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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...

The trial of a group of cult members in China who beat a woman to death at a McDonald's restaurant opens in Yantai in Shandong province.

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...

A friend of accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to plead guilty Thursday to charges in connection with removing a backpack and computer from Tsarnaev's dorm room after the Boston Marathon bombing.

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 ...

Hamas says that three senior military leaders are dead following an Israeli airstrike early Thursday in the Gaza Strip. The Associated Press reports that Hamas sent a text message out to the media, stating that Mohammed ...

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...

Rescuers are still combing through the site of a landslide triggered on Wednesday by torrential rain in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture.

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 attorney general recalls the "humiliation and anger" he felt upon being stopped in his car by police and accused of speeding.

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...

Last 4 hostages freed in armed standoff at home in Chicago suburb; 2 men in custody

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."

The father of Liam Sweeney, who was killed in the Malaysia Airlines plane disaster in Ukraine, says his son's funeral will be a celebration of his life.

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.