President Vladimir Putin hailed the close ties between the Russian and Turkey militaries on Friday as he hosted Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks about Syria.
Bruce Klingner, a former CIA deputy division chief in Korea, said the isolated nation is in “late stages of developing” a nuclear missile that could cross the ocean and strike the U.S.
A Canadian judge who asked a woman why she couldn't keep her knees together after she alleged sexual assault in a trial said Thursday that he is resigning from the bench.
French Foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said that while construction giant LafargeHolcim can do what they want as a private company, the company should consider the social responsibility it has and the fact the move could hurt its business with other clients.
German police said Friday that two Italian tourists were among nine people injured when a man randomly attacked passengers with an ax in Duesseldorf's main train station.
Seven people died after a helicopter carrying business executives slammed into a television tower and crashed to the ground Friday in Turkey, the mayor of Istanbul announced.
Thousands of wild boars, which have been known to attack people when enraged, pose a nuisance for Japanese residents returning to towns evacuated after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.
North Korea wasted no time in bashing South Korea's ousted president Friday, calling her a "common criminal" -- and signaling that the countries' decades-long war was no close to ending.
In a move that could transform the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has said he’s open to the possibility of ordaining married men to minister in remote communities facing priest shortages.
The United Nations says South Sudan's cholera outbreak has reached the country's second-largest city, as the number of cases nationwide rises beyond 5,500.
Police on Friday were hunting for two gunmen who opened fire in a cafe in the Swiss city of Basel, leaving two people dead and a third critically wounded.
A blaze that killed at least 35 girls at a shelter for troubled youths erupted when some of them set fire to mattresses to protest rapes and other mistreatment at the badly overcrowded institution, the parent of one victim said Thursday.