UNITED NATIONS, United States - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday expressed his "concern" over a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic...
UNITED NATIONS, United States - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday expressed his "concern" over a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic...
Members of the Mexican Army and forensic personnel outside the house where a family -- including six children -- was killed, in the...
Activists rally for the victims of the Peshawar school massacre, in Lahore ISLAMABAD - Pakistani leaders have agreed to establish military courts for...
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis spoke by telephone to Iraqis living in a displaced people's camp near the main Kurdish city Arbil on...
PANAMA CITY - Some 1,000 workers on a project to expand the Panama Canal were on strike Wednesday to demand better safety and...
BERKELEY, United States - Officials scrambled to head off renewed anger Wednesday after an armed black teenager was shot dead by a white...
A man walks past blood stains and rubble after twin suicide blasts at Kantin Kwari textile market in the northern Nigerian city of...
Mashco Piro indigenous man sharpens his machete LIMA - An isolated Peruvian village in the Amazon rainforest that came under attack by bow-and-arrow...
MANAGUA - A police crackdown on hundreds of Nicaraguan farmers protesting the construction of a $50 billion canal across their land left two...
JOHANNESBURG - South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday denied media local reports that he has hinted he may be ready to take...
French far-right Front National (FN) party's vice-president and member of the European Parliament, Florian Philippot visits a Christmas market on the Champs Elysees...
MOMBASA, Kenya - A Kenyan court Wednesday charged a suspected kingpin of the illegal ivory trade, described as an "environmental criminal", with smuggling...
MONROVIA - A fourth member of the UN mission in Liberia, the country hardest-hit by the Ebola epidemic, has been hospitalised after testing...
HAVANA - Cubans prepared Wednesday to celebrate Christmas, a resurgent holiday banned for 38 years by the communist government, with an early gift...
SIMFEROPOL - Crimea on Wednesday suffered massive blackouts after Ukraine unexpectedly stopped supplies, sparking traffic jams, hospital closures and panic across the peninsula....
Israel strikes Gaza, killing militant after soldier shot GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories - Israel launched an air strike in southern Gaza on Wednesday...
Ukrainian soldiers guard one of many checkpoints in Ukrainian town Mariupol, eastern Ukraine MINSK - Ukranian and rebel envoys resumed intense talks on...
A picture shows Ukrainian solider raising a National flag at the headquarters of anti-terrorist operation (ATO) near Izyum of Kharkiv area KIEV - ...
