Jonestown is the second-biggest single-event loss of American life It's been 35 years since the Jonestown massacre, in which more than 900 people died in a mass suicide-murder in Guyana, but a reminder of the horrific event came to light on Thursday.
A UN convention passed in 2011 is contributing to a global movement of rights for domestic workers. Brazil just signed into law its version of rights to protect domestic workers, and other Latin American countries are adopting changes.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Afghanistan to broker negotiations between Afghan presidential candidates in an effort to form a national unity government.
The U.S. has already begun airstrikes against ISIS positions near the Kurdish capital of Erbil. As the crisis in Iraq continues to deteriorate, President Barack Obama has allowed for humanitarian aid drops for Iraq's beleaguered minorities as well as limited air strikes against advancing ISIS forces.
Prosecutors closed out the Oscar Pistorius murder trial on Thursday, emphasizing that the acclaimed South African track star intentionally killed his girlfriend last year and should face the consequences.
President Juan Manuel Santos was inaugurated for his second term Thursday. President Juan Manuel Santos was inaugurated Thursday, beginning his second term as Colombia's president.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has made gains in Iraq, causing ethnic and religious minorities to flee the the mountains, where they face starvation and dehydration.
After spending more than a year residing in Russia on temporary asylum, National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden has been granted permission to stay in the country for three more years.
Senegal is earning the most from interenet biz and four women came together to take a part in that, with a focus on increasing the number of women in the work force. The global average is 30% women in IT, but Senegal only has 14%.
Message comes at a time when U.S.-Russian relations are falling apart As if relations between the U. S. and Russia weren't already strained enough, some Russians couldn't resist sending President Barack Obama a racially charged birthday message, the Washington Times reported.
a vaccine and a treatment drug are in the works to help with the ebola outbreak. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved streamlining the testing of a vaccine to help control the strain of the Ebola virus outbreak in western African countries.
Estela Carlotto, the 83-year-old leader of an Argentine human rights group committed to finding babies stolen by the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, has found her very own grandson after 36 years.
