Police say an 18-year-old man arrested outside the Sydney Opera House has been charged by counterterrorism investigators with threatening to destroy property.
Scores of Syrian non-government humanitarian agencies working in the battered country have suspended their coordination with the United Nations, whose relief efforts, they charge, are controlled by the brutal Bashar Al-Assad regime.
French police detained three women believed to be planning an imminent terror attack in an operation south of Paris Thursday evening, the country's interior minister said.
North Korea’s crackpot dictator Kim Jong-un has banned his people from using sarcasm in their everyday conversations in a fresh crackdown on criticism of his leadership.
Asked on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Thursday what he would do about the conflict in Aleppo, U.S. presidential candidate Gary Johnson replied, "what is Aleppo?" In the U.S., his comments sparked debate over the lack of foreign policy discussions in these presidential elections.
Islamic radicals attacked 200 Christians at a Catholic mass in Indonesia, including children, and forced a priest to flee the church after he was threatened by the mob who harassed him as he read the Bible during a memorial service.
More than 70 humanitarian organizations are accusing the United Nations of allowing the Syrian government to manipulate relief efforts and keep desperately needed aid from thousands of people in besieged areas.
A series of cable cars broke down over the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps Thursday, leaving 45 people trapped in mid-air overnight, France's interior minister said.
A prison warden in Ecuador is in hot water after it was discovered that security guards were marking visitors to the penitentiary with hand stamps featuring the Nazi swastika.
An Iranian Kurdish rebel group received military training in weapons and explosives from U.S. and European advisers as part of the international program backing Kurds in the war against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the group's commander told The Associated Press.
The dispute over Gabon's presidential election has intensified as opposition candidate Jean Ping is mounting a legal challenge and demanding a recount.
Four people suspected of being "radical Islamists" have been detained in a terrorist investigation stemming from the discovery of a car parked next to Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral with six gas canisters inside.
A court in Argentina has sentenced the head of the country's air force to 25 years in prison for the abduction and disappearance of activists during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.