Officials announce they are sending fighter jets to help the fight Australia said Friday it will soon launch six fighter jets that will conduct airstrikes against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, joining the U.
Storm is expected to turn back toward Baja California Tropical Storm Simon is deceiving on the radar and the storm currently looks set to head out to sea in the Pacific Ocean.
Recent recall is the 71st this year for embattled American automaker General Motors Co. said Friday that it is recalling 524,384 vehicles around the world because of issues with latches and loose parts, another of many recalls by the company this year.
Two of the men held by Thai police confessed to murdering the British tourists and raping Hannah Witheridge. DNA samples from the men were found on Witheridge's body.
Officials in Saudi Arabia have quelled fears of the spread of deadly diseases like Ebola and MERS as 2 million Muslims made their way to Mecca for the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage on Thursday.
A man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video on Thursday, contradicting Nigerian military reports that he had been killed.
Bank of Japan policymakers meeting next week will start debating how to justify maintaining their rosy inflation forecasts even as a slew of weak data will likely force them to cut their economic growth projections later this month.
Human rights groups condemned on Friday a Myanmar government plan that could force thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims into detention camps indefinitely if they do not qualify for citizenship.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday that the yen's weakening is broadly positive for the Japanese economy as long as it reflected the underlying fundamentals.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott asked officials on Friday to re-think restrictions on members of the public wearing face-coverings such as burqas in parliament following a public backlash against the measures.
Britain will quit the European Court of Human Rights unless it agrees that theWestminster parliament has the final say over its rulings, Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives said on Friday.
Pierre Moscovici must answer further written questions from the European Parliament's economic affairs committee by late on Sunday before it considers again his nomination as EU economics commissioner, lawmakers said on Friday.
Serra and his partner Maria Herrera were found dead on Wednesday in their Caracas home after being stabbed and possibly tortured. Government officials have launched an investigation into their murders.
Censors on the U.S. Motion Picture Association of America have given an award-winning British LGBT title from Cannes film festival a very restrictive rating, citing fans of the movie to call the board homophobic.
Parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann have received an onslaught of online abuse and death threats in recent weeks, officials said Thursday.
President goes as far as suggesting the U.S. government may try to assassinate her Political attack ads in the U. S. often claim that a political opponent isn't in touch with reality.
Nearly 10,000 people have been killed in Iraq in 2014 The conflict in Iraq has had tremendous consequences on civilians in Iraq with 26,000 civilian casualties this year, according to a report from the United Nations.
President Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum that would allow children from various regions, including Central America, to apply for asylum for the 2015 fiscal year.
