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Pope Francis says the rise of terrorism is being fueled by the worship of money.

It's early morning in the Ngong Hills, on the edge of the Great Rift Valley, and a group of athletes huddle together in prayer in tracksuits and long pants. It's notoriously chilly this time of year. 

The mother-in-law of Bernie Ecclestone, the head of Formula One auto racing, was freed Sunday after being kidnapped more than a week ago, authorities said.

Tokyo has elected its first female governor, the Arabic-speaking environmentalist and North Korea hawk Yuriko Koike.

Syria and Russia will establish four additional humanitarian corridors into Aleppo, Russian state media reported Sunday, a day after both governments said residents began using the routes to flee the besieged city.

Muslim community leaders have refused to bury one of the terrorists who killed a Catholic priest this week in northern France, according to the president of a local Muslim organization.

The surge in international tourists heading for Japan shows no signs of slowing.

On your marks, set, go -- the Rio Games are here and the next chapter in Olympic history is about to be written.

Young thrill-seekers in the Middle East have taken their drifting meets to private tracks and unlicensed garages where they can be as reckless as they please.

With more than 27,000 travelers passing through each day, this city landmark is still one of Thailand's busiest hubs.

Fethullah Gulen, the reclusive cleric accused by Turkey of hatching a military coup attempt, concedes that his supporters could have been involved in the putsch but again denied any direct connection.

From America to Britain to the United Nations, women are taking to the center of the political stage. At this week's Democratic convention, Hillary Clinton was officially selected as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, accepting the nomination with a striking video message that opened with a symbolic shattering of glass.

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An ISIS hostage-taking at an oil field near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has ended with the attackers killed and their captives safely freed, a senior security source in the city told CNN.

In what may be a sign of a cultural shift in India, well-known Bollywood filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui has been convicted of raping an American researcher.

Hundreds of soldiers detained in the fallout of the July 15 coup attempt have been released, Turkish state media reported.

Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for two suicide car bombings Sunday in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, an attack that left five civilians and a police officer dead.

The outbreak of terror attacks in Northern Europe has also translated into growing hostility toward migration, writes Tim Lister.

As Turkey returns to some degree of normality following the July 15 coup attempt, which claimed the lives of 246 people and 24 coup plotters, the government has wasted little time in their response.

Dozens of families have started to trickle out of war-ravaged Aleppo, days after the Syrian army announced it had encircled the city and cut off rebel supply routes, according to reports.