Ireland's Sinn Fein stunned the establishment by beating the two centre-right parties that have led every government in the country's history, but fell just short of winning the most seats.
The two Democrats who led the Iowa caucuses — Senator Bernie Sanders and former mayor Pete Buttigieg — have both requested a recanvass of some caucus results, the Iowa Democratic Party says.
At least 30 people have been killed in Nigeria's northeastern Borno region after suspected Boko Haram Islamists set ablaze several trucks carrying passengers on Sunday night, eyewitnesses and residents told Reuters.
Uganda is scrambling to respond to the biggest locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in decades, while the United Nations is warning the already vulnerable region "simply cannot afford another major shock" to its food supplies.
North Korea continued to enhance its nuclear and ballistic missile programs last year in breach of United Nations sanctions, according to a confidential UN report seen by Reuters on Monday.
Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri is being sued by the California police officer he scuffled with in the moments after his team won the NBA championship last June.
Turkey said it hit back at Syrian government forces on Monday, after "intense" Syrian shelling killed five of its soldiers and wounded five others in Syria's northern Idlib province.
Turkey said it hit back at Syrian government forces on Monday, after "intense" Syrian shelling killed five of its soldiers and wounded five others in Syria's northern Idlib province.
Four Chinese military hackers have been charged with breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of tens of millions of Americans, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday.
Model Claudia Salinas is expected to testify in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial early Monday morning as the defence's latest witness. Another model, Lauren Marie Young, claimed last week Salinas did nothing while Young was allegedly raped by Weinstein in 2013.
Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter rocketed into space Sunday night on an unprecedented mission to capture the first pictures of the sun's elusive poles.
President Nayib Bukele and a group of soldiers armed with automatic weapons briefly occupy El Salvador's Congress, stepping up a pressure campaign to force lawmakers to back a crime-fighting plan.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's designated successor unexpectedly threw in the towel Monday, plunging her conservative party into deeper crisis as it struggles to agree on its future political direction after losing votes to the far right.
China reported a rise in new virus cases Monday, possibly denting optimism that disease control measures including isolating major cities might be working, while the operator of a cruise ship in Japan reported dozens of new cases.
Viamo is a social enterprise with Canadian roots based on harnessing that the availability and popularity of cellphones in certain developing countries to disseminate educational, everyday information some people otherwise have little access to.
