A Mexican census report says 1.38 million Mexicans identify themselves as having African ancestors, equal to about 1.2 percent of the country's population.
Dozens of fishermen have burned a boat as part of a threat to force out a ship operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in Mexico's Gulf of California.
Dramatic new video from the ISIS stronghold of Mosul captures the pitched battle between the black-clad jihadist army and the U.S.-backed Iraqi forces - and the innocent civilians caught in the crossfire.
Monaco's prosecutor and police chief say four people have been arrested and almost all the stolen pieces of jewelry have been found, two days after an armed heist at a luxurious Cartier jewelry shop in Monte Carlo.
The two southern European countries that absorb nearly all boat-borne refugees from North Africa and Turkey are taking steps to halt the arrivals, with both saying they have reached their limit.
In what's been described as a health care "horror," a pack of dogs dragged a 70-year-old woman from a hospital in India before chewing up her body, according to a local report.
The family of an American slain in last week's terror attack in London expressed gratitude for the kindness of strangers on Monday, offering hope and resolve that some good would result from the tragedy.
For the first time in five years, a new Israeli-sponsored resolution was adopted at the United Nations on Friday, and has been hailed as a "significant achievement" for the often ostracized Israeli Mission.
For the first time in five years, a new Israeli-sponsored resolution was adopted at the United Nations on Friday, and has been hailed as a "significant achievement" for the often ostracized Israeli Mission.
The 15-day jail sentence imposed Monday on Alexei Navalny is nothing new for the Kremlin's most visible domestic foe, and is unlikely to be more than a brief interruption of his campaign against what he calls "the party of crooks and thieves." He's repeatedly been jailed, endured a year of house arrest and three convictions that could have brought him significant prison time.
Killer Khalid Masood was seen driving around Westminster in the lead-up to the London terror attack that saw him plow an SUV into crowds at 76 miles per hour, according to reports.
A Belarusian human rights group says more than 1,000 people have been arrested for weekend protests in the former Soviet Republic and that about 150 of them have been sentenced to jail terms of up to 25 days.
The United States, Russia, China and more than a score of other countries are sitting out new talks at the United Nations toward a treaty that would ban nuclear weapons.
Prosecutors in northern Italy say money problems may have driven a father to kill his two young children at his family's home before he jumped off a cliff and killed himself.