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A Muslim man walking to the entrance of a Houston, Texas, mosque for 5:30 a.m. prayer services was ambushed and shot by three people Sunday morning. The victim, a doctor, has been taken to the hospital and is expected to...

Sheikha Hasina implores fighters to "stop killing in the name of religion" after 20 foreigners were slain at a cafe.

David Nyorkor lost his family to Ebola and his leg to a misdiagnosis in a hospital overwhelmed by the epidemic.

In Europe and the West, Islamic State operatives have been instructed to kill at random, but more care is seemingly taken to plan attacks in majority-Muslim nations like Bangladesh.

Bombs went off early Sunday in two crowded commercial areas in Baghdad, killing at least 23 people and wounding 61, according to hospital and police officials. …

Three days of heavy rain in southern China have left 50 people dead and another 12 missing and destroyed thousands of homes, authorities said Sunday, as areas along the Yangtze River braced for more floods. …

Prime minister says Australians could be forced to wait until the end of next week to find out who is in charge of their government after a knife-edge national election raised the prospect of a hung parliament

Prayers were offered at a vigil for the children killed, surviving son and their mother who is charged in their deaths with four counts of first degree murder while committing aggravated child neglect

Egypt's government-sanctioned human rights body says it has received reports of torture and forced disappearances, reflecting the findings of local and international human rights groups. …

The nightmare isn't over yet for the victims of the July 2012 mass shooting in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater. Thirty survivors and family members of those killed in the tragedy -- which took place at a Cinemark multipl...

Syrian President Bashar Assad has issued a presidential decree forming a new Syrian government following parliament elections that were held in April. …

Officials say a car bomb exploded overnight in one of the busiest districts of Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, killing at least two police officers and injuring seven other people

How could the unprecedented opportunity and intense stress of the Rio Games affect the team's 10 athletes?

Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency says a ship carrying over 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip has reached the Israeli port of Ashdod

Dutch ministers don't seem to mind bending the laws to incorporate territory to Israel that does not belong to it.

Residents in a southern Chinese town say they have spontaneously taken to the streets in their thousands to protest an incinerator project they fear will contaminate the air and drinking water

Pakistani officials say flash floods overnight have killed 30 people in northern Pakistan, near the Afghan border

The Bangladeshi government is adamant that ISIS has no presence in the country.

Thailand is smitten with Japan: Sushi restaurants fill the malls, Issey Miyake bags are all the rage and Thai tourists are flocking to Japan to visit a country admired as a role model _ an orderly, advanced economy with ...

Police are warning the city could see one of its most violent and deadly holiday weekends on record

Authorities say they're investigating why a small plane landed on a busy interstate north of Minnesota's Twin Cities.

Muslim women have launched a campaign to end Islamic legal practice allowing men to divorce their wives by simply saying "I divorce you" three times