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Islamic State group fighters armed with rocket launcher shoot down Iraqi attack helicopter

A new set of standards is to be drawn up for teaching assistants in England's state schools, the government says.

David To watched with a mixture of pride and apprehension Thursday as a new generation of students demonstrated for democracy and wondered if history would be made or simply repeat itself.

Russia's President let Mikhail Khodorkovsky out of prison. Was that a bad miscalculation?

Two teachers are accused of having group sex with a student in Louisiana after school officials told authorities the 16-year-old was bragging to his peers.

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that Texas could begin enforcing restrictions on abortion clinics that critics of the new rules say will force all but seven of the facilities in the state to shut do...

Public health officials in Texas are tracking 100 people who are believed to have had contact with the first man to be diagnosed with Ebola in the US.

Boys who wrestle for Catholic school teams in central Pennsylvania are required to forfeit if facing a female opponent under a policy adopted by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg.

Australian warplanes will conduct airstrikes as part of the United States-led coalition's campaign against the Islamic State group's strongholds in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday, after the country's cab...

The Prime Minister meets with President Ashraf Ghani in talks described by the Taliban as a "US orchestrated sham".

On Friday, police in Thailand announced the arrest of two unidentified workers from neighboring Myanmar for the murder of two British tourists on the small southern beach island of Koh Tao, or Turtle Island. David Miller...

UK Prime Minister David Cameron arrives in Kabul for talks with new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.

Vietnam welcomes US partial lifting of ban on lethal arms sales

WASHINGTON -- With devastating conflicts abroad dominating the news and midterm elections looming, President Obama made a play to get some credit for national economic gains by claiming "we are...

The U.S.-led attack on the Islamic State group claimed its first American life Thursday when a search and rescue operation was called off for a U.S. Marine who went missing in the Persian Gulf after his aircraft suffered...

An American freelance journalist working in Monrovia, Liberia, has tested positive for Ebola, his father said in a statement tonight.

Islamic State militants released on Friday a new video showing the beheading of British hostage Alan Henning, said the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist groups.

A silent Sherlock Holmes film made in 1916 and featuring the only performance by pioneering actor William Gillette is uncovered in the French film archives.

Hospital says patient did not acknowledge being around anyone ill in Africa

A federal judge has found boxing promoter Don King liable for breach of contract over a highly anticipated championship bout in Moscow that was cancelled hours before the opening bell...