From prime minister to ordinary people, Japanese responded with shock on Sunday to a video purportedly showing one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State group had been killed.
The United States and its coalition partners have conducted more than two dozen airstrikes against targets of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq in the past two days, the Pentagon said on Saturday.
Greece began voting on Sunday in a crucial general election that could bring the anti-austerity Syriza Party to power and lead to a renegotiation of the country's international bailout.
Shortly before 11 am on the last Saturday in May, a heavily laden white Mitsubishi truck pulled into the Fuji Motors East Africa car dealership in an industrial neighborhood on the northern edge of Mombasa.
Russia blocked a Western-backed UN Security Council statement on Saturday that would have condemned the indiscriminate shelling in Ukraine's southeastern city of Mariupol that has killed about 30 civilians and injured more than 90.
With Li Na in retirement and not defending her title at the Australian Open, there are far fewer Chinese flags and fans with painted faces in the stands at Melbourne Park.
Let's talk twirling: To twirl or not to twirl? This is now a question at the Australian Open.
Serena Williams is using her love of fashion to send a powerful feminist message at this year's Australian Open, while Rafael Nadal is more concerned with feeling fresh in his ever-shrinking shorts.
There is a big difference between the Venus Williams of, say, the year 2000 and the Venus of 2015.
Even casual Israeli basketball fans begin their day with an update on the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the newfound obsession with the NBA franchise has little to do with superstar LeBron James.
The fluorescent yellow outfit Victoria Azarenka wore as she dismantled Caroline Wozniacki at the Australian Open on Thursday was a one-word fashion statement - loud.
Lleyton Hewitt is not quitting tennis just yet after his latest early exit from a Grand Slam tournament - this time in the second round at his cherished Australian Open.
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