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Atika Shubert breaks down the details of a video showing the simultaneous beheading of 22 Syrian captives held by ISIS.

Security is raised at US embassies and bases, the White House says, ahead of the release of a report into harsh CIA interrogations.

Hundreds of people marched through Berkeley for a third night a row, blocking a major highway and stopping a train as activists in this ultra-liberal bastion protest grand jury decisions not to indict white police office...

(Reuters) - Hong Kong's High Court has ordered the main protest sites that have choked the financial city for more than two months to be cleared, building up to a final showdown between pro-democracy activists and author...

A South African judge is set to rule on whether prosecutors can challenge Oscar Pistorius' five-year sentence, which they regard as too lenient.

The sudden death of a newlywed 75-year-old man had led to suspicions that his wife, Chisako Kakehi, may have killed as many as seven men.

Graphic details about sexual threats and other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured militants will be detailed by a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the spy agency’s...

A reference to the "mass destruction of [Ukraine's] own citizens" was dropped from a draft copy of a Dec. 5 speech, TIME discovers

A high school football quarterfinal playoff game is so important to Oklahoma City's Frederick A. Douglass High School that the team is appealing to a state district judge to try to get a do-over on a bad call. Down by on...

A threat was made to kidnap and kill a police officer in Birmingham on Monday night, say Sky sources.

June Steenkamp speaks to Sky as a judge prepares to rule on a state appeal that could lead to a longer sentence for the athlete.

A policeman is killed in a bomb attack in Bahrain, which authorities blame on the Hezbollah militant group.

Three soldiers shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Sanliurfa province on border with Syria.

Hundreds of demonstrators staged protests and "die-ins" outside New York's Barclays Center Monday night ahead of the Brooklyn Nets-Cleveland Cavaliers NBA game. Protesters walked through traffic and sprawled flat in the ...

WASHINGTON -- Republican and Democratic leaders from both houses of Congress negotiated on a spending bill into the night Monday as the deadline loomed for funding the government. The next 24 hours are likely to determin...

The 34-year-old is free to return to Britain after a judge ruled the case against him was too weak to secure a conviction.

Global efforts over the past decade have halved the number of people dying from malaria - a tremendous achievement, says the World Health Organization.

'As long as they're peaceful'

Detectives from the UK-led investigation will be in attendance but it is understood Portuguese officers will lead the questioning.

More than 600 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have ended up in over 53 countries

A mom and her two children are dead after a private jet crashed into their Maryland home today, also killing the three people aboard the plane, authorities said.

The King Tut's tomb of cars.