The US-led coalition launched strikes against Islamic State militants besieging a Kurdish town in Syria, on Wednesday, as world leaders at the UN prepared for talks on battling the jihadists.
Police in Melbourne have shot dead a "known terror suspect" who stabbed two officers, a day after the Islamic State group called for Muslims to indiscriminately kill Australians, officials said on Wednesday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron may announce as early as this week that Britain is ready to join airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and that he plans to seek Parliament's approval for such action, government sources said on Tuesday.
A new climate fund has received pledges of $2.3 billion, including a billion each from Germany and France, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, but the figure remained far below the goal.
US health officials laid out on Tuesday worst-case and best-case scenarios for the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, warning that the number of infected people could rise to at least 1.4 million by mid-January - or peak well below that, if efforts to control the outbreak are ramped up.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pulling out all the fashion stops for his upcoming visit to the United States, hiring a top Mumbai designer to create outfits that will sell his vision of a newly confident, aspirational India.
Experimental Ebola drugs, including compounds from Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Sarepta and Tekmira, will be tested in West African states for the first time in a bid to fast-track trials, the Wellcome Trust said on Tuesday.
The largest gathering of world leaders ever to deal with climate change opened at the United Nations on Tuesday with a call to action that advocates say would put the planet on course toward reversing global warming.
A survey from the Pew Research Center indicates support for same-sex marriage in the US could be leveling off after several years of dramatic growth in the acceptance of equal rights for gays and lesbians.
If your mother told you to eat carrots so you'd be able to see in the dark, she was right.
The United States and its Arab allies struck from the air inside Syria for the first time on Tuesday, killing dozens of Islamic State fighters and members of another group linked to al-Qaida.
A look at the domestic legal steps the United States has taken to authorize military action around the world:
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