Two teenage girls carried out suicide bombings in a northern Cameroon village on Sunday, killing at least 9 and wounding 29 others, the country's government spokesman said, blaming Nigeria's Islamic...

Syrian troops backed by Russian airstrikes advanced against insurgents in the center of the country as President Vladimir Putin defended Moscow's intervention in the conflict, saying it would aid...

Iraq's air force says it struck a convoy carrying Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group. A statement Sunday said "the Iraqi air force carried out a heroic...

UNITED NATIONS-CUBA-EMBARGO UNITED NATIONS — The latest draft United Nations resolution urging the United States to end its economic embargo on Cuba has appeared — and it points out...

Nearly simultaneous explosions targeted a Turkish peace rally Saturday in Ankara, killing at least 95 people and wounding hundreds in Turkey's deadliest attack in years — one that threatens to...

Ten people from two Irish Gypsy families, half of them children, died Saturday when their mobile homes caught fire before dawn. Detectives said it was too early to determine a cause for Ireland's...

ormer British Treasury chief Geoffrey Howe, a longtime senior figure in the Conservative Party, has died at 88. Howe died suddenly of a suspected heart attack late Friday at his home in...

Glasgow-born singer Jim Diamond has died aged 63. The singer-songwriter was best known for hits including "I Won’t Let You Down", which he sang as the lead singer in the trio PhD, and...

Two bomb explosions apparently targeting a peace rally in Turkey's capital Ankara on Saturday has killed at least 86 people, a news agency and witnesses said. The explosions occurred minutes...

EU Parliament MEPs recently voted, in a non-legislative resolution, urging the EU Commission to table fresh legislation "providing for more effective means of supervising the implementation and...