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Fun guitarist Jack Antonoff, 30, thinks there is a lot of terrible music out there, but not Taylor Swift. "There's a lot of junk. People have to spread out and find more interesting stuff, because they're not being fed i...

Street children in Uganda are facing constant abuse from police and other government officials, Human Rights Watch says.

Israeli and Palestinian leaders should emulate the compassion of a grieving parent

Video from a Gaza media agency appears to show the moment a shell killed four boys playing on a beach. Palestinian health workers said the shell was fired from an Israeli gunboat off Gaza's Mediterranean coast. The boys,...

The ruling Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney follows a similar ruling in Northern California that has kept the death penalty on hold in California for years.

The Israeli military has said it has foiled an attack by 13 Palestinian gunmen who tunnelled in from Gaza.

14 Tunisian soldiers killed in militant attack near the Algerian border - officials

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses media reports that Russia plans to reopen an electronic listening post in Cuba used during the Cold War.

Two suspects in a bank robbery and one of their hostages were killed Wednesday after a car chase that ended in a gun battle in the central California city of Stockton. 

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, in a call to the Associated Press, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes backs a team aiming to succeed on a trip which was almost attempted by Ernest Shackleton 100 years ago.

Despite overwhelming evidence that a stitch in time saves nine, aid spending on prevention and preparedness remains tiny 2013 was a record year for worldwide spending on humanitarian relief. Millions of people were affec...

Millions face second day without power after storm paralyses the capital, kills 38 and destroys thousands of homes.

The weather is going to get even hotter today with with temperatures predicted to be warmer here than in Hawaii and the Bahamas.

Connecticut judge sentences two men for providing material to support the Taliban through print and online publications.

Afghan troops surround suicide squad who carried out bombardment from neighbouring buildings A squad of suicide attackers took over a half-finished building just outside the perimeter of Kabul airport to shower rockets a...

Airlines had previously avoided Ukrainian airspace as well

The theme of "Here and Elsewhere," a new exhibition at the New Museum on the Lower East Side, is art "from and about the Arab world."

An internal FBI report obtained by The Guardian says that self-driving cars have the potential to be used as "lethal weapons" in the future. The report, written by the Strategic Issues Group of the FBI's Directorate of I...

Earlier this week, reports emerged indicating Microsoft may be about to go through their largest job cut in history, as an estimated 5,800 jobs were on the line. The reality of the cut, however, is much worse.

Taliban fighters fired volleys of rocket-propelled grenades at Kabul's airport early Thursday morning after seizing control of a nearby building.

Tariq Abu Khdeir, 15, and his mother flew back to Tampa on a flight arriving from New York and were greeted by about 50 cheering supporters