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.
Prospects for US Senate passage of an immigration bill with strong bipartisan support brightened on Wednesday when a group of Republican and Democratic negotiators reached a tentative deal on ways to shore up border security, senators said.
The United States uses drones for surveillance in some limited law enforcement situations, FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Wednesday.
Brazil's two biggest cities agreed on Wednesday to revoke an increase in public transportation fares that set off demonstrations.
Visiting US President Barack Obama defended the country's internet surveillance programs on Wednesday, saying that lives have been saved and threats averted thanks to the monitored information.
Journalist Michael Hastings, whose 2010 Rolling Stone magazine profile of the US military chief in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, led to the general being relieved of command, died on Tuesday in a car wreck.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday hailed the NATO's transfer of security responsibility in Afghanistan as a "critical milestone".
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Tuesday unveiled a new mining regulation bill that outlines how royalties will be distributed.
Iceland has received an informal approach from an intermediary who says Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed the US government's secret surveillance programmes, wants to seek asylum there. Snowden spying claims rejected
President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday sought to defuse a massive protest movement sweeping Brazil, acknowledging the need for better public services and more responsive governance as demonstrations continued.
The second New York Forum Africa concluded in Libreville, Gabon on Sunday. The forum saw people from around the world discuss the future of Africa but the lingua franca soon became a hot topic.
Women may be able to start training as US Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy commandos a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon.
Snowden fought back against his critics,saying the government's "litany of lies" about the programs compelled him to act.
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