The tech giant has been accused of using illegally mined metals in iPhones and other products sold around the world. The most valuable company in the world – Apple – is being challenged by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.…

A total of 50 people were killed and 76 injured in two highway accidents in southeastern Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Thursday. One of them was a collision between a bus and an oil tanker on the Kabul-Kandahar highway on…

Amazon.com workers at seven U.S. plants walked off the job early Thursday during the holiday shopping rush, protesting the retail giant's unfair treatment of workers. Warehouse workers in cities including New York, Atlanta and San Francisco were involved in what…

Giselle Pellicote, a French woman who survived a decade of sexual abuse by her husband and dozens of strangers, said she hopes her ordeal will help make the world a better place for “women and men” as her ex-spouse of…

A senior Russian general was killed by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow on Tuesday, a day after Ukraine's security service filed criminal charges against him. A Ukrainian official said the attack was carried…