The case of the South Korean Sewol ferry disaster has faded from headlines of late, but not for a lack of strange, unsettling developments. To summarize, here's what we knew about the case before this week: - The Sewol sank in April, killing a presumed 304 ...

Fouad Ma'soum, then head of Iraqi committee formed last week to draft procedure to the new constitution for Iraq, hold a meeting at Iraq's Governing Council's headquarters in Baghdad, 19 August, 2003. (SABAH ARAR/AFP/Getty Images). BAGHDAD (AP) ...

Employees load a container containing bodies of victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 at the airport in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on July 24, 2014. Planes carrying more bodies recovered from the MH17 crash site in Ukraine were ...

Employees load a container containing bodies of victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 at the airport in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on July 24, 2014. Planes carrying more bodies recovered from the MH17 crash site in Ukraine were ...

MAGONG, July 24 Rescuers said Thursday they had recovered black boxes from the Taiwanese aircraft which crashed in torrential rain killing 48 people, as angry relatives blamed authorities for the worst air disaster in a decade. The discovery of the black ...

A woman who came close to being executed in Sudan for marrying a Christian is thanked in person for her faith by Pope Francis. 7:11pm UK, Thursday 24 July 2014. Meriam Ibrahim meets with Pope Francis. Video: Meriam Ibrahim became the focus of an ...

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets Meriam Ibrahim, from Sudan, with her daughter Maya in her arms, in his Santa Marta residence, at the Vatican, Thursday, July 24, 2014. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore ...

A Sudanese Christian who gave birth in chains after being sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her faith met the Pope today, hours after arriving in Italy at the end of a year-long ordeal. The Pope thanked Meriam Ibrahim, 27, for her “faith and courage” ...

Authorities have lost contact with an Air Algerie flight en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, Algeria's APS state news agency and a Spanish airline company said on Thursday. Share. Go To. Comments. PS said ...

Israel's military continues to hit the Gaza Strip with airstrikes and tank fire, while Hamas rockets fly into Israel amid efforts to secure a cease-fire to end the fighting. Palestinian health officials said the Israeli attacks killed at least 20 people early Thursday.

After the fanfare that greeted his unveiling and press conference, Louis van Gaal has begun work on his Manchester United revolution as he attempts to return the club to the top. With changes to the training ground, the provision of sleep pods and the ...

The wait is finally over as Glasgow 2014 gets underway today — and more than a dozen West Lothian athletes will be going for gold. Scotland's largest ever sporting festival kicked-off with the opening ceremony at Celtic Park last night and the Games start ...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Lawyers for a convicted double-murderer whose lethal injection in Arizona dragged on for two hours, while witnesses watched him gasping for breath and attorneys scrambled to halt the process, have called for an outside review of the ...

The Obama administration lifted a ban on U.S. flights to Israel Thursday but some international airlines were expected to refuse to resume flying to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport until the raging conflict subsides. Air Canada, which cancelled its Toronto-to-Tel ...

Philip Hammond, the new Foreign Secretary, will tell Benjamin Netanyahu today that the West is becoming less sympathetic to Israel's cause, it has been reported. Mr Hammond has called for an urgent ceasefire to end the conflict in Gaza, where the death toll ...

(CNN) -- An Air Algerie flight lost contact 50 minutes after takeoff from Burkina Faso, prompting a search for the missing airliner, Algeria's state news agency said Thursday. Flight AH 5017 left Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, for the Algerian capital of Algiers at ...

Scotsman John Paul opens the sprint qualifying and clocks the fastest time so far, 10.308 seconds. We have seen the first Ghana track cyclist at the Games, Jedidiah Amoako-Ackah 2.370 slower, with Olympic champion Jason Kenny to come. Posted on 11:05 ...

PENGHU ISLAND, TAIWAN - JULY 24: An area is cordoned off where the tail of TransAsia Airways flight GE222 fell on a local house the night before near the airport at Magong on July 24, 2014 in Penghu Island, Taiwan. Taiwan's TransAsia Airways crashed ...

PENGHU ISLAND, TAIWAN - JULY 24: A family member of one the victims of the TransAsia Airways flight mourns their loss after visiting the funeral parlour near the airport at Magong on July 24, 2014 in Penghu Island, Taiwan. Taiwan's TransAsia Airways ...

PENGHU ISLAND, TAIWAN - JULY 24: A family member of one the victims of the TransAsia Airways flight mourns their loss after visiting the funeral parlour near the airport at Magong on July 24, 2014 in Penghu Island, Taiwan. Taiwan's TransAsia Airways ...