News Desk

The hunter in Norway was taking aim at a moose southeast of Oslo, but missed and accidentally hit a man sitting on the toilet in a nearby cabin.

The country’s most outspoken gay activist has announced his departure from the LGBT movement amid fallout from a gay ‘propaganda’ ban.

GlobalPost's senior foreign affairs columnist offers his insights on the chaos and violence in Egypt, and what's likely to happen now.

American middle-distance runner Nick Symmonds appears to be the first Olympic athlete to publicly challenge Russia’s controversial ban against gay "propaganda" while inside the country, Russian media reported.

Russian authorities say a plan to install SIM card readers in the Moscow Metro is designed to stop pickpockets — but observers suspect an ulterior motive.

A full moon is seen in the sky near Liverpool, in north-west England, in the early hours of June 24, 2013. In London, the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton has just delivered a baby boy. A full moon will also light up the sky tonight in the English city. Coincidence? Some think not. Here are some popular superstitions tied to full moons.

As Snowden prepares to plant his stakes in Moscow until finding a suitable getaway route to Latin America, the 30-year-old former intelligence worker is likely to pose a serious challenge to a Kremlin apparently fed up with the friction he has caused in the US-Russian relationship.

A Moscow court has taken the historic and unusual step of convicting a dead man -- the late Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer believed to have uncovered evidence of mass state-sponsored theft before he was arrested and mysteriously died in police custody.

Officials in the southern Russian city of Pugachev are struggling to contain an outpouring of anti-migrant anger after a Chechen teenager allegedly stabbed to death a local paratrooper during a brawl in a cafe last Saturday.

Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega say they'd shelter NSA leaker Edward Snowden to protect him from the superpower's persecution.

The hunt for National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden took another intriguing turn on Tuesday evening after the Austrian authorities searched Bolivian President Evo Morales’s plane for signs of the former CIA contractor after the leader’s flight was grounded in Vienna during a trip home from Moscow.

Edward Snowden is wanted in the United States on Espionage Act charges in association with the leak of 'sensitive documents.' From his long airport layover in Moscow, Snowden has sent asylum requests to more than 20 countries, but how do the citizens of those countries feel about taking in an American whistleblower?

President Obama has continued, or even expanded, some of Bush's most controversial policies, disappointing many of his supporters.

Austria is the latest country to pull troops from the cease-fire zone that's been a buffer between Israel and the encroaching Syrian civil war.

The Seoul municipal government is considering exporting its tap water as part of efforts to promote its high-quality drinking water, officials told Yonhap newswire Monday.