the outskirts of Grindavik around noon on Sunday, setting thr...