updated 1:24 AM EDT, Thu September 4, 2014 (CNN) -- In a 55-minute long video, al Qaeda announced it will launch a new branch in the Indian subcontinent. Speaking in the video, al Qaeda leader Ayman...
Jessica Berman The growing number of Type 2 diabetes cases worldwide will make it difficult to control and eliminate tuberculosis. Experts have found a connection between the two diseases, reminiscent...
Reuters DUBAI — Al-Qaida leader Ayman al Zawahri on Wednesday announced the formation of an Indian branch of his militant group he said would spread Islamic rule and “raise the flag of...
Ukraine’s leader sent financial markets into turbulence as he backtracked on talk of an end to five months of violence in his nation’s east. PresidentPetro Poroshenko announced this morning that he’d...
Vladimir Putin says he "sketched out" a peace plan during his flight from Moscow. Photo: AP Kiev: Russian President Vladimir Putin has listed seven steps he said were necessary for a ceasefire in the...
Former FrenchFirst LadyValerie Trierweiler has claimed PresidentFrancois Hollande tried to win her back with flowers, dinner invitations and text messages in her secret memoir. The 49-year-old, a...
Reuters MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA— The Nigerian town of Bama remains under government control after an assault by Boko Haram, the Borno state government and local vigilante groups said on Wednesday,...
Al Pessin CARDIFF, WALES— The 28 NATO leaders are gathering in Wales, in western Britain, for their first summit in two years, amid a new and challenging array of crises. In 2012 in Chicago,...
UNITED NATIONS: Top UN officials have warned that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa "will get worse before it gets better" as they called for international action to deal with the crisis, saying...
BERNE: FIFA president Sepp Blatter has reiterated that Russia's hosting of the 2018 World Cup is not up for discussion. "We are not placing any questions over the World Cup in Russia," he told an...
The best result of Tuesday's action at the U.S. Open was that victories by Roger Federer and Gael Monfils will put them on the same tennis court in two days. That should be good for tennis. Everybody...
Natacha Bouchart says such a move would be illegal, but she wants to send a strong message to Britain French police expel migrants from a camp in Calais in July. Photograph: Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty...
An estimated $1tn (£600bn) a year is being taken out of poor countries and millions of lives are lost because of corruption, according to campaigners. A report by the US-based anti-poverty...
By Akane Otani NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended mostly lower on Tuesday, retreating from records set the previous month, as falling crude oil prices dragged energy shares down and offset strong...
Lisa Schlein GENEVA— Thousands of Nigerians have fled vicious attacks by Boko Haram and sought refuge in Cameroon in the past 10 days, officials from Cameroon and the United Nations say. Cameroonian...