Americas

Growing frustration at the backlog of asylum claims is prompting migrants to try to enter the U.S illegally.

Once a month for the last decade, Pepe Casanas, a 78-year-old Cuban, has hunted down a scorpion to sting himself with, vowing that the venom wards off his rheumatism pains.

A judge in Texas ruled that the U.S Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that his budget chief Mick Mulvaney will temporarily take on the role of White House chief of staff.

Cesare Battisti escaped from an Italian jail whilst serving life sentences in 1981.

It's raining cash! Drivers scrambled to grab cash spilt on a New Jersey highway by an armoured car.

They served in the US army, then got in trouble with the law. Because they were foreign citizens, US veterans were deported to Mexico. Now they're asking for a chance to come home

A group of hikers who ascended the Fuego volcano near Antigua, Guatemala, on November 24 2018, captured the moment they witnessed an unexpectedly large eruption at close range.

Euronews goes behind the scenes with Peter Clark, archive director at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, for a tour of the company's treasures.

"Verdi's "La Traviata" is showing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York: under the musical direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin and directed by Michael Mayer, Juan Diego Flórez makes his debut as the hapless Alfredo while Diana Damrau plays the tragic heroine Violetta.

Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen sentenced to three years in prison

Pilgrims arrive at Virgin of Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City

Each night, Mike Ziemkowski greets visitors and welcomes them to his Christmas garden with refreshments and cookies.

Hundreds of climate activists protested inside the Cannon House Office Building at the office of incoming U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, demanding House Democratic leaders form a select committee for a Green New Deal.

Overnight fire in Philadelphia guts apartment building

Thousands of Central American migrants spent weeks travelling north through Mexico in caravans, walking and hitching rides when possible, only for many to give up hope and turn back when they met resistance at the U.S. border.

NASA's InSight lander recorded the 'unworldly' sound of Martian wind

That's the view of New York prosecutors, who pointed out in court filings, that Cohen hadn't entered into a cooperation agreement with their office.

Thousands of fans gathered in Sao Paulo, Brazil to view the latest comics, video games, toys, anime movies and television shows. Fans met with artists during the four-day CCXP event, held since 2014, including stars from HBO's hit series 'Game of Thrones.'

Yefim Shubentsov claims to have cured 167,000 people from addiction by manipulating their energies.

Hundreds of residents were finally allowed back into neighborhoods in the Northern California town of Paradise a month after the blaze killed at least 85 people and destroyed about 14,000 homes.