The United Nations is mounting a major aid operation to try and help more than half a million people who have fled for their lives from extremist Islamic State (IS) fighters in northern Iraq. Aid will be delivered by air, road and sea, starting on Wednesday.

The United Nations is mounting a major aid operation to try and help more than half a million people who have fled for their lives from extremist Islamic State (IS) fighters in northern Iraq. Aid will be delivered by air, road and sea, starting on Wednesday.

British tycoon Richard Branson plans to succeed where countless politicians, diplomats and a cavalcade of sanctions have so far failed by marshaling international business leaders to bring peace to Ukraine. In a statement published Wednesday on his blog, ...

Billionaire Richard Branson said he's seeking an audience with President Vladimir Putin as business leaders call for a peaceful end to the conflict in Ukraine amid concern that Russia may invade its neighbour. Branson was joined by 15 businesspeople ...

American fighter jets and drones conducted nearly a dozen airstrikes in Iraq since Tuesday, a U.S. official said, even as Islamic State militants threatened to kill a second American captive in retribution for any continued attacks. The strikes came in the hours ...

The importance of the demands of the Palestinians in the Cairo talks was the topic that dominated the headlines of the region's papers. The UAE's Al Bayan said that any agreement made with Israel must include benefits for the Palestinians. “Any agreement ...

Islamic State militants released a video Tuesday purporting to show the beheading of American journalist James Foley in an act of retribution for U.S. airstrikes on the group in Iraq, raising new dangers for President Obama's Middle East policy. WSJ's Tamer ...

MONROVIA, LIBERIA - AUGUST 20: Members of Liberia's Ebola Task Force enforce a quarantine on the West Point slum on August 20, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. The military began enforcing a quarantine on West Point, a congested favela of 75,000, fearing ...

Several dozen protesters gathered and chanted Wednesday in front of a county courthouse near Ferguson, Missouri, where a grand jury was expected to begin hearing evidence in the police killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. More than a ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian yoga guru BKS Iyengar, who built a global following that included violin maestro Yehudi Menuhin and novelist Aldous Huxley, died on Wednesday, his website said. He was 95. “Generations will remember Shri BKS Iyengar as ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian yoga guru BKS Iyengar, who built a global following that included violin maestro Yehudi Menuhin and novelist Aldous Huxley, died on Wednesday, his website said. He was 95. “Generations will remember Shri BKS Iyengar as ...

Yes Nicki Minaj's “Anaconda” video is booty-ful in every way, but don't let the all the ass shots fool you, Ms. Minaj's latest clip is just as much about living a healthy lifestyle as it about her backside. It's not Nicki's fault if you missed the medicine hidden inside of ...

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 5, 2014, a woman has her passport photos taken outside the passport office in Harare. People queue for hours before the offices open in the hope of securing a passport that will allow them to escape their country's dearth of ...

When former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager, pro-golfer Rory McIlroy, San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh and philanthropist Woody Johnson nominated President George W. Bush for the ice bucket challenge to strike out ALS, the former ...

Barcelona's appeal to overturn a two-window transfer ban has failed. The original ban was handed to the Catalan club in April due to concerns over the "international transfer of minors". The club's decision to appeal meant they could sign players this summer ...

Liberian security forces have sealed off a seaside slum in the capital Monrovia in the latest effort to stop the spread of Ebola, setting off protests by angry residents. Also in this Section. Chan 'shame' over son's drug arrest · Apple stock reaches new high ...

Thousands of people around the world are dumping ice water over their heads. They're recording it and posting it to social media sites. From Justin Bieber to Rob Ford and Bill Gates to Oprah — they've all taken the ALS ice bucket challenge to raise ...

Officials on Wednesday said that a YouTube video depicting the death of journalist James Foley is legitimate. A still shot from a YouTube video released Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014,. A still shot from a YouTube video released Tuesday shows an Islamic State ...

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel's emergence as a leader in efforts to resolve Ukraine's crisis — showcased by a visit to Kiev this weekend — underlines Germany's increasing ambition to transform itself from economic power to diplomatic ...

Israel retaliated with airstrikes Tuesday in Gaza after Palestinian militants fired three rockets into southern Israel, bringing a swift end to a temporary truce. Peace talks in Cairo to end the month-long war collapsed as Israeli officials withdrew their ...