The plans were announced alongside €500,000 in funding support for charities working with some of the most vulnerable casualties of the conflict. A spokesman for the Department of Justice said the decision to accept refugees from Iraq had only just been ...

Angus Houston: 'It's vital we go back when the environment becomes much more permissive.' Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP. No victims' remains were found at the MH17 crash site in the three days before Australian investigators pulled out of the area, ...

Scientists have discovered how the Ebola virus disables the body's immune response, in a discovery that should help the search for potential cures and vaccines. Share. Go To. Comments. Researchers from American institutions found that Ebola carries a ...

Scientists have discovered how the Ebola virus disables the body's immune response, in a discovery that should help the search for potential cures and vaccines. Share. Go To. Comments. Researchers from American institutions found that Ebola carries a ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP): Hollywood actor-director Ben Affleck has said he was “heartbroken” by the apparent suicide of his “Good Will Hunting” co-star Robin Williams. Williams, 63, was found dead with a belt around his neck Monday at his home outside San ...

Lauren Bacall, one of the last movie icons of Hollywood's golden age, has died. She was 89 years old. Her Hollywood career spanned seven decades, with a memorable debut aged 19 opposite her future husband, Humphrey Bogart, in To Have and Have ...

Lauren Bacall, one of the last movie icons of Hollywood's golden age, has died. She was 89 years old. Her Hollywood career spanned seven decades, with a memorable debut aged 19 opposite her future husband, Humphrey Bogart, in To Have and Have ...

Two reporters covering the shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer in a St. Louis suburb say they were arrested at a McDonald's Wednesday evening in the commercial corridor where angry protests have occurred. Wesley Lowery of The ...

JERUSALEM—White House and State Department officials who were leading U.S. efforts to rein in Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip were caught off guard last month when they learned that the Israeli military had been quietly securing supplies of ...

LAHORE: Zaman Park has undergone a world of change. It was once the epitome of the long-established order, the game of cricket being a cornerstone of the life of leisure that its inhabitants appeared to lead. Now this place is buzzing with chants of change.

MONROVIA, LIBERIA - AUGUST 13: People attend an Evangelical Christian church service on August 13, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. A Delta Airlines flight had just brought the Ebola-flighting experimental ZMapp drug, which the Liberian government says will ...

BRASILIA Aug 13 (Reuters) - The death of presidential candidate Eduardo Campos makes it even more likely Brazil's October election goes to a second round and could put President Dilma Rousseff under more pressure as she seeks a second term.

CAIRO — Palestinian leaders said early Thursday that in the last moments before the midnight expiration of their cease-fire with Israel in Gaza, the two sides had agreed to hold their fire for an additional five days to continue talks about a more durable truce.

The body of a 62-year-old American woman was found stuffed inside a suitcase on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, and authorities on Wednesday arrested her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend in relation to the death, police said.

FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - The police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager last weekend in Ferguson, Missouri, was injured in the incident that has sparked racially charged protests, the city's police chief said on Wednesday. Police Chief ...

The steepest fall in youth unemployment since records began offered welcome news for the recovery yesterday as the Bank of England gave a strong hint that interest rates would stay on hold at record lows into next year. Overall unemployment fell by 132 ...

The Pentagon says aid drops, airstrikes and the efforts of Peshmerga fighters have reduced the need for a rescue mission. 1:30am UK, Thursday 14 August 2014. Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic.

KUALA LUMPUR: The remains of First Officer Muhammad Firdaus Abdul Rahim was among those of the 16 Malaysian victims identified. His remains will be sent home next week. His uncle, Azman Ibrahim said MAS had informed the developments to the ...

AUGUST is a tragic month in Brazilian presidential politics. Sixty years ago Gétulio Vargas, a populist dictator turned democrat, committed suicide while in office. In 1976 Jucelino Kubitschek, who had built Brasília, the country's Utopian capital, was killed in a ...

NSA leaker Edward Snowden discloses in an extensive profile in Wired magazine that the U.S. government ran a top secret cyber-war program, which he claims could accidentally start a war. Gwen Ifill gets an update on Snowden and his latest revelations ...