The United Nations has been heavily criticized for its decision to appoint Saudi Arabia as the head of a key human rights panel, particularly in light of the country's decision to sentence a Saudi teen to be crucified.
Colombian President Juan Manual Santos traveled to Ecuador on Monday to meet with Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro in an attempt to ease tension between their two countries.
After the Daily Mail published an outrageous story that claimed British Prime Minister David Cameron had put "a private part of his anatomy" into a dead pig's mouth during a student initiation ceremony at the University of Oxford, the Twitter world exploded.
Marcin Wrona, director of the film "Demon," has been found dead in a hotel room in Poland last Friday night. See the details here and watch a trailer for his film.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. believes it is possible to stop genocide ahead of time through the use of an online tool known as the Early Warning Project.
Negotiations between the Colombian government and the country's leftist rebels must succeed, Pope Francis said on Sunday, as he noted that the talks to end South America's longest-running conflict were facing a "crucial moment."
Thousands of people greeted Pope Francis at the Plaza of Revolution in Holguin Monday morning, celebrating his first visit to Cuba's third largest city.
Staging demonstrations against the nearly 14-year sentence Leopoldo López received earlier this month for inciting violence at anti-government protests last year, opposition party members marched throughout Venezuela’s main cities on Saturday.
Pope Francis on Sunday delivered Mass to thousands of Cuban citizens in Havana before meeting with Fidel Castro, the former leader of the communist country.
Two week ago Barcelona authorities police estimated that nearly 1.4 million Catalans participated in a demonstration voicing their desire to sucede form Spain.
A man named Ali Mohammed al-Nimr is set to be crucified in Saudi Arabia for his participation in anti-government protests he engaged in back in 2012, when he was 17.
A breathtaking rare weather condition left Costa Ricans in awe on Tuesday when they looked up into the sky and saw what appeared to be a unique, multi-colored cloud.
A group of elderly-care nurses in Sweden have commenced experimenting with a six-hour work day that many there hope could soon have widespread impact for workers across that region.
The Obama Administration announced that it will ease its restrictions on business and travel to Cuba in an effort to mend its severed ties with the communist country.
A Venezuelan fighter jet crashed on Friday near the Colombian border. The fate of the two pilots aboard the Russian-made aircraft was not immediately clear.
"Sexual rights" is the term the U.S. government plans to use to refer the prerogatives of people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, the State Department announced in remarks made to a United Nations panel.
