U.S.-backed forces in Libya have liberated "70 percent" of the city of Sirte, the Islamic State group's last bastion in the North African country, after seizing several strategic locations...

 A wave of coordinated explosions rattled multiple cities across southern Thailand, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more, police said Friday. Among the injured were 10...

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A Canadian man previously banned from associating with Islamic State extremists has been killed as Canada's national police force thwarted what they believed was a suicide bomb plot, a...

The 10-year-old boy killed during a ride on the world's tallest waterslide was decapitated in the accident, a person familiar with the investigation said. Authorities have yet to explain how it...

Fires whipped by high winds ravaged swaths of southern France and Portugalon Wednesday, killing at least four people, burning scores of homes and forcing the evacuation of thousands, including...

A man who wanted an "audience" with Donald Trump spent three hours scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower on Wednesday using large suction cups, climbing as high as the 21st...

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A fire erupted overnight at a Baghdad hospital and killed 11 newborn babies, an Iraqi spokesman said Wednesday, a deadly blaze that was caused by electrical wiring. The blaze broke out...

The editor of Italian sports newspaper QS Quotidiano Sportivo was dismissed on Tuesday for running a headline calling Italy's female archers the "chubby trio" after the team narrowly missed bronze in...