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Islamic State militants have released a video which purportedly shows the beheading of British citizen David Haines, multiple unconfirmed reports said. The 44-year-old aid worker was kidnapped in March 2013. IS Beheads B...

King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A rapid intervention team gets ready to screen arriving passengers for Ebola. The airport's health director orders the team to check a plane load of pilgrims ...

North Korea has released a 53,000 word English translation of a report debunking what officials consider false reports of abuse and human rights violations. The report was issued by the country's Association for Human Ri...

Rethinking Conspiracy posits that too many citizens have been indoctrinated with illogical and inappropriate attitudes regarding "conspiracy theories" and suggests it's time we reconsider our habitual thinking about the ...

I was browsing the paper this morning and came across an op-ed by sports writer Jeff Benedict about Ray Rice and the NFL's problem with domestic violence. After the usual review of the league's egregious mishandling of t...

Retired Marine Gen. John Allen has been selected to coordinate the international effort against the Islamic State militant group, Secretary of State John Kerry announced Saturday. 

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced that his country will be sending troops to the Middle East as part of an international effort to combat Islamic State, or ISIS militants. Abbot told reports in the Aust...

Four months ago Nigerian terror group Boko Haram kidnapped 220 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State. The mass kidnapping caught the attention of the international media, prompting prominent politicians and celebrities to p...

Gaza children return to school 2 weeks late after war with Israel

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf sacks 10 government officials who are "out of the country without an excuse," amid a national Ebola crisis.

In a significant step forward for shark conservation, all trade in five named species is to be regulated from today.

In response to the apparent beheading of David Haines, a kidnapped British aid worker, by the militant group Islamic State, U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the terrorist group and pledged to stand with Britain to "...

Coast guard says around 100 people saved from Philippine ferry sinking, rescue effort ongoing

A missing fighter jet pilot was presumed dead on Saturday by U.S. Navy officials, a day after the pilot was involved in a mid-air collision with another jet over the western Pacific Ocean.

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who this week dropped out of the city's mayoral race only to be replaced by his elder brother, on Saturday said in a newspaper interview that the early diagnosis from an abdominal tumor was "not g...

Residents in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol are gearing up for a potential government military offensive. Pro-Russian separatist fighters have launched sporadic attacks in the east, threatening a delicate truce b...

The challenge to the PM will only galvanise the UK's determination to tackle Islamic State, writes Sky's Mark White.

Sky's Joe Tidy finds voters in Scotland who are yet to make up their mind being intensely targeted with just days to go.

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Paris after a four-day tour of the Middle East trying to build a coalition to defeat Islamic State.

Before slayings, victim had called ambulance for man now charged in 4 slayings in Ohio city

Police in Texas are investigating the murder of a 2-year-old boy whose body was found in a shallow grave. The discovery came two days after police were sent photos of the child suggesting he had been the victim of abuse.