Kurdish forces have taken over Iraqi oil fields, adding to the already tense situation in Baghdad. Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurds took over two oil fields in Baghdad amid a dispute with the government Friday.
Ukrainian troops prepare for an attack on the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. A rebel attack on Ukrainian troops has killed 30 and has caused an uproar within Kiev's government.
The global banana trade represents a variety of social, political and economic issues, rooted in economic imperialism, but yet another issue has emerged. Listed as number four on the the world's list of staple crops and one of the biggest profit makers in supermarkets, bananas are being threatened in Latin America and other parts of the world by a ravaging pathogen.
A 14-year-old girl was raped by orders of a village counsel in a remote portion of India Sunday. A 14-year-old girl was raped by orders of a village counsel in a remote portion of India Sunday.
For the next three months the British broadcaster will air news online in Thailand. After Thailand's government was toppled by the military, the new leaders of the country began imposing control over the media, preventing the spread of information.
As the nation's border states continue to see an influx of unaccompanied minors from Central America cross the U.S.-Mexico border, filling up federal facilities, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to pass a $3.7 billion fund to process the undocumented minors and transport them back to their homelands.
Three miners were freed last week, but eight remain trapped in the mine and are feared dead A landslide in southern Honduras has blocked the entrance to a mine in which eight people have been trapped for more than a week, according to a report from BBC.
Five others were inured in the fourth running of the bulls A bull gored two people and hurt others in the fourth running of the bulls on Thursday at Spain's San Fermin festival held in Pamplona, according to a report from the Guardian that read more like an Ernest Hemingway novel.
Dead Guatemalan women are being dumped in alleyways, dropped by the roadside, and deserted in parks, bodies bound by trash bags, plastic blankets, or left bare for the world to see, abandoned by the wayside like discarded trash.
After a 39-day high profile trial, Oscar Pistorius' defense attorneys rested their case, putting emphasis on the fact that the world renowned Paralympic athlete is still a man that suffers from a disability and profound sense of vulnerability.
National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden is petitioning the Russian government to extend his one-year temporary renewable asylum, which will expire on July 31.
