Sixteen people were injured in a bomb explosion at a metro train in Cairo Thursday as gunmen killed five Egyptian soldiers and policemen in two separate attacks in northern Sinai.
Officials in Paris are on the lookout for a tiger on the loose. Officials in Paris are on the lookout for a tiger on the loose. Police, fire officials and a specially-trained hunting dog began searching for what they believe is a tiger that was seen in a town outside of Paris.
Protests in Mexico have escalated after the government seems unable to provide an answer to what happened to the 43 students who went missing on Sept. 26 when they were ambushed by police in Guerrero. Mass graves in the area keep being discovered but so far none of the bodies match those of the missing students. A National Information Caravan will leave Chilpancingo on Thursday and head to Mexico's north to demand answers.
The Rosetta mothercraft launched from Earth 10 years ago with the probe named Philae. Rosetta traveled 6.4 billion miles before arriving at the comet in August.
In an effort to dispel rumors that its leader had been killed, ISIS on Thursday released a 17-minute audio recording of a man purported to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The United States and China, two super powers long at loggerheads over greenhouse emissions, announced a historic climate change deal on Wednesday. While the pact is largely symbolic, climate watchers think it could loosen up dialogue for the 200 nations who have to make an agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions for a meeting in Paris in 2015.
On Wednesday, the health ministry announced that a nurse died in the Malian capital of Bamako, becoming the second victim to fall fatally ill from the disease in the country, reports BBC.
Peru's long infrastructure-building journey has just commenced as the South American nation pens various projects to build railroads across the country and continent.
Violent protests erupted Wednesday in the capital of the Mexican state of Guerrero over the still unsolved Sept. 26 disappearance of 43 students in the town of Iguala.
Local police in Mexico are being questioned after a 14-year-old pregnant American girl was shot and injured during a high-speed car chase in the northern city of Reynosa.
Six years after the government's last clarification on its definition of torture, the UN Committee Against Torture, which is currently convening in Geneva, demanded the country explain what it plans to do about allegations of torture and internal violence, from CIA "black sites" to the Michael Brown shooting.
United States President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled ambitious new targets for a climate change deal at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Beijing Tuesday.
Ukraine announced Wednesday its redeploying of troops to the east because of growing fear that separatists in that area of the country will launch another offensive. Russia has repeatedly denied that it has sent in reinforcement troops for the rebels.
Smoke rises as a house is blown up by Egyptian security forces in northern Sinai. The government is trying to choke off the militant group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, which has pledged its allegiance to ISIS.
Turkish nationalists yelling "Yankee go home!" on Wednesday attacked three American sailors in Istanbul. A group of about 10 men pushed the servicemen, who were not in uniform, and threw objects at them.
After a grueling number of hours and a 10-year journey, the Philae lander has successfully arrived on its target. The probe will relay information back to Earth about the ancient comet 67P and hopefully unravel secrets about our universe and Earth’s creation.
The 11,000 year old skeletal remains of two Ice Age infants found in central Alaska lead to new speculation about the funeral rites of an ancient hunter/gatherer society.
The United Nations agency tasked with protecting refugees worries that as many as a million people who fled violence in Iraq and Syria may be left "without proper help" in the coming winter.
