Iraqi forces on the doorstep of ISIS-held Mosul were struggling Tuesday to make a final push to enter the city, with snipers, landmines and even road-blocking boulders slowing their progress.
The long-time confidante at the heart of calls for South Korea's president to step down was held by authorities after she dramatically returned to the country to face questions from prosecutors Monday.
A new documentary reveals secret audio tapes of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il talking openly about his frustrations with the country's propaganda and film production.
India and Pakistan say 13 civilians have been killed in cross-border shelling from both sides of the Line of Control, the de facto border between the two countries in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Britain faces a growing threat from covert attempts at destabilization by Russia, the head of the country's security and counter-intelligence agency MI5 has said.
Two of China's brand new, top-of-the-line stealth fighter jets streaked and screamed across an air exhibition on Tuesday as Beijing showed its newest military hardware to the public for the first time.
Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from certain death during World War II, has been formally declared dead by the Swedish government 71 years after he vanished.
Rio de Janeiro, the city of sunshine and samba, elected a former evangelical bishop mayor in a municipal election that signals Brazil's politics are shifting right after 13 years of national leftist rule.
The Syrian rebels' assault on regime-held parts of Aleppo keeps getting deadlier, with 84 people killed over the past three days, the Syrian military said Monday.
It is across the ghostly silence and dense dust of the berms between ISIS' Mosul and advancing Iraqi special forces that the final chapter of ISIS' extinction in Iraq will play out.
