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A suicide attack on a busy commercial street in Baghdad has left at least 28 people dead and scores wounded, according to local authorities.

The daughter of the woman at the center of South Korea's presidential scandal has been arrested in Denmark after months in hiding, according to special prosecutors.

The Obama administration's failed policy of "strategic patience" toward Pyongyang contributed to the rapid development of North Korea's arsenal of mass destruction. The acceleration of its nuclear and ballistic missile program represents a grave threat to global peace and stability -- and a direct threat to the American homeland in the immediate future.

A pilot who allegedly passed out in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 in Canada was arrested on suspicion of being drunk, police said.

French workers have won the right to ignore business emails that arrive after hours.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that his country is close to testing an intercontinental ballistic missile.

In Istanbul's horrific New Year terror attack the message is clear: 2017 has begun, expect more of the same to come.

The political tumult that rocked the world in 2016 might be an appetizer for 2017.

Donald Trump has fans in Iraqi Kurdistan. One businessman has named his restaurant Trump Fish. And a soldier named his baby after the US President-elect.

Cologne police are alleged to have detained hundreds of men because they appeared to be of African origin for questioning on New Year's Eve.

If you ever see a particularly big, bright star in the night sky, chances are it may not be a star at all. It is probably Venus, the brightest planet visible from Earth.

Plenty of us turn to takeout when we're feeling too sick to cook. But a Belfast woman's order has gone viral after she asked for a side order of medicine with her food.

In San Jose, Costa Rica, sex workers are being given support to help them off the streets.

Twitter's top executive in China has flown the coop.

It may not have been the dominant headline, but make no mistake -- 2016 was the year when mass atrocities against children became the new normal.

Perched on a ledge in a Taipei apartment, Ge Ge -- aka Elder Brother -- looks satisfied as he surveys his new territory.

Before it became the scene of a New Year's Eve bloodbath, the Reina nightclub in Istanbul was a glittering waterside venue frequented by Turkey's wealthy secular millennials and international celebrities.

Turkey is so deeply polarized around the powerful persona of its president Recep Tayyip Erdogan that instead of asking why terror attacks are happening and how they can be stopped, the country's pro- and anti-Erdogan blocks are blaming each other.