Grim news came for Britain on Tuesday as the number of confirmed British fatalities in last week's terror attack at a Tunisia beach resort climbed to 21.
A man aboard a bullet train in Japan is believed to have poured a flammable liquid over himself and set it alight, starting a fire that killed him and another passenger, police said Tuesday.
The mother of detained teen blogger Amos Yee has written a heartfelt apology letter to her son, as he faces years in "reformative training" after being jailed for a Youtube video where he criticized Singapore's founding politician.
At least 49 bodies have been recovered from the site where a military transport plane crashed in Medan, Indonesia, the Indonesian air force commander, Air Marshal Agus Supriatna, told reporters Tuesday.
Two years after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff scrapped a state visit to the White House, she and President Barack Obama will try to make amends on Tuesday.
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Safaa Elias Jajo, a Chaldean man in his 40s, stands in the wreckage of a home in Telskuf in Iraq's Nineveh province. The home served as ISIS headquarters in this area until a U.S.-led coalition airstrike leveled it last year.
An unmanned SpaceX rocket on a resupply mission to the International Space Station exploded minutes after its launch. SpaceX said that an "anomaly" had caused the rocket to fail.
Israeli officials said Monday that the country's military had blocked a ship trying to break the blockade of Gaza, boarding it in international waters, arresting people on board, and directing it to dock in an Israeli port.
Throughout the interminable Greek-euro crisis, it has been almost axiomatic that keeping Greece inside the euro, and thus preserving the integrity of the single currency, is a core aim. Yet in the game of chicken between Syriza-led Greece and the more hawkish creditors in the eurozone, it has become increasingly clear that the latter are ready to ditch the Greeks if necessary.
Greece may be on the brink of striking a deal to avert short-term financial catastrophe, but with economic problems unlikely to go away, is now the time to start rethinking Greek travel plans?
Brazil's hopes of restoring national pride after its disastrous 2014 World Cup exit were cruelly dashed after losing a penalty shootout to Paraquay to exit the Copa America Saturday at the quarterfinal stage.
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Although the gay pride parade has happened in peace for at least two decades in Istanbul, on Sunday the parade was interrupted by police who fired pepper spray and plastic pellets at thousands when they showed up to march.
The nightmare of 2011 is over for Carlos Tevez, who closed the loop on one of his most painful football memories by putting Argentina into the Copa America semifinals after a dramatic penalty shootout against Colombia.
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Kuwait's Interior Ministry said Sunday that it had identified the suicide bomber who blew himself up at a mosque as a Saudi citizen, according to the official Kuwait News Agency.
In one several-hour time period on Friday, the world saw jihadist terror attacks on three continents: In Europe, in North Africa and in the Middle East.
Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Saturday morning in Vienna as the representatives for the two countries worked toward finalizing a nuclear deal.
Asteroid Day is on June 30, and around the world local organizers are coming together to bring awareness of the potential threat of near-Earth asteroids.
While many die from extreme heat across the border in Pakistan, monsoon rains in an Indian state known for its diamonds have also wiped out much that is precious -- gemstones, homes and dozens of lives.
The U.S. effort to take out senior ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and other top ISIS officials is increasingly focusing on Raqqa, Syria, the self-declared capital of ISIS, CNN has learned.