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The parents of James Foley, the American journalist executed by the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, said they're trying to honor their son by resisting the urge to hate his captors and killer. Instead, they called...

Little is known about the man who killed journalist James Foley, 40, whose brutal death was depicted in a video posted online by Islamic State (ISIS) militants on Tuesday. But British Prime Minister David Cameron told th...

Getting a Big Mac in Moscow is about to get a lot harder. Russia's food safety watchdog has temporarily shut down four McDonald's in Moscow for what they say are sanitary violations. The closures come amid worsening ties...

More than 600 people traveled to Switzerland for the "sole purpose of committing suicide" between 2008 and 2012.

Paul Alterio has tried everything to help with his cluster headaches, but the 39-year-old says the pain has been paralysing.

Fighting in Central African Republic's capital kills Red Cross worker and injures at least 31, emergency services say.

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. This essay is excerpted from the first chapter of Patrick Cockburn's new book, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising, with special thanks to his publish...

(Reuters) - Thailand's coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha was appointed prime minister on Thursday by a legislature he hand-picked, giving the army chief a veneer of legitimacy even while the military presses on with ...

The mood in Ferguson seems to have changed after a tear-gas free night. On Wednesday night the crowd at W. Florissant St. was markedly smaller than it had been and police were more subdued. Officers were talking and laug...

When a masked Briton murdered U.S. journalist James Foley on camera, he said it was in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets, and threatened to execute another American captive...

Hamas said that it would intensify its attacks on Thursday and target Israel's strategic assets, including Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Al Jazeera reported.

During his trip to Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with students at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, and said that "change is coming." "He told us we are the futur...

The man who ISIS terrorists claim will be the next to be beheaded if President Obama doesn't end airstrikes against the organization is a Miami native and freelance journalist for...

The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, were relatively calm yesterday, especially compared to previous nights where heavily armed police have responded to protests with tear gas and arrests. But there was at least one polic...

Attorney General Eric Holder went to the strife torn town of Ferguson today where he met with the family of slain teenager Michael Brown and talked about his own run-ins with police that left him "angry and upset."

Move over, 300 Sandwiches. A 28-year-old man whose surname is Wang proposed to his girlfriend, surnamed Chen, and the engagement made China's Chengdu Evening News. The proposal, sponsored by a hot dog company, included 1...

Bad blood could possibly be good for charity, it seems.

Sotloff was taken hostage on August 4, 2013 by ISIL, but his disappearance was subject to a media blackout until now.

The Pope's South Korea trip comes as Christianity is booming in Asia--and under growing strain

The shooting of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, earlier this month by police officer Darren Wilson has sent shockwaves through the nation's political and law-enforcement establishments.

The investigation team looking into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in July plans to return to the crash site when the security situation in the country improves. Investigators had suspended their...

The Sports Illustrated cover jinx strikes again.