NAIROBI, Kenya — The lawyer for a radical Islamic leader, who had been sanctioned by the United States and the United Nations for supporting the al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab, says his client has been assassinated.

Brussels - Conflict, illegal migration and fears of more jihadist turmoil look set to dominate a mammoth summit gathering leaders of some 80 African and European Union states in Brussels on Wednesday. More than three years after now defunct Libyan leader ...

(CNN) -- An outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in west Africa has spread to Guinea's capital and beyond its borders in an "an unprecedented epidemic," a leading aid agency reported Monday. A total of 122 patients are suspected of contracting Ebola and ...

A screen grab of Google'€™s new mini-game for its Maps mobile app is seen. (Google Maps/YouTube). This April Fools' Day, prepare to spend a lot of time scrolling over the Pacific Ocean on your Google Maps smartphone app. It's one of the many worldwide ...

A screen grab of Google'€™s new mini-game for its Maps mobile app is seen. (Google Maps/YouTube). This April Fools' Day, prepare to spend a lot of time scrolling over the Pacific Ocean on your Google Maps smartphone app. It's one of the many worldwide ...

Leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Badie, bottom center, and senior Brotherhood figurer Salah Soltan, right, gesture, during an appearance at a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Badie has called from his cage on judges to ...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas signed a request to join several UN agencies on Tuesday, in a move that could derail a US push to revive faltering peace talks with Israel. “The Palestinian leadership has unanimously ...

For a while now — post the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit to be precise — the climate change story lost its way since most nations have been busy grappling with the economic downturn. Taking advantage of the lull — and a certain level of public ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday the Western alliance had suspended all military and civilian cooperation with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, but that political dialogue remained open. "We are ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday the Western alliance had suspended all military and civilian cooperation with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, but that political dialogue remained open. "We are ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday the Western alliance had suspended all military and civilian cooperation with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, but that political dialogue remained open. "We are ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday the Western alliance had suspended all military and civilian cooperation with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, but that political dialogue remained open. "We are ...

The top leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood accused Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief widely tipped to become the country's next president, of being a tyrant and predicted he would fail to stay in power. Speaking on Tuesday from a cage in a ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union formally launched a peacekeeping force for Central African Republic on Tuesday, overcoming delays due to shortages of soldiers and equipment thanks to last-minute offers of help from EU governments.

This picture taken on Saturday, March 1, 2014, shows Syrian citizens trying to extinguish flames rising from buildings which were attacked by a Syrian government forces airstrike in the town of Kfar Takharim in the northwest province of Idlib, Syria.

A 17-year-old from New York has been accepted to study at all eight of the elite universities that make up the US Ivy League. Kwasi Enin, from the Long Island hamlet of Shirley, began receiving replies to his college applications on 27 March. The student from ...

Russian gas giant Gazprom's CEO, Alexei Miller, attending the world biggest gas company's annual meeting in Moscow on June 28. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. BRUSSELS—Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller met the European Union's energy ...

Russian gas giant Gazprom's CEO, Alexei Miller, attending the world biggest gas company's annual meeting in Moscow on June 28. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. BRUSSELS—Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller met the European Union's energy ...

'Manuel Valls is a true French republican in the historical sense of the term, with his feet firmly on the left.' Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters. President François Hollande and his now sacked prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, never made a strong team.

Poultry experts baffled by square eggs: Daybreak reports live from a Freedom Food Farm, the first in the world to raise chickens that can lay square eggs. Fried egg sarnie anyone? Meanwhile, another farmer claims to have raised a six-legged lamb.