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TOKYO -- Japan’s hugely popular female pop group AKB48 canceled fan events Monday after a saw-wielding man attacked two members and a staffer, shocking the nation and raising questions over...

It was Friday evening when the parents of Elliot Rodger clicked open the 140-page manifesto emailed to them from their son and learned of his plans for mass-murder and suicide. Frightened and alarmed, they called 911 and...

(Reuters) - Chinese police in the far western region of Xinjiang have taken down 23 "terror and religious extremism groups" and caught more than 200 suspects in May, state media said, days after the region's deadliest at...

Two-day elections open Monday for 53 million voters amid opposition calls for a nationwide boycott.

Name was on a list of participants in briefing with Barack Obama and subsequently sent to the media, Washington Post reports The White House inadvertently included the name of the top CIA official in Afghanistan on a lis...

Faisal al-Mekdad tells TIME the government of President Bashar al-Assad remains defiant. "When terrorists attack our people, do you expect us to respond by throwing flowers?"

Pope Francis is to visit Israel's national Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, on the final leg of his three-day Middle East tour.

As Petro O. Poroshenko emerged as the front-runner, attitudes toward the billionaire businessman began to shift and personal attacks ceased.

BRUSSELS -- Belgium launched a nationwide manhunt Sunday for a lone suspect in a shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum as the toll in the assault rose to four...

Muslims youths killed and mutilated by Christian militia while on their way to an interfaith football match.

Nigeria's defense chief Alex Badeh says the military knows where the girls are but cannot use force to free them

The White House accidentally revealed the name of the CIA's top intelligence official in Afghanistan to some 6,000 journalists.

The Cebu City Zoo in the Philippines says visitors can overcome a fear of snakes during a massage from a pack of pythons.

Scottish supporters of Edward Snowden say an independent Scotland should offer political asylum to the man whose disclosure of classified NSA documents revealed pervasive U.S. surveillance around the world. Members of th...

As India's Narendra Modi prepares to take the oath of office, Sumnima Udas examines the challenges he faces.

A girl was killed when she was hit by a CTA bus in the South Shore neighborhood this afternoon, authorities said.

Joseph Brunson's visit to grave sites overwhelmed granddad.

Voters in the tiny Spanish village of Castrillo Matajudios, whose name means "Camp Kill Jews," overwhelmingly decided Sunday that it's time to change the name their town has had for nearly four centuries.

Suffolk Police are hunting for Lewis Powter, who has a Dennis the Menace tattoo on his right arm.

Two members of popular Japanese pop group AKB48 are injured after a man attacks them with a saw at a fan event.

Party doubles its MEPs in the capital to four as Lib Dems lose their only London representative Labour is celebrating after doubling the number of its London MEPs a result which is likely to edge the party past the Torie...

For U.S., China and Pakistan, India's new leader, Narendra Modi is a wildcard.