SYDNEY — Five people escaped from a Sydney cafe where a gunman took an unknown number of hostages during morning rush hour today. Two people inside the cafe earlier held...
JOHANNESBURG — Oscar Pistorius again faces the possibility of a murder conviction after a South African judge ruled today that prosecutors can appeal against the double-...
TOKYO — A Japanese space explorer took off today on a six-year journey to blow a crater in a remote asteroid and try to bring back rock samples.
The explorer, named Haya...
Global meeting held in Brussels
BRUSSELS — A global fight against Islamic State militants will likely take years to fully succeed, but nations are prepared to engage “for...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Nearly 2,000 Brazilian couples have said “I do” in the largest collective wedding Rio de Janeiro has seen.
The state of Rio de Janeiro hosted the ceremo...
He concludes trip to Turkey
ISTANBUL — Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians demanded an end to the persecution of religious minorities...
ISTANBUL — His head bowed and hands clasped in front of him, Pope Francis stood Saturday for two minutes of silent prayer facing east inside one of Istanbul’s most impor...
MOSCOW — The legendary Russian hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov, whose teams won three Olympic gold medals, has died after an undisclosed long illness. He was 84.
Russia’s K...
BAGHDAD — Baghdad’s neighborhood of Gorayaat, a small Shiite enclave on a bend in the Tigris River, exemplifies the failures of Iraq’s security agencies trying to protec...
Others feared to be dead
CAIRO — A shoddy seven-story building collapsed early this morning in a populous eastern Cairo district, killing at least 17 people while several...
