Amid persistent setbacks in the fight against Islamic State. US President Barack Obama turned his military's focus to the Sunni-Shiite divide, ordering hundreds of troops to Iraq to better integrate Iraqi forces and lay the groundwork to retake Ramadi and other key cities.
Islamic State has "global ambitions", and representatives of governments and technology giants said in Australia on Thursday that more must be done to tackle the group's use of social media for recruitment.
When Jason Matthews retired after more than three decades as a CIA operative, writing fiction provided a form of therapy.
A landslide triggered by heavy rainfall buried six villages in Nepal's mountainous northeast, and at least 15 people sleeping in their homes are believed to have been killed, officials said on Thursday.
Cuba's growing international trendiness combined with the government's topsy-turvy labor regulations are making sculptors, painters and other artists some of the richest people on the island.
A son of migrant farm workers in California will be the next United States poet in chief.
The dance hall is closed. There's no beer at the bar. And restaurant patrons have to quench their thirst with soda.
A small Czech village has become a center of the global boom in retro records, as antiquated vinyl-pressing machines turn out the tunes of rock stars from Madonna to the Rolling Stones.
Wild chimpanzees enjoying opportunistic binges on palm wine have helped shed light on a theory about evolution, scientists said on Wednesday.
An Australian state government will conduct a survey to reveal the actual size of its endangered crocodile population for the first time in a decade, local media reported on Wednesday.
President of the Republic of Korea Park Geun-hye postponed a US visit on Wednesday to supervise the handling of an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome.
Pakistan has executed a man who was 15 when he was sentenced to death for murder and whose lawyers say was tortured into confessing, in a case that has prompted concern among rights groups and the United Nations.
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