MEXICO-DRUG LORD MEXICO CITY — Mexican marines had barely faced down .50-caliber sniper guns and a loaded grenade launcher to recapture the world's most notorious drug lord when people...

A man using a gun stolen from police said he was acting in the name of Islam when he ambushed an officer sitting in his marked cruiser at an intersection, firing more than a dozen shots at point-blank...

North Korea warned of war as South Korea on Saturday continued blasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the rivals' tense border in retaliation for the North's purported fourth nuclear...

Gunmen opened fire at the entrance of a hotel used by foreign tourists in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, a few minutes ago, security sources said.The assailants arrived by sea to carry...

Mexican authorities have recaptured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, six months after he escaped from a maximum-security jail. In a post on Twitter, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said:...

Clashes between a joint Turkish-Iraqi force and Islamic State militants near a training camp outside the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have left at least 18 IS fighters dead, officials said...

A lawyer tasked with investigating allegations of abuse at a Catholic children's choir in southern Germany says he has documented 231 allegations ranging from beatings to rape. Ulrich Weber says...

Swedish police say at least 15 young women have reported being groped by groups of men on New Year's Eve in the city of Kalmar. The Swedish reports follow a string of sex assaults and robberies...

A Belgian prosecutor says investigators have searched an apartment in Brussels they believe served as bomb factory for the Paris attacks. Federal prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said Friday the same...

An Islamic State affiliate in eastern Libya is claiming responsibility for Thursday's suicide truck bomb attack targeting a police base in the town of Zliten. In a statement posted on the Twitter...