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.
A series of airstrikes carried out by United States, Iraqi and coalition aircrafts against the Islamic State positions and troops may have wounded the group's elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Iraqi officials announced that the leader was wounded, but American officials did not confirm al-Baghdadi's status.
President Barack Obama while he is in Asia for eight days is pushing to finalize a trans-Pacific trade deal between 12 countries that would eradicate tariffs and regulations--a pact that critics believe will only benefit corporations.
Violent protests continued in Mexico after new details unsurfaced on Friday about the massacre of 43 Mexican student teachers who went missing almost two months ago.
A suspected plot by four Muslim radicals to kill 88-year-old Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Albert Hall has been foiled by London's Metropolitan Police Service.
Mexicans in New York held a rally on Sunday in solidarity in Mexico for the 43 students who were kidnapped by police and allegedly murdered afterwards in the southwestern town of Iguala, Mexico on Sept. 26.
A Palestinian Activist was charged with immigration fraud Monday. A Palestinian activist was charged with immigration fraud Monday. A federal jury in Detroit found the Palestinian immigrant guilty for failing to disclose her conviction and imprisonment for a Jerusalem supermarket bombing that killed two people and wounded several others.
A suicide attack at a school in northeastern Nigeria has left almost 50 people dead and has reignited popular anger toward the government for its inability to curb the attacks against schools and towns. Though no one has claimed responsibility, it is believed Boko Haram conducted the attack.
The famous fable of the race between the tortoise and the hare has seen the tortoise winning. The fable is poignant here; the once extinct Galápagos tortoises are making a comeback on the picturesque Spanish-speaking islands.
