A Russian convoy, carrying what Moscow says is humanitarian aid, has resumed its journey toward war-torn eastern Ukraine. The convoy of nearly 300 trucks left the southwestern Russian town of Voronezh Thursday, where it had stalled as controversy ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, who was making his first run for the presidency, died Wednesday in a plane crash. A lifelong socialist, Campos was born on Aug. 10, 1965 in ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Pope Francis' choice of wheels during his five-day South Korean visit has surprised many in this painfully self-conscious country, where big-shots rarely hit the streets in anything but expensive luxury cars. After his arrival ...

A United States mission to evacuate Iraqi civilians trapped on a mountain by Sunni militant fighters is far less likely after a US assessment team sent there on Wednesday found the humanitarian situation not as grave as expected, the Pentagon said. A team of ...

The sun sets over the northern Gaza Strip as seen from the Israeli border August 9, 2014. Cairo, Egypt: Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Wednesday to extend a Gaza truce by five days minutes before an earlier ceasefire was set to expire, a Palestinian ...

The late Lauren Bacall and I lunched together at the Caprice in St James's in the Eighties, when she was in town to make a Ruth Rendell thriller, Tree of Hands. “I always choose the restaurant when I do interviews,” she briskly informed me. “Then I know that ...

The casts of Aladdin — both the 1992 film and the current Broadway hit — are honouring Robin Williams, who played the manic, fast-talking, unforgettable Genie. Scot Weinger, who played Aladdin in the animated film, said on Wednesday that working with ...

A Russian aid convoy resumed its travels toward Ukraine early Thursday and took the road leading south toward the rebel-held city of Luhansk. The convoy of about 262 vehicles had been parked at a military depot in the southern Russian city of Voronezh ...

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, fired several rounds of tear gas to disperse protesters late last night, on the fourth night of demonstrations over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer. Clouds of smoke lingered above an area hit with ...

Violence erupted in the streets of Ferguson, Mo. for a fourth straight night Wednesday, with police firing smoke bombs and tear gas at demonstrators and some people lobbing Molotov cocktails. Racial unrest lingers in the St. Louis suburb following a weekend ...

Iran's president has heaped praised upon Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian professor at Stanford University who has become the first woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal, also known as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics.” “I congratulate you on winning the ...

Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas have agreed a new five-day truce in the Gaza Strip. Despite a shaky start, a few hours after it came into force, the latest ceasefire appeared to be holding. Israelische Soldaten Nahostkonflikt 13.8.2014. The latest ...

A snappy YouTube video marking India's Independence Day relives the country's modern history in just over a minute – but the film's jaunty tone belies heightened tensions in South Asia. Relating India's post-colonial past in the form of an extended Facebook ...

The United States has reportedly said that it is unlikely to launch a rescue operation to evacuate the Iraqis trapped by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants on Mount Sinjar. The Pentagon said in a statement that security forces hads observed that ...

Pope Francis was met by Park Geun-hye, the president of South Korea, and families of the victims of the April sinking of the ferry Sewol after he landed at an air base outside Seoul on Thursday morning. The Pope, who is the first pontiff to visit South Korea ...

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden discussed more details about the National Security Agency's past and plans with Wired, revealing that the United States was (inadvertently) behind a famous take-down of Syria's Internet and is planning on creating a ...

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden discussed more details about the National Security Agency's past and plans with Wired, revealing that the United States was (inadvertently) behind a famous take-down of Syria's Internet and is planning on creating a ...

A November 9, 2009 file photo of actor Robin Williams with his wife Susan Schneider at the premiere of 'Old Dogs' in Los Angeles. Photo: Katy Winn. Los Angeles - The daughter of Robin Williams quit social media on Wednesday, upset by Internet trolls and ...

A white truck with humanitarian aid is driven from Voronezh towards Rostov-on-Don, Russia, early Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Russia on Tuesday dispatched some hundreds of trucks, although only a small proportion were counted in this convoy, covered in ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — An 18-year-old shot and killed near a Ferguson apartment complex Saturday afternoon had no criminal record, according to the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's office. According to police, Brown pushed a Ferguson Police ...