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Lured to Syria by the promise of a pure Islamic state, Mo only lasted a few months before he escaped to Turkey and asked for help at the U.S. consulate. "I've let my family down, I've let my nation down, and I've let God...

Everything you need to know about missing EgyptAir flight MS804, which disappeared between Paris and Cairo.

When Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's first female president, takes office Friday, she will have to balance two very different sets of expectations -- from those who voted for her and a Chinese leadership that wants the island on ...

The United Nations has expressed alarm after scientists recorded the 12th straight global monthly heat record in a row. …

30 bodies have been recovered so far, but at least 220 families remain unaccounted for

Michel Temer took office last week after President Dilma Rousseff was suspended pending her impeachment trial

A black woman was fatally shot on Thursday by a San Francisco police officer checking on a stolen vehicle, marking another killing for a department faced with public outrage over fatal police shootings and a federal revi...

A Georgia psychiatrist has been indicted on three counts of felony murder and 59 counts of unauthorized distribution of pain medicine prescriptions after at least 12 of his patients died of overdoses. Narendra Nagareddy,...

Police say Daniel Holtzclaw targeted his victims while patrolling neighborhoods.

Convicted killer Denis Hennessy has been jailed for four months after scaling the Palace wall before asking: "Is Ma'am in?".

Who's harder to mark? Ronaldo or Messi? And could Bayern Munich win the Premier League if they played in England? Bayern Munich star Jerome Boateng talks football with CNN.

The Britons fleeing Australia's traffic and TV

A former Toledo, Ohio firefighter and his son were arraigned Thursday for allegedly kidnapping a 13-year-old relative and keeping her chained up in a basement for as long as a year.

Members of the United Nations Security Council are urging Kenya's government not to forcibly evict refugees from a sprawling camp that is home to hundreds of thousands of Somalis

Spanish authorities say three French people were killed when the light aircraft they were flying crashed in a small northern town after reportedly colliding with a vulture

Health officials say they have confirmed that the Zika virus in Cape Verde island off the western coast of Africa is the same one infecting people in the Americas. …

The move paves the way for the trials of several pro-Kurdish and other legislators.

NATO foreign ministers and alliance partners have agreed to extend the Resolute Support mission that trains, advises and assists Afghanistan's security forces and institutions beyond 2016. …

The military is scouring a wide area south of the Greek island of Crete.

Staying in the EU could increase the UK's population by up to 5.23m by 2030, Vote Leave has claimed, putting the NHS under "unsustainable" pressure.

Two teenage girls - including one who had been faking a pregnancy - are detained for conspiring to kidnap three babies.

Blake Shelton can't stop gushing over his girlfriend, Gwen Stefani.