BAGHDAD — Government forces and allied Sunni tribal fighters battled to dislodge militants from a small town along the Tigris River on Monday, while authorities discovered 12 bloated bodies with gunshots to the head near a village north of the capital, ...

Gaza City: Efforts towards a ceasefire between Israel and its Islamist foe Hamas are underway, but no deal has been reached yet, a Hamas official told AFP on Monday. "There are efforts and communications on the issue of a truce deal but until now there is ...

Gaza City: Efforts towards a ceasefire between Israel and its Islamist foe Hamas are underway, but no deal has been reached yet, a Hamas official told AFP on Monday. "There are efforts and communications on the issue of a truce deal but until now there is ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Citigroup has agreed to pay $7 billion to settle a federal investigation into its handling of risky subprime mortgages, admitting to a pattern of deception that Attorney General Eric Holder said "shattered lives" and contributed to the worst ...

CRESSKILL – Comedian Tracy Morgan flashed a victory symbol and spoke briefly in public Monday for the first time since a deadly crash on the NJ Turnpike killed his friend and left him seriously injured. Morgan told news photographers gathered outside his ...

CRESSKILL – Comedian Tracy Morgan flashed a victory symbol and spoke briefly in public Monday for the first time since a deadly crash on the NJ Turnpike killed his friend and left him seriously injured. Morgan told news photographers gathered outside his ...

CRESSKILL – Comedian Tracy Morgan flashed a victory symbol and spoke briefly in public Monday for the first time since a deadly crash on the NJ Turnpike killed his friend and left him seriously injured. Morgan told news photographers gathered outside his ...

Nadine Gordimer was first a writer of fiction and a defender of creativity and expression. But as a white South African who hated apartheid's dehumanisation of blacks, she was also a determined political activist in the struggle to end white minority rule in her ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England voted on Monday to allow women to become bishops, a historic decision which overturns centuries of tradition in a Church that has been deeply divided over the issue. Two years ago, a similar proposal failed ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England voted on Monday to allow women to become bishops, a historic decision which overturns centuries of tradition in a Church that has been deeply divided over the issue. Two years ago, a similar proposal failed ...

Manchester United's relationship with Nike finally hit rock bottom when the Barclays Premier League club began displaying branding from rivals manufacturers at their Carrington training ground earlier this year. As the club announced today that their long ...

Manchester United's relationship with Nike finally hit rock bottom when the Barclays Premier League club began displaying branding from rivals manufacturers at their Carrington training ground earlier this year. As the club announced today that their long ...

Vincenzo Nibali won Monday's Bastille Day 10th stage of the Tour de France to reclaim the leader's yellow jersey as two-time former winner Alberto Contador abandoned the race with a broken leg. Italy's Vincenzo Nibali sprints to win the 161.50 km tenth ...

Vincenzo Nibali won Monday's Bastille Day 10th stage of the Tour de France to reclaim the leader's yellow jersey as two-time former winner Alberto Contador abandoned the race with a broken leg. Italy's Vincenzo Nibali sprints to win the 161.50 km tenth ...

Women bishops could be ordained by the end of the year after the Church of England allowed them to be appointed for the first time in history. The General Synod gave final approval to legislation introducing the change by the required two-thirds majority.

LAGOS, Nigeria—A new video shows the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram crowing over recent victories including two explosions at a fuel depot in Lagos. It would be the first reported bombing by Boko Haram in Lagos—Nigeria's ...

LAGOS, Nigeria—A new video shows the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram crowing over recent victories including two explosions at a fuel depot in Lagos. It would be the first reported bombing by Boko Haram in Lagos—Nigeria's ...

Citigroup Inc. (C:US) led financial stocks higher after better-than-expected trading revenue and lower credit costs helped second-quarter profit beat analysts' estimates and the company resolved a mortgage-related probe. Citigroup climbed 3.7 percent to ...

The best team won the 2014 World Cup. Sometimes Germany won its games early—it scored the winning goal in its semifinal against Brazil in the 11th minute; it scored it in the 13th minute of its quarterfinal against France. Sometimes it won its games late—in ...

MOSCOW — Russia's political establishment intensified calls to answer a weekend cross-border shelling incident with targeted strikes on Ukraine, as investigators said Monday that they could prove Ukrainian forces had deliberately attacked Russian territory.