Max Verstappen celebrated his long-awaited maiden pole position with record-breaking speed on Saturday when he topped the times for Red Bull in a tense and closely-fought qualifying session at the Hungarian Grand Prix. In doing so, he became the 100th different pole sitter in Formula One,...

 Spain's maritime rescue service said it saved 59 migrants, nearly all minors, trying to make the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea in a small boat. The service says that the migrants were located Saturday in the Strait of Gibraltar by a Civil Guard patrol craft, which...

Iraq's Yazidi minority held its summer festival on the weekend, five years after jihadists seized their ancestral heartland of Sinjar, in a brutal assault that still haunts the community. On August 3, 2014, Islamic State group fighters seized Mount Sinjar, and went on to slaughter thousands...

 Russian police Saturday detained at least 311 people attending a protest in Moscow to demand free elections, including prominent activist Lyubov Sobol, after the authorities warned the demonstration was illegal. Police removed Sobol from a taxi and bundled her into a van minutes...