Abdul-Rahman Kassig, a U.S. medic whom ISIS claimed Sunday to have beheaded after holding him hostage for a year, was a former Army Ranger turned humanitarian who found his calling in helping everyday people fleeing conflicts in the Middle East.
A Princess Cruises ship docked in San Pedro early Sunday after nearly 170 people on board fell ill in the ship's second outbreak of norovirus this year, officials said.
A meeting of major world leaders in Australia that was supposed to focus on jolting weak economic growth was overshadowed by the renewed crisis in Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin facing threats of new sanctions as he left the Group of 20 ...
The Shiodome business district in Tokyo. Japan's gross domestic product shrank by an annual pace of 1.6 percent in the most recent quarter Credit Thomas Peter/Reuters.
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Washington state's first marijuana auction brought in about $600,000. Fireweed Farms of Prosser sold about 300 pounds of pot to state-licensed processors and retailers Saturday, the Tri-City Herald reported ( http://is.
KABUL - An outspoken female Afghan lawmaker survived a suicide bombing attack on her vehicle on Sunday, suffering slight wounds - but three civilian bystanders were killed, a police spokesman said.
BUCHAREST, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Provincial mayor Klaus Iohannis defied expectations to win Romania's presidential election on Sunday, inflicting a shock defeat on Prime Minister Victor Ponta that was cheered by thousands of anti-government protesters on ...
Shocking new footage claiming to show the immediate aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 has been revealed. The video shows horrified villagers looking on as a giant cloud of black smoke and burning fuel can be seen on the horizon.
UKRAINE is ready for “total war,” President Petro Poroshenko has said, as fighting grew more intense around the rebel stronghold of Donetsk amid a build up of separatist troops.
JERUSALEM - Israel's prime minister said Sunday that he is pushing forward a bill that enshrines in law that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, adding a new complication to already tense relations with Arab-Israelis and Palestinians.
The Ferguson, Missouri officer who killed an unarmed 18-year-old is featured in an online video taken by a man who said Darren Wilson unlawfully arrested him and violated his rights.
SHARON HILL, Pa. - Authorities say a 10-year-old boy has been hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself in the face with a gun he found while sitting in a car in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Less than two weeks after Republicans won control of Congress, acrimony over immigration is dampening hopes for cooperation on more ambitious initiatives, with President Obama and GOP lawmakers bracing not for compromise but for combat.
The State Department on Sunday became the fourth government agency to announce a breach of its computer systems in recent weeks, after an infiltration forced the agency to temporarily shut down its unclassified email system and public websites.
A growing algae bloom problem in the Great Lakes has led to a joint committee with Canada to find solutions for the problem. Algae blooms sound as though they would be harmless and in many cases, they can be.
Virgin America Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer David Cush (C) celebrates the company's initial public offering after ringing the opening bell of the trading session with NASDAQ President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Greifeld (2nd R) at the ...
AT&T fell victim to some of the harshest criticisms any service provider had felt in the mobile space recently after the company suddenly halted the use of what are known as permacookies.
NEW YORK - One more time, Facebook is trying to simplify its lengthy privacy policy - and make it much shorter - to explain how it targets advertisements to its 1.35 billion users.
Three young Chilean engineers have set out to put a brake on bike theft with a design that allows the rider to connect the tube seat with the lower pole so the bike can't be stolen without breaking it.
Recording artist Solange Knowles married music video director Alan Ferguson at a church in New Orleans Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT. Knowles, 28, and Ferguson, 51, announced their engagement last June after about five years of dating.
GREEN BAY - Are the Eagles a legitimate threat in the NFC, or have they been feasting on bad opponents all season? That will be the talk this week after the Eagles were annihilated, 53-20, by the Green Bay Packers on Sunday at Lambeau Field.
The Denver Broncos' high-powered offense ran into a buzzsaw in St. Louis - and fantasy owners were left staring at a mostly empty stat sheet in one of Week 11′s most stunning developments.
The Rosetta probe Philae was finally spotted on comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasminko as it bounced away from the original landing site. The large red circle indicates the position of the dust cloud caused by the landing.
The most accurate laboratory measurements yet made of magnetic fields trapped in grains within a primitive meteorite are providing important clues to how the early solar system evolved.
Typically Uranus is an incredibly boring place. Occasional storms, but typically nothing severe, or extreme. Scientists estimate that once every 7 years a flurry of storms will occasionally be sparked.
November 16, 2014 -- "Longer is better." That's what Dr. Dean Kereiakis told Angioplasty.Org when characterizing the results of the long-awaited Dual Antiplatelet Therapy (DAPT) study, which were presented today at the annual American Heart Association ...
