World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful have said farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected his wish to be remembered as a simple pastor.

Lionel Messi’s once-in-a-generation career is complete. The Argentina superstar is finally a World Cup champion.

macky_ch/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) -- The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has tested negative for the coronavirus after he was moved to his prison's medical bay to be treated for a...

Police are searching for Quinxuan Pan, seen in this undated photo. - (New Haven Police Department)By Morgan Winsor, ABC News (LONDON) -- The United States Marshals Service has secured a "red notice" through Interpol in...

beyhanyazar/iStockBy Morgan Winsor, ABC News (LONDON) -- Nearly 2,000 inmates have escaped from a prison in southeastern Nigeria after heavily armed gunmen attacked the facility, authorities said. The massive jailbreak...

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy Morgan Winsor, ABC News (LONDON) -- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Tuesday that her country will open a travel bubble with Australia in less than two weeks. Quarantine-free...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStockBy Conor Finnegan, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. and Iran are holding indirect talks on Tuesday in what could be the first step toward reviving the 2015 deal that constrains Tehran's nuclear...

solarseven/iStockBy Erin Schumaker, ABC News (GENEVA) -- The World Health Organization criticized Europe's sluggish vaccine rollout as "unacceptably slow" in a recent statement, pointing to the low rate of Europeans who...

blueclue/iStockBy Guy Davies, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Jordan’s government has said that a coup attempt centered on former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the half-brother of the current monarch King Abdullah II, was...

Britus/iStockBy Morgan Winsor, ABC News (LONDON) -- A group of people were arrested in Dubai on Saturday over widely-shared images that showed women posing naked on a high-rise balcony in the city, police said. ...

KeithBinns/iStockBy Morgan Winsor, ABC News (LONDON) -- India has seen "an alarming rate of growth of COVID-19 cases and deaths" in recent weeks, the prime minister's office said Sunday. More than 12.3 million people in...

Courtesy Karson YiuBy Meredith Deliso and Zoe Magee, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, children the world over have adapted to a new normal that often has meant wearing masks in...

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da-kuk/iStockBy Aicha El Hammar Castano, Kirit Radia and Morgan Winsor, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- As Brazil emerges as an epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic with an outbreak that is virtually unchecked, the country's...

hansslegers/iStockBy Morgan Winsor, ABC News (LONDON) -- At least 43 children have been reportedly killed by armed forces in Myanmar in the two months since the military junta seized power, according to international...

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy Hatem Maher, ABC News (CAIRO) -- A Suez Canal blockage disturbing global markets, two trains colliding with each other, a garment factory blaze and a residential building collapse all came hot on...

Quintana Roo Nautical AssociatesBy Meredith Deliso and Anne Laurent, ABC News (CANCUN, Mexico) -- Two people are dead after a plane involved in a gender reveal stunt in Mexico crashed into the water. The incident...

SAM YEH/AFP via Getty ImagesBy Karson Yiu, ABC News (HONG KONG) -- At least 41 people are reported dead after a passenger train derailed in a tunnel near the city of Hualien in eastern Taiwan, according to local...

Macky_CH/iStockBy Patrick Reevell, ABC News (MOSCOW) -- The Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has declared a hunger strike in prison to protest what he says is authorities’ refusal to grant him access to...