With his new offensive against Islamic State terrorists in Syria, Barack Obama has a chance to revive his presidency, but the only way he can do that is to become a brand-new president, one who will be almost unrecognizable to his supporters. Obama must ...

BEIJING—. As U.S. airstrikes began hitting targets of the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria, China says it supports international efforts to crack down on terrorism. Increasingly though, Beijing is seeing the fight against the Islamic State militants (IS) as an ...

For the last two years, writer and photographer Tommy Trenchard has been documenting life in Sierra Leone -- one of the three West African countries hardest hit by the world's worst Ebola outbreak. Trenchard shared with us his photos documenting the ...

Jerusalem: Israeli special forces stormed a West Bank hideout early on Tuesday and killed two Palestinians suspected in the June abduction and slaying of three Israeli teenagers, a gruesome attack that had triggered a chain of events that led to the war in ...

MDG : World Conference on Indigenous Peoples at UN The World Conference on Indigenous Peoples was described as a historic moment by the Sami president, Aili Keskitalo. Photograph: Yubi Hoffmann/UN Photo. Governments have agreed to draw up ...

UNITED NATIONS: Actor and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson gave a powerful speech on gender equality at the UN on Saturday, helping to launch her new initiative, HeForShe. Watson's HeForShe campaign aspires to galvanise as ...

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2014 file photo, an Apple store employee arranges a stack of pre-ordered iPhone 6 Plus models, in New York. Apple on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014 said it sold more than 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models, a record for a new model, ...

Washington: Acting on the strategy charted out by US President Barack Obama to rein in the Islamic State in Syria, the US military in collaboration with its anti-IS partners has targeted the extremists spots in the civil war-struck country, said the Pentagon.

A university professor who spoke out against the Communist party's policies in the vast western region of Xinjiang has become the first Chinese dissident in almost a decade to be sentenced to life in prison. Ilham Tohti, 44, taught economics at Beijing's Ethnic ...

Hackers have threatened to leak alleged nude photos of Harry Potter star Emma Watson following her gender equality speech at the UN Headquarters. Watson, a UN women goodwill ambassador, delivered her speech on Sunday and launched UN Women ...

Perth city centre is to be transformed into a family-friendly 'fan zone' to celebrate the 2014 Ryder Cup coming to Gleneagles. Share; Share; Tweet; +1; Email. Ryder Cup Europe. Ryder Cup logo - HANDOUT. Perth city centre is to be transformed into a ...

Vatican City, Sep 23, 2014 / 04:26 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis resumed daily Mass Tuesday after his papal visit to Albania, telling those present that living the Christian life is simple: listen to God's word and put it into practice. “These are the two ...

Vatican City, Sep 23, 2014 / 04:26 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis resumed daily Mass Tuesday after his papal visit to Albania, telling those present that living the Christian life is simple: listen to God's word and put it into practice. “These are the two ...

A Chinese court has sentenced prominent Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti to life in prison for "separatism." Rights groups have slammed the controversial trial as a "failure" of the justice system and demand Tohti's release. Uigure Regimekritiker lebenslange Haft ...

IOL pic sep23 SYRIA-CRISIS-TURKEY-REFUGEES_0923_11 Reuters Syrian Kurdish refugees sit on their cars on the Syrian side of the Turkish-Syrian border near the town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province on September 23, 2014. More than 130 000 Syrian ...

Beirut: US-led air strikes killed 30 Al Qaida militants and eight civilians, including children, in northern Syria on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Most of the 30 fighters killed in the strikes west of the second city Aleppo were foreigners, ...

Palestinian Fatah delegation chief Azzam al-Ahmed, center, and members of the Palestinian Fatah delegation leave the hotel where the negotiations are taking place with Egyptian intelligence mediators aimed at brokering an end to the Gaza conflict on ...

Founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) tele-evangelist TB Joshua gestures during the President of Nigeria's visit to the church at Ikotun in Lagos on September 20, 2014. Credit: AFP. Article by Mia Lindeque. The ANC Youth League ...

Outgoing Afghan president Hamid Karzai has taken one last swipe at the US, saying that America did not want peace in Afghanistan. Mr Karzai said that peace will come to Afghanistan if the United States and Pakistan really want it. The only president ...

Alexander Lucie-Smith is a Catholic priest, doctor of moral theology and consulting editor of The Catholic Herald. On Twitter he is @ALucieSmith · Contact the author. Related Posts. Both sides fire shots over Communion for remarried as 'doctrinal war' breaks ...