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 ...

MONROVIA, LIBERIA - AUGUST 13: Liberian Foreign Affairs Minister Augustine Ngafuan (L), brings boxes of an experimental Ebola-fighting drug ZMapp on a Delta Airlines flight from New York's JFK airport to Monrovia on August 13, 2014 in Monrovia, ...

An operation to evacuate besieged Iraqi Yazidis “is far less likely” thanks to the effects of humanitarian aid and airstrikes, the Pentagon said this evening. Defense officials reached that conclusion after about 20 U.S. troops and aid workers flew today to Mount ...

Aiming to release more details on what happened the day of the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, the hacking collective publishes hours of alleged police dispatch tapes on Twitter and YouTube. by Dara Kerr · @darakerr; 14 August 2014 12:31 ...

BAGHDAD — The handwritten letter from Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani was personally signed and stamped, and for Iraq's embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, it spelled the end. “I see the need to speed up the selection of a new prime minister who has ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From an eccentric alien to an animated blue genie, a loveable British nanny and a fatherly therapist, actor Robin Williams used his multi-layered brand of comedy to make people laugh. But behind the boyish exuberance and ...

Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) –– Bloomberg's Willem Marx discusses the latest on the truce between Israel and Hamas and how businesses on the Gaza border have been affected. He speaks on “Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg). Please enable JavaScript to view ...

In a throwback to the Cold War years, the US and Russia are shadow-boxing over Ukraine. Moscow had won the first round with the holding of the referendum and the annexation of Crimea. The unfortunate downing of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, with ...