A senior North Korean diplomat, along with his wife and children, has defected and reached safety in South Korea, making it the highest-level diplomatic defection from the Pyongyang regime in history.
Five years after President Barack Obama first called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, the last American ambassador to that war-torn country issued a scathing criticism of U.S. policy.
The head of the European Olympic Committees, Irishman Pat Hickey, has been arrested in Rio de Janeiro as part of an alleged international ticket scalping scam.
While the medal podiums fill and rousing cheers echo around the Olympic stadiums in Rio, the homicide squad doesn't get the night off. Especially not in the violent slum area of Baixada Fluminense.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has ordered an independent investigation into a raid on a compound in Juba, South Sudan, in which one person was killed and others were raped and beaten by uniformed men. The investigation will also look into allegations that nearby UN personnel failed to come to their rescue.
A son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was kidnapped from a restaurant in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Jalisco Attorney General Eduardo Almaguer said at a news conference Tuesday.
A small fishing boat bobbing in the Mozambique Channel might look like a vulnerable site -- especially when compared to what lies beneath it. But lurking below the whale shark -- the largest fish in the world -- is no threat to these fishermen; nor they to it. In fact, these locals might just be the key to saving this majestic creature.
