AMMAN, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, a monitor that tracks violence in Syria said on…
Among the hundreds of shoppers there on a typical evening are the many Indonesian domestic servants — euphemistically called “helpers” — who share the tiny apartments with local families in…
In the year since the vanishing of MH370, I appeared on CNN more than 50 times, watched my spouse’s eyes glaze over at dinner, and fell in with a group…
The Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority backed a series of terrorist attacks in the early 2000s in Israel that killed or wounded Americans, a U.S. jury found Monday…
French president Francois Hollande said that the country must offer its protection and affection to the Jewish community as anti-Semitism is on the rise in France. “Jewish are at home…
Woolf played the character of Meep, a dwarf who only spoke with one word, on “American Horror Story: Freak Show.” – Woolf was 34 years old.
The Somali jihadi group Al-Shabaab grabbed headlines at the weekend when it released a video urging Muslims living in the United States, Britain and Canada to launch terrorist attacks against…
Then she went off to pursue violent jihad. Four days later, Aqsa called her parents as she crossed into Syria from its border with Turkey, on her way to join…
On the heels of screenwriter Graham Moore’s moving Oscars speech for his role in creating “The Imitation Game,” the family of the film’s protagonist, late mathematician Alan Turing, is demanding…
Privately the same year, the Israeli spy agency Mossad assessed the threat as more remote, according to reports by Al Jazeera and The Guardian newspaper, which both cited leaked intelligence…
Police in Hanahan, South Carolina, arrested Elsa from Disney’s “Frozen,” earlier this week, on suspicion of bringing an unusually frigid cold snap to the area. – See photos of Elsa’s…
A woman from the U.K., who rallied the Internet to raise money for a homeless man, has made a large donation to a local group committed to helping those in…
DONETSK, Ukraine — Pro-Russian rebels celebrated their recent victory at Debaltseve with a festive rally on Monday in Donetsk, the main city they control, where soldiers received medals in Lenin…
DONETSK, Ukraine — Pro-Russian rebels celebrated their recent victory at Debaltseve with a festive rally on Monday in Donetsk, the main city they control, where soldiers received medals in Lenin…
After a months-long battle with Cushing’s Disease, a retired K-9 officer named Judge was put to sleep last week — but not before 90 police officers could send him off…
PARIS — The French authorities began to use new, sweeping counterterrorism powers on Monday to halt the stream of young people going to Syria, confiscating the passports of six people…
It is beyond comprehension why Penn chose to make such a reference on a night where, literally, the whole world was watching. A green card, of course, confers lawful permanent…
It is beyond comprehension why Penn chose to make such a reference on a night where, literally, the whole world was watching. A green card, of course, confers lawful permanent…
When the U.S. military invaded Iraq just over a decade ago, it only had a handful of unmanned systems, aka drones, in the air, and zero deployed into the ground…
The statement from the Gulf Cooperation Council Monday echoed Hadi, with council members stressing that all procedures taken by the Houthi after their coup were invalid. According to two presidential…
Hadi escaped from the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday after being under house arrest for a month following his resignation under pressure from Houthi rebels. After his escape, he released a…
As the nation contemplates better ways to prevent sexual assault on college campuses, legislators and college administrators alike have recently offered some mind-bogglingly dumb ideas. One of them is California’s…
Binyamin Netanyahu’s dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iran was about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his own secret service, according to…
The Spanish driver’s manager Luis Garcia Abad tweeted a picture of Alonso smiling in a hospital bedless than 48 hours after a hair-raising smash at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Alonso’s…
After eight days of testimony, the trial of the “American Sniper’s” alleged killer has not answered the one question that still haunts the families of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield….
A broad range of issues, from immigration to suicide to Alzheimer’s disease to wage inequality, took center stage. Call your parents.
Pay women equally.
Behold the glory.
Stay weird, gay kids.
The #oscars…
Pakistani authorities have arrested a suspect in the December 16 attack on a public school in Peshawar that left more than 140 people dead, most of them children. – CNN’s…
When Jerusalem’s mayor saw a commotion on the street, he and his bodyguard jumped in to arrest a suspected assailant, he said. Mayor Nir Barkat was passing by in his…
When Jerusalem’s mayor saw a commotion on the street, he and his bodyguard jumped in to arrest a suspected assailant, he said. Mayor Nir Barkat was passing by in his…
When Jerusalem’s mayor saw a commotion on the street, he and his bodyguard jumped in to arrest a suspected assailant, he said. Mayor Nir Barkat was passing by in his…