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Nigerian troops have floundered against the Islamist militants

Police have shot dead a man who was threatening a woman with a knife at a house in London, Scotland Yard said.

Nearly three tons of cocaine packed in bricks marked with smiley faces and black Lamborghini sports cars was offloaded by the U.S. Coast Guard in Miami Beach, Florida on Thursday after being seized in Caribbean waters ne...

A new United Nations report released Thursday said that armed groups in Libya have indulged in widespread human rights abuses, including attacks on civilian buildings; shelling of hospitals; and abduction, torture and un...

More than 10 percent of women worldwide are raped or sexually abused by age 20, according to a new report from the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expresses careful optimism that a deal can be agreed with Russia to end fighting in the east of his country.

She was raised in an affluent suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, and loved Harry Potter and Coldplay. Now she's in Syria, married to an ISIS fighter, leaving her parents wondering what went wrong.

The treatment unleashes the body's immune system against tumors, and will initially be used against advanced melanoma.

The comedian will be honored in her hometown.

A teenage mother from Maine has the governor on her side in a legal battle to keep her ailing baby alive, even though the state now has custody and previously sought to enforce a "Do Not Resuscitate" order.

The U.S. has produced and distributed a graphic mock Islamic State propaganda video to fight the Sunni militant group via social media. The video, "Welcome to ISIS Land," was published by the State Department's Center fo...

Organisers want to take international artists to isolated country for two-week workshop that will see them work directly with North Koreans, under state supervision Norwegian artists are planning to open an international...

Ministry of Defence accused of failing to fully consult the head of the army before embarking on a series of major cuts Ministers have been accused by a parliamentary committee of putting Britain's military capabilities ...

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A U.S. security team in Benghazi was held back from immediately responding to the attack on the American diplomatic mission on orders of the top CIA officer there, three of those involved told Fox News' Bret Baier.

The word big does not do justice to a massive, long-necked dinosaur that shook the Earth in Argentina about 77 million years ago.

Five members of a private security team say an unidentified CIA station chief ordered them not to intervene (against their protests) as the consulate was under attack by militants. 

I don't have any do's for writing book reviews on slavery--I don't have any do's for writing book reviews, period--but I have a few don'ts, courtesy of the Economist's now-withdrawn review of The Half Has Never Been Told...

In June, a Los Angeles crowd was celebrating the Los Angeles Kings' Stanley Cup victory when people noticed a small drone overhead. It appears that members of the crowd thought the drone was operated by the L.A. Police D...

In a Sept. 4 Future Tense, Karmella Haynes misidentified vanilla flavoring, commonly found on store shelves and made from chemically synthesized vanillin, as vanilla extract, made from vanilla pods.

Imams across Scotland use Friday prayers to reiterate their opposition to extremism and call for all hostages to be released.

A plane carrying a third U.S. missionary infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia left the capital of the West African nation on Thursday on the way back to the United States for treatment in Omaha, Nebraska. Doctor Rick...