U.S. and British spy agencies intercepted and stored images from the webcams of millions of likely innocent Yahoo users, including “large quantities” of sexually explicit images, the Guardian reported Thursday -- a revelation the web giant described as “a ...

Director, writer and cast member Seth Rogen waves at the premiere of "This Is the End" at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles, California June 3, 2013. The movie opens in the U.S. on June 12. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: ...

Ukraine's parliament has approved Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the country's new prime minister. The vote was held Thursday amid the sharp rise in tensions in the southern Crime region, where gunmen seized local government buildings and raised a Russian flag.

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Police in Somalia's capital say a suicide car bomb blast at a tea shop near the country's intelligence agency has killed at least eight people. Police Capt. Mohammed Hussein said the death toll was eight. The tea shop is frequented by ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – Scientists investigating a graveyard of marine mammal fossils near Chile's northern coast say toxins generated by algae blooms most likely poisoned the animals millions of years ago. The study by a team of Chilean and Smithsonian ...

BEIRUT – State media in Syria says army troops have killed 175 rebels in an ambush south of the capital, Damascus. Syrian state news agency SANA reported Wednesday that the attack happened at dawn in the opposition-held area of eastern Ghouta.

After narrow escapes from the military, law enforcement and rivals over 13 years on the run, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is back in Mexican custody. Now, what is likely to be a lengthy and complicated legal process to decide which country gets to try him first ...

Nearly a full day after Ukrainian President Viktor Yankovych departed his country's capital, Kiev, leaving it to the protesters who have called for his removal for three months and the parliament that voted to do just that Saturday, no one seems to know where he ...

KIEV, Ukraine – The whereabouts of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych are unclear, a day after he left the capital and his arch-foe Yulia Tymoshenko was freed from prison and returned to Kiev to address a massive, adoring crowd. Ukrainian news ...

CARACAS, Venezuela – Moments before his dramatic arrest, opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez told a sea of white-shirted supporters that he doesn't fear years behind bars if that's what it takes to open eyes to the damage done to Venezuela by 15 years of ...

ALGIERS, Algeria – Algeria's civil defense has reduced the death toll in Tuesday's crash of a military transport by one to 76, with a sole survivor suffering from head injuries. Lt. Nassim Bernaoui of Algerian Civil Defense said Wednesday there were a total of ...

"Flappy Bird" fans, have no fear -- your favorite app has found a new nest. Gamers cried fowl when the creator of the highly addictive mobile app "Flappy Bird" plucked the game from the App Store and Google Play, saying his creation "ruin[ed] [my] simple life.".

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Saying it needed to prevent inbreeding, the Copenhagen Zoo killed a 2-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions as visitors watched, ignoring a petition signed by thousands and offers from other zoos and a private individual to ...