As the noose tightens around the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, there is a flurry of activity in the city’s surrounding villages, where the black-clad jihadist army’s retreat has revealed destruction, booby traps and underground warrens where terrorists cowered under coalition airstrikes.
There are no names, no stories on the embankment where a quarter-million Rwandans are buried in a mass grave, memorialized by a simple word: "Remembrance." But as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday bowed his head at the Kigali memorial for victims of this African nation's 1994 genocide, it was impossible not to juxtapose the many declarations of "Never Again" with the reality of mass killings persisting to this day, sometimes unpunished and undeterred by the United States.
Swiss authorities have convicted and sentenced to six months in prison an Indian man who staged a false bomb alert involving an Aeroflot passenger plane.
A South African university says its vice-chancellor was assaulted by protesters after he met with them to discuss their demands for free university education.
Scientists in Germany have flipped the switch on a 60 million euro ($66 million) machine designed to help determine the mass of the universe's lightest particle.
Croatia's lawmakers have convened for the first time since last month's early election, paving the way to approve a new government following a period of political instability in the European Union's newest member.
Yemeni officials say an explosion has ripped through a funeral held for a top army commander at a marquee east of the capital Sanaa, killing five people.
For two weeks now, the shelf once piled with bags of sugar — for better or worse Egypt's most loved commodity — has stood empty at this grocery store in bustling downtown Cairo.
Tucked behind Bashiqa Mountain in northern Iraq, some 500 Turkish troops stationed alongside a local militia say they are training and arming Iraqi fighters to help defeat the Islamic State group.
Britain's High Court has rejected a $1 billion lawsuit against Goldman Sachs by Libya's sovereign wealth fund, which accused the investment bank of duping it into risky deals.
Amnesty International says countries including Mexico and the United States are deporting Central American immigrants back to violent homelands that don't protect them.
The European Union's top official for enlargement is urging Macedonia's feuding party leaders to look beyond forthcoming early elections to passing reforms required for the country's eventual accession.
The High Court in London has ruled that a British financial trader suspected of helping to trigger the 2010 "Flash Crash" in stock markets can be extradited to the United States.
Hungary's razor-wire border fence aims to keep refugees from entering the country — but it's also blocking the natural migratory patterns of thousands of deer and other wild animals.