UC Santa Barbara students attend a candlelight vigil following Friday's series of drive-by shootings that left 7 people dead in the Isla Vista section of Santa Barbara May 24, 2014.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday appointed Haoliang Xu of China as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
Two college friends of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were due in federal court on Tuesday to face charges of obstruction of justice for removing evidence from Tsarnaev's dorm room after the devastating attack.
The Brazilian government announced it had again postponed the bidding process for a bullet train project that links the country's two largest cities.
Junior life guards jump off the Ocean Beach pier to help raise money for their Junior Lifeguard Organization at Ocean Beach, California August 12, 2013
US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced plans to establish a review group to look at the government's intelligence collection methods.
The United States and the Philippines begin formal negotiations this week to increase the rotational presence of US forces in the former US colony.
A man used a handgun to kill his 9-year-old son and then himself in Manchester, the largest city of the US state of New Hampshire, authorities said Sunday.
Lightning set fire to a storage tank at Venezuela's Puerto La Cruz oil refinery on Sunday, the president said.
The father of Edward Snowden, the fugitive former US spy agency contractor, has received a Russian visa and will travel there shortly to see his son, he and his lawyer said on Sunday.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called US President Barack Obama's announcement of plans to limit sweeping US government surveillance programs a victory of sorts for fugitive former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.
The plane accident that killed four people in a Connecticut neighborhood was not the first crash for the pilot.
A harrowing weeklong search for a missing California teenager ended Saturday when FBI agents rescued the girl and shot and killed her apparent kidnapper in the Idaho wilderness.
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