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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."

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

It takes Sanduk Ruit about five minutes to change someone's life.

The mother of an American man in North Korea says her son is bipolar.

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.

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...

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.

A home doesn't always have to be a traditional house. It can be a shipping container. Or, a giant structure that resembles a group of mushrooms. Or for one lucky family, an old hotel that was the starting point for one i...

Is "Unbroken,'' the much-anticipated film directed by Angelina Jolie, too unapologetically patriotic for Hollywood's anti-American sensibilities? And does the film "American Sniper,'' directed by Clint Eastwood, delve to...

On Sunday, police in Alabama arrested 22-year-old Markale Deandra Hart on murder charges for the early Sunday shooting death of Jakell Mitchell, a redshirt freshman football player at Auburn University. Mitchell's girlfr...

We knew that Richard Melman, founder and chairman of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, would turn L2O, his two-Michelin-star restaurant closing at the end of the year, into a new concept.

At a prize ceremony honoring peace, Adán Cortés says violence and injustice sent him rushing toward the stage.

Miss South Africa Rolene Strauss was crowned Miss World on Sunday in a competition in London.

An American has illegally entered North Korea and has publicly condemned U.S. policy at a press conference there.