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Leaders of Hamas' military wing, the al Qassam Brigade, are eager to show off their weapons. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.

A gunman stormed into a trendy cafe in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday and was holding 12 people hostage while forcing them to hold up Islamic banners in the window, reports...

Hostages were being held inside a central Sydney cafe where a black flag with white Arabic writing could be seen in the window, local television showed on Monday, raising fears of an attack linked to Islamic militants.

A FedEx truck carrying hundreds of packages crashed on an interstate in Mahwah, New Jersey, spilling its contents across the roadway. (Dec. 15)

The students at this Northern California high school are learning more than just the birds and the bees.

Three men were arrested and charged over the weekend as they took part in police brutality protests along Michigan Avenue in the Magnificent Mile and Gold Coast areas.

Turkish police on Sunday arrested senior journalists, media executives and even the scriptwriter for a popular television series on charges of "forming, leading and being a member of an armed terrorist organization."

Imelda Staunton was breathtaking and Sofie Gråbøl made a killing, but our future monarch took the crown. In the first of our Stage critics' picks of the year, Michael Billington lists his top 10 theatre shows of 2014 M...

IMF Says Ukraine Fails to Meet Conditions of the April 30th 2014 $17 Billion Loan

Two cool summers in a row have now allowed the pack ice in the Arctic to increase and then hold on to a good deal of its volume.

People working shifts in England have higher rates of obesity and long-term health problems than those doing normal hours, according to a major study.

The markings were seen on the rear of Lewis Hall along Powderhouse Blvd. and were similar to those seen both on- and off-campus late last month.

Ed Miliband commits to introducing law to tackle both migrants' poor working conditions and undercutting of locals' wages Employers who exploit immigrants by offering them lower wages and worse conditions than British re...

Heidi Schlumpf says erroneous reports that the Pope said animals can get in too went viral on the internet, but turned out to be false. Pope's can't just change the rules like that.

US Secretary of State John Kerry meets his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Rome on the eve of talks with the Israeli prime minister.

Palestinians to present draft resolution at Security Council seeking a two-year deadline for Israel to end occupation.

A prosecutor released hundreds of pages of additional documents Saturday from the investigation into the police shooting of Michael Brown, including an interview transcript of a friend who initially asserted...

State child welfare officials have stopped sending juvenile wards to a troubled Rockford residential facility following Tribune reports that youths inside the center were assaulted and lured into prostitution.

Japanese voters gave the Liberal Democrats a big majority but with little enthusiasm The results of the Japanese general election are, in one word, strange. The coalition led by the incumbent prime minister, Shinzo Abe, ...

The ex-Ukip candidate Kerry Smith claimed that he made offensive remarks due to stress and the fact that he was taking strong sedatives. So should pharmaceutical companies issue new side-effects warnings? 'I was going ba...

Three more suspects have been arrested in the slaying of 15-year-old Demario Bailey, who police say was shot to death after he came to the aid of his twin brother when robbers jumped the two as they walked to basketball ...

Reports: Self-proclaimed "healer" already faced allegations of sexual assault.