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More than 15,000 citizens from 80 countries have joined the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, estimates from U.S. intelligence indicate. Of these, one particular group has become especially prominent. Among high-ranking l...

A court in Cuba sentences the president of a Canadian transport company to 15 years in jail and seizes assets worth $100m (£62m).

It's easy to forget, but there are still wild places in America -- places where a man can disappear. For 16 days, Eric Matthew Frein has eluded one of the...

Fellow mosque-goers described workplace-beheading suspect Alton Nolen as "a little odd," while the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, where he worshipped, sought to distance itself from him on Saturday....

Tens of thousands join mass civil disobedience over voting rights following violent clashes between police and students Hong Kong activists have kicked off a mass civil disobedience campaign over voting rights early, aft...

A rocket was fired toward the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen on Saturday, wounding several guards, in an attack by an Al Qaeda splinter group to assert dominance, a Yemeni diplomat confirmed to Fox News.

The PM says he hopes to persuade the public that expanding the IS operation into Syria is legal and appropriate.

Volcano erupts with thundering sound in Japan; choppers rescue 7, 32 still missing; many hurt

Liberia's chief medical officer is on a 21-day Ebola quarantine after her assistant died from the illness, according to health officials.

Head of Ontario-based transport firm which did estimated $80m in business annually with Cuba jailed for 15 years.

Authorities said a Ferguson (Mo.) police officer was shot and wounded while on patrol Saturday evening.

The al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria, al-Nusra Front, has vowed to retaliate against the US airstrikes, which have also targeted their positions alongside key Islamic State group, or ISIS, installations. This is the first ...

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The tests of leadership keep coming for Barack Obama. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the future of Western civilization might hang on whether he passes...

The revolution, apparently, will not have its own perfume line.

(Reuters) - U.S. airports reported hundreds of residual flight cancellations on Saturday, a day after a fire at a Chicago-area air traffic control center that authorities said was set by an employee who then tried to tak...

The effects of an employee's attempted suicide and alleged sabotage of the Illinois air traffic control center where he worked stretched into a second day.

North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has been out of the public eye for months, with speculation pointing toward the dictator's weakness for cheese and tobacco contributing to a bad case of gout. The issue is so serio...

This is part 1 of the transcript of my interview with Paul Craig Roberts and Noam Chomsky on the future of capitalism. More parts will follow in the coming days.

An Ohio man who raised $55,000 in a joking crowdfunding appeal to pay for his first attempt at making potato salad threw a huge public party Saturday that promised "peace, love and potato salad."

The Oklahoma man suspected of beheading a former co-worker at a food distribution warehouse last week, who was shot by another employee trying to thwart the attack, was placed under arrest in a hospital where he underwen...

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