The birth of a child should be a joyous occasion, but for Samuel Forrest of Armenia, it was a day of emotional turmoil when he was told by doctors that his newborn son has Down Syndrome, and he received an ultimatum from his wife.
A 54-year-man faces multiple charges of incapacitated rape after allegedly drugging and sexually assaulted up to 100 women he came into contact with as part of a fake study he conducted on sleeping habits.
Speaking to supporters in Caracas before meeting with Ernesto Samper, the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called for a relationship with the United States based on diplomacy and demanded an end to what he sees as a U.S. backed plan to destabilize his government.
The U.S. State Department announced this week additional visa restrictions for human rights violators from Venezuela. Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has since criticized the U.S. government's decision.
Benjamin Netanyahu has no plans to cancel a planned March 3 speech before a joint session of Congress, which has ruffled feathers in the United States weeks before the Israeli prime minister's arrival.
After making an announcement that he was initiating a government investigation into allegations of corruption directed at him, his wife, and his finance minister, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, turning away from the microphone, was heard to say “Ya se que no aplauden,” which translates to “I already knew they don’t clap.”
Bishops around the globe must fully cooperate with a Vatican commission created to protect children from sexual abuse by clerics, Pope Francis demanded in a letter dated Feb. 2.
French President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined forces on Thursday in an attempt to help halt the hostilities in eastern Ukraine.
A New Jersey man on Wednesday pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen firearms after prosecutors accused him of scheming to sell several guns believed to have belonged to the family of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
The United Kingdom is set to become the first country in the world to allow the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man. Lawmakers in the House of Commons on Wednesday sanctioned a technique that stops genetic diseases being passed from mother to child.
The North Korean propaganda apparatus is not known for understatements, but Pyongyang on Wednesday upped the ante even by its own standards when it threatened the United States with the "most disastrous final doom on its mainland," warning that "the time of the nightmare" was near."
Thousands of cats who had been spared from becoming the entrées on Vietnamese dinner plates were then apparently buried alive by the country's authorities.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has ordered the start of an investigation into the purchases of his home, a house bought by his wife, and the home of his finance minister.
Ukrainian forces intensified their attacks on pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country on Wednesday and hit a section of Donetsk, the capital of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, that had previously been considered safe.
Colombian rock star Juanes has been added to the 2015 Grammy Awards line-up and will perform the first Spanish-language, original Latin music song performance in the last ten years at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.
For Miss Universe Paulina Vega, living in New York will prove challenging. For Miss Universe Paulina Vega, living in New York will prove challenging. The Colombian beauty queen will live in the American city for a year, and, so far, her stay has been marked by cold weather.
Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, the man who officially accused high ranking government off's Aicials of covering up an Iranian connection to the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, had drafted an arrest warrant for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner before dying on Jan. 19.
The Queen of Ska Punk, Gwen Stefani, on a hiatus from her duties from as the front woman of Orange County rock band No Doubt, made an appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," on Tuesday to critical acclaim by the studio audience, Rap-Up reports.
