The tropical depression on the move in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday prompted the National Hurricane Center to issue a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch for areas of Florida's Gulf Coast, as a second tropical depression largely spared North Carolina's Outer Banks.
President Obama has extended the U.S. military’s combat mission in Libya for another month at the request of senior military leaders, two defense officials with knowledge of the order told Fox News.
Lawyers for "affluenza" teenager Ethan Couch argue in a court filing that he should be released from jail because the judge in his case had no jurisdiction in the matter.
Two Eritrean baby boys were recovering well at a hospital in Palermo on Wednesday, a week after they were born prematurely in Libya and then -- at only 5 days old -- put on a cramped boat headed to Europe's shores.
Egypt's parliament has toughened penalties for female genital mutilation, adopting amendments that punish perpetrators with up to 15 years in prison if a child dies and up to seven years for carrying the procedure.
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency says authorities have accused a detained American-Iranian dual citizen of "acting against national security." The Wednesday report did not name the suspect, but said he was arrested in the northern city of Gorgan in July, and so appeared to be referring to Robin Shahini.
Microsoft’s search engine Bing has sparked controversy after translating the word “Daesh”-- an acronym that refers to the fundamentalist group Islamic State— as “Saudi Arabia.”
Firefighters have conducted a preliminary search of Amatrice's crumbled elementary school and financial police have begun gathering documentation about contracts for renovations of quake-destroyed public buildings as the investigation into the devastation kicked into higher gear a week after the temblor struck central Italy.
Bo Paske doesn’t mind eating alone at lunch, as he does most days, but on Tuesday, he had a special tablemate— a Florida State University football player.
A US appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a $654 million jury verdict against the Palestine Liberation Organization for terrorist attacks in the early 2000s in Israel that killed or wounded Americans, saying the U.S. courts lack jurisdiction because the attacks were random and not aimed at the United States.