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.
The year of 2012 was among the 10 warmest on record for global land and ocean surface temperature, showed an annual State of the Climate report released Tuesday by the American Meteorological Society.
Former US president George W. Bush underwent a successful heart surgery at a hospital in the US city of Dallas on Tuesday.
US Justice Department has filed sealed criminal charges against one or several Libyan militants in connection with an attack on the US diplomatic post in Benghazi.
US President Barack Obama confirmed that he would go to Russia this fall for a G20 summit but expressed disappointment that Russia had granted temporary asylum to Edward Snowden.
At least ten people were killed and another 63 injured when a boiler exploded Tuesday in an apartment building in Argentina's second-largest city of Rosario.
The Washington Post, the legendary US newspaper that broke the Watergate scandal in 1972, became a news story itself on Monday when The Washington Post Co announced it had been sold to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey Bezos.
The United States will review its key trade legislation with African nations in order to grasp growing opportunities on the African continent while trying to keep pace with competing emerging nations such as China, Brazil and India.
Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos announced Monday that he had agreed to purchase the Washington Post newspaper and some other papers owned by the Washington Post Co for $250 million.
The Washington Post Co said it has sold its flagship newspaper to the founder of Amazon for $250 million. China's publishing industry faces challenges
The White House on Saturday called a meeting of top US security officials to discuss potential terror threats in the Middle East following the announced closure of some US diplomatic missions there.
US issued a global travel alert over possible terrorist attacks after it announced the closure of some diplomatic missions in the Middle East and North Africa over the coming weekend. 
US to close some embassies Sunday for security reasons
A Brazilian court sentenced 25 police officers to 624 years in jail on Saturday for the killing of dozens of inmates two decades ago.
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