President Barack Obama speaks about developments in Iraq, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Chilmark, Mass., during his family vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Obama welcomed new leadership in Iraq as "a promising step forward" Monday amid a ...

Brazilian presidential candidate killed in plane crash Brazilian presidential candidate of the Partido Socialista Eduardo Campos during an event in Brasilia, Brazil, 05 October 2013. Fernando Bizerra Jr.—EPA ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday called for United Nations system-wide support to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) efforts to fight Ebola. "This morning the secretary-general chaired a UN system-wide coordination on Ebola," Xinhua ...

"Congrats." So reads the message from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to ever win the Fields Medal, which is something like the Nobel Prize for mathematics. Mirzakhani, a Stanford University professor, happens to ...

BRAZILIAN presidential candidate Eduardo Campos has died when the small plane that was carrying him and several campaign officials plunged into a residential neighbourhood in the port city of Santos. All seven people aboard the plane, including a ...

Robin Williams' children tell of their sadness at the suicide of their beloved father. Daughter Zelda said: “Dad was, is and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls I've ever known. The entire world is for ever a little darker, less colourful ...

A new ceasefire in Gaza will last five days, Egypt and a senior Palestinian negotiator said on Wednesday, just minutes before a previous truce was set to expire. "An agreement to extend the ceasefire for five days has been accepted by both sides to allow ...

A passenger train derailed into a ravine in a mountainous region of southeastern Switzerland after a terrifying crash. Eleven passengers were injured after three train carriages came off the tracks near Tiefencastel, a village less than 30 miles northwest of the ...

education Mr Justice Joe Appiah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma North Constituency, has advised parents to invest in the education of their wards to make them competitive on the job market in future. He said this during the Sixth Graduation and ...

WASHINGTON -- A young man who said he witnessed the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, is talking to police on Wednesday. St. Louis Police Department spokesman Brian Schellman told The Huffington Post at ...

Foreign Minister John Baird Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird attends an event in Hong Kong August 6, 2014. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu. Tweet. Change text size for the story; Print this story. Report an error ...

Foreign Minister John Baird Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird attends an event in Hong Kong August 6, 2014. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu. Tweet. Change text size for the story; Print this story. Report an error ...

WASHINGTON: The US air campaign in Iraq against jihadist militants from the so-called Islamic State continued Wednesday with a drone strike on an armed truck west of the Yazidi town of Sinjar, the military said. US Central Command, which oversees ...

Vice Media has dismissed i-D writer Jack Borkett after he posted an item about Lauren Bacall that lifted the title and portions of text from a New York Magazine article, a spokesperson said. i-D had removed Borkett's post after determining that it "had too many ...

President Park Geun-hye will greet Pope Francis this morning upon his touchdown at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, Gyeonggi, on the southern outskirts of Seoul, in a gesture of the highest respect, according to the Blue House yesterday. In the afternoon, the ...

President Park Geun-hye will greet Pope Francis this morning upon his touchdown at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, Gyeonggi, on the southern outskirts of Seoul, in a gesture of the highest respect, according to the Blue House yesterday. In the afternoon, the ...

Former governor and presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was killed in an airplane crash in Santos, Brazil today. His death makes a runoff more likely for incumbent Dilma Rousseff. By Stephen Kurczy, Correspondent August 13, 2014. close. In this July ...

Everton have completed the signing of winger Christian Atsu on a season-long loan from Chelsea. Manager Roberto Martinez revealed earlier in the week the contract had been concluded "in principle" but the news was made official on the club's website on ...

Everton have announced the signing of winger Christian Atsu on a season-long loan from Chelsea. Manager Roberto Martinez had made no secret of the fact that a deal was imminent for the 22-year-old and he has now got his man after the Ghana ...

The United Nations has called its highest level of emergency for the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, where hundreds of thousands have been driven from their homes and tens of thousands have been trapped in a desert mountain by the advance of Islamic ...