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The police officer involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager last weekend in Ferguson, Missouri, an incident that has sparked repeated and sometimes violent racially charged protests, was injured in the...

Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhan is among four recipients of mathematics' top prize, the Fields Medal.

The Rev. Al Sharpton pressed police Tuesday to release the name of the officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in suburban St. Louis, and he pleaded for calm after two nights of violent protests over the young...

The family of Jeffrey Edward Fowle, an American tourist detained in North Korea for apparently breaking an unspecified law, has apologized to the reclusive state and asked for his release.

A car bomb exploded in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 21 others in a predominantly Shiite area of the Iraqi capital, Reuters reported. Another blast from a roadside bomb killed two people a...

Following a report by Human Rights Watch in which it claimed that Egyptian forces deliberately killed over 1,000 protestors on political grounds, Egypt said the group's investigations were illegal.

Australian prime minister won't rule out sending a combat force to Iraq to prevent 'genocide'

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Reports of a new influx of weapons as war pushes the world's youngest nation to the brink of famine.

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the situation in Iraq from his vacation compound at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts on Aug. 11, 2014. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

Authorities are still trying to piece together why a man shot up a house before stealing and car

The Federal Aviation Agency has declared a no-fly zone over Ferguson, Missouri as tensions between police and protesters continued after last weekend's police shooting of Michael Brown.

Today, the state of the world from Kiev to Cairo is harrowing, and the Arab Spring has failed to blossom but turned directly to winter. The Middle East has remained a horror chamber since the last century. If we have lea...

Today's wars seem to be against mostly civilians -- women, children, the elderly -- those who cannot fight back or defend themselves. Stark proof that, no matter where the war is, it is Genocide, War Crimes, and Wars Aga...

On his first papal visit to Asia, Pope Francis will celebrate Asia Youth Day as he looks to revitalize evangelism in the region.

Seth Mazzaglia dropped his bid to skip his sentencing hearing, at which Lizzi Marriott's friends and family will give victim impact statements.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proposed modest economic changes and kept the bureaucracy largely in place, frustrating those who thought he would introduce bold policies.

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the Baghdad home of new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday, two police sources and local media said. "The suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoin...

Police in Haiti say they have captured the kidnapper said to be behind mass prison breakout

It's clear for lots of reasons--political, economic, strategic, electoral, opportunistic, moral, and simply sensible, to name a few--that President Obama has no desire to get drawn back into the Iraq war. So why is he bo...

Investors went bargain hunting on signs of easing tensions in Ukraine and Iraq. The major indexes all posting gains- with the Dow turning positive for the year. The stocks that did lose were dramatic- both Candy Crush ma...

Oklahoma's governor bashed a group of New York City devil worshipers for hosting a satanic bacchanalia in the Sooner State -- but the sensitive satanists are mad as hell because...