Vito, a pug from Chapel Hill, N.C., beat out more than 1,900 dogs representing more than 200 breeds and varieties that ...

British lawmakers on Friday will be given the chance to vote on plans to permit people with terminal illnesses the legal right to end their own life. The law's language has divided parliament.

In Washington state this past election, voters upheld one of the most ambitious climate laws in the U.S., rejecting a voter initiative to repeal it. Climate activists hope this could be a blueprint.

People in Gaza have had to contest with Israeli airstrikes, hunger, armed gangs of looters and — now — a rainy winter without shelter.