Scores of heavily armed paramilitaries stormed the Donetsk headquarters of Ukraine's pro-Russia separatists on Thursday, kicking out the rebel leaders and announcing a new order in the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic. Armed with ...

Eight-time champion Rafael Nadal improved his French Open record to 61-1 after beating big-hitting Dominic Thiem of Austria 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday. The Spaniard's only defeat at Roland Garros was in the fourth round against Robin Soderling five years ...

PAKISTAN'S prime minister has demanded “immediate action” over the stoning death of a pregnant woman outside a courthouse, as her husband revealed in a grisly twist that he strangled his first wife. Farzana Parveen was murdered on Tuesday outside the ...

With her sultry voice as distinct as her life as her poetry as her courage, Maya Angelou gave voice to her life and to millions of others' lives. She wrote her way through healing and ascended to a level of profound accomplishment – and humility. Maya Angelou ...

While Gap and all the other activewear companies are really hoping Americans never take their leggings off, Qatar is trying to push for tourists visiting their country to do the opposite. According to Racked, Qatar has launched a campaign called “Reflect Your ...

While Gap and all the other activewear companies are really hoping Americans never take their leggings off, Qatar is trying to push for tourists visiting their country to do the opposite. According to Racked, Qatar has launched a campaign called “Reflect Your ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has taken notice of incident of 25year-old woman who was stoned to death by her family outside the Lahore High Court on Tuesday for marrying the man of her choice. He said the occurrence of this despicable ...

New York stock exchange, GDP The pullback in GDP is the first major economic contraction since 2001? Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters. Is the US economy on the cusp of great growth? Or is it being pulled back into a morass of recession?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will travel next month to Colombia and the Dominican Republic to discuss regional ties with leaders in those Latin American nations. Biden is adding the two stops on to a previously ...

Who invited this guy? Ukrainian journalist Vitalii Sediuk has made a name for himself on the red carpet -- just not for any of the right reasons. Vitalii Sediuk attacks Brad Pitt at 'Maleficent' premiere, 2014.

Pro-independence militia downed a Ukrainian military helicopter on Thursday killing a general and at least 11 troops even as Russia demanded that Kiev stop a “fratricidal war” in Ukraine's Russian-speaking southeast. A Mi-8 transport helicopter was shot ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - MAY 29: Speller Jacob Daniel Williamson (L) of Cape Coral, Florida, celebrates after he has advanced to the final rounds of the 2014 Scripps National Spelling Bee competition May 29, 2014 in National Harbor, Maryland. Twelve ...

Ending weeks of rumors, Apple announced Wednesday that it would be buying popular audio products manufacturer Beats Electronics and its fledgling music service business Beats Music for about $3 billion, making it the largest acquisition in the company's ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's leader vowed on Thursday to "do everything possible to bring our daughters home," referring to the mass abduction of more than 300 schoolgirls, and said that the Islamic extremists who kidnapped them threaten the country's ...

A day after the temporary Facebook outage in Thailand, questions remain over the cause. The WSJ's Ramy Inocencio speaks with Newley Purnell in Bangkok about the importance of social media in Thailand's political travails. BANGKOK—A gathering that ...

Nadal, bidding to be the first man to clinch five Roland Garros titles in a row, took his career record in Paris to 61 wins against a single loss. PHOTO: AFP. PARIS: Defending champion Rafael Nadal handed out a bruising lesson to highly-rated Austrian ...

For some contestants, spelling is all in the family. Two of the kids competing in tonight's Scripps National Spelling Bee finals are following in the footsteps of older siblings who won the competition in an earlier year. It sounds like a lot of pressure, but it's ...

29 May 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon mourned the death of celebrated African-American poet and author Maya Angelou, saying the United Nations owed her a particular debt of gratitude for the moving poem she wrote for the world body's 50th ...

29 May 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon mourned the death of celebrated African-American poet and author Maya Angelou, saying the United Nations owed her a particular debt of gratitude for the moving poem she wrote for the world body's 50th ...

29 May 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon mourned the death of celebrated African-American poet and author Maya Angelou, saying the United Nations owed her a particular debt of gratitude for the moving poem she wrote for the world body's 50th ...