A device deployed by police goes off in the street as police and protesters clash in Ferguson, St. Louis. Photo / AP. Protests in the St. Louis suburb rocked by racial unrest since a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death turned violent ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Department officials said late Wednesday that U.S. airstrikes and Kurdish fighters had broken the siege on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, allowing thousands of trapped members of a minority group to escape. A team of about 20 ...

Paris • Calling the situation in Iraqi Kurdistan "catastrophic," France said Wednesday it would start supplying arms to the Kurdish forces fighting Sunni extremists from the Islamic State group. Paris and London have agreed to coordinate their actions on both ...

A deal to extend a cease-fire in Gaza has been marked by both Israel and Hamas exchanging rocket fire shortly before it took effect. The new five-day truce was announced by Palestinian officials. Israel bombed several Gaza sites early on Thursday, minutes ...

Coroner's findings reveal Robin Williams made two attempts to end his life during his final hours. Lifeline: 0800 543 354. Related Links. Forget the phoney psychoanalysis and celebrate Robin Williams 'It lays in wait' - Robin Williams' lifelong fight · Robin ...

August 13, 2014: A device deployed by police goes off in the street as police and protesters clash in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson). Police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo. used tear gas and smoke bombs Wednesday to disperse protesters, ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired three short-range rockets off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea's Ministry of Defence said, shortly before Pope Francis arrived in Seoul on his first visit to Asia. The rockets were fired from multiple launchers in the ...

Washington • A team of about 20 U.S. troops and aid workers who landed Wednesday on Iraq's Mount Sinjar determined that a rescue operation of besieged minorities stranded there is probably unnecessary, the Pentagon said. "There are far fewer" refugees ...

A look back at the life of Lauren Bacall - the cool, sultry-voiced icon of Hollywood's golden age of cinema who died at age 89. WSJ's Mark Kelly reports (Image: Everett Collection). Though known world-wide as one of the last of the grande dames of ...

Lahore: Wishing his countrymen on the occasion of the 68th Independence Day, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday night asked the people of Pakistan to embrace themselves for the 'Azadi March', which according to him ...

A billboard promoting the washing of hands to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus is seen in Monrovia, Liberia. Picture: Jonathan Paye-Layleh. Monrovia - A consignment of experimental Ebola drugs arrived by plane in Liberia on Wednesday to treat two ...

(JTA) — Palestinian leaders announced a five-day extension of the cease fire between Israel and Gaza shortly after midnight on Thursday even as an exchange of rockets and missiles raised questions as to whether the truce could hold. Shortly before the ...

LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 29: Robin Williams attends the CW, CBS And Showtime 2013 Summer TCA Party on July 29, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images) | Jason Kempin via Getty Images. Share · Tweet. Email.

AUGUST is a tragic month in Brazilian presidential politics. Sixty years ago Getúlio Vargas, a populist dictator turned democrat, committed suicide while in office. In 1976 Jucelino Kubitschek, who had built Brasília, the country's Utopian capital, was killed in a ...

Sierra Leone's Presidential Youth Aide in the Office of the President, Bai Mamoud Bangura (in photo) has sent a strong challenge to all young people in the country to be vigilant enough to fight against the Ebola virus that is currently ravaging the lives of ...

Founder of Disable International Sierra Leone, Imambay Kadie Kamara, has joined the fight against the deadly Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Madam Kamara has promised to ship medical items including antiseptics, gloves, wipes, hand sanitizers, Dettol, ...

The plane had two pilots, two advisors, a photographer and a videographer aboard. All of them died. By AFP. Published: August 14, 2014. Tweet · Share this article Print this page Email. Aeronautic experts stand next to part of the wreckage of the Cessna ...

Police in a Missouri town are blocking the public's right to free speech, free assembly and now a free press. There's a police coup going on right now in Ferguson, Mo. 0 comments. Travel Deals. $1061 & up -- 7-Nt. 4-City Ireland Trip w/Car from Philly.

As Canada prepares to ship out as many as 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine, it is also preparing to hand off to international medical experts the gut-wrenching decisions about who in West Africa will receive an injection that could protect against ...

Aug 13, 2014: Pope Francis is welcomed by two hostesses as he boards a plane to South Korea, at Rome's Fiumicino international airport. (AP). SEOUL, South Korea – Pope Francis arrived Thursday in South Korea on the first papal visit to the Asian nation in ...