The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the United States carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology - all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned.
US-led coalition members carrying out airstrikes against Islamic State jihadists met in Paris on Tuesday as Iraq's leader pleaded for more support against what he said was an increase in the proportion of foreigners in the group.
A New Zealand union is going to court to determine whether Chinese workers who were allegedly exploited while working for the state-owned railway are covered by the country's employment law.
A 92-year-old cancer survivor rocked her way into the record books on Sunday, becoming the oldest woman to finish a marathon.
Australia's affliction with alcohol sees its adults spending 91.5 million hours of every month hung over, according to data released on Monday.
Mohammed Omar, the commander known on the battlefield as Pakhsaparan, or "the wall breaker", barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking to augment hard-pressed Afghan forces in a strategy fraught with risk.
South Korea announced plans to ban those suspected of being infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome from leaving the country amid mounting criticism over the government's botched initial response to the often-fatal disease.
Bangladeshi police charged 41 people, including the owner of the Rana Plaza factory complex, with murder on Monday over the building's collapse in 2013 that killed 1,137 people.
Every time he looks in a mirror, Laith Ahmed is worried. As of Monday, the young Iraqi's hopelessly hairless chin could land him in an Islamic State group jail.
The number of Islamic State fighters is swelling as more recruits leave their home countries to join the militants, posing a tougher challenge for the United States in its fight against the extremist group.
The legal authority for US spy agencies' collection of US citizens' phone records and other data expired on Sunday after the US Senate failed to pass legislation extending the powers.
The United Nations said on Monday that more than 6,400 people had been killed in Ukraine, and despite a slowdown in fighting, millions more are suffering from abuses and hardship.
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