Hong Kong's security chief says some police officers who were captured on video kicking a democracy protester during an operation to clear demonstrators from a tunnel have been...

A Japan Airlines flight had to return to Honolulu after a male passenger sexually assaulted a female passenger in the airplane's bathroom, the FBI said. FBI agents arrested Michael...

A terror suspect was considering an indiscriminate Mumbai-style attack and had an address for Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, the Old Bailey has heard. Erol Incedal plotted to attack a...

Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State say they have recaptured a strategically important hilltop west of Kobane on Syria's border with Turkey. The advance came as the US said it had conducted...

Conservative Catholic bishops distanced themselves Tuesday from a document showing an unprecedented opening toward gays and divorced people, saying it doesn't reflect their views and vowing to make...

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla have donated $25 million to the Centres for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola. On a Facebook post, Mr Zuckerberg said; "The Ebola...

A World Health Organization official says the death rate in the current Ebola outbreak has increased to 70 percent. WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward gave the figure during a news...

The leader of Spain's wealthy Catalonia region on Tuesday called off an independence vote but said an unofficial poll will take place next month to gauge secessionist sentiment. Artur Mas was...

Oscar Pistorius was being portrayed as a "poor victim" ahead of his sentencing for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the chief prosecutor said Tuesday. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel was...

Hong Kong police cleared more barricades Tuesday from pro-democracy protest zones that have choked off traffic in key business districts for more than two weeks, signaling authorities' growing...