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The Earth is on the verge of a mass extinction event.

Throughout 2016, terror attacks have ripped apart small towns and big cities in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. This weekend brought no respite.

A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for twin bombings in Istanbul that killed at least 38 people, mostly police officers, and wounded 155 others.

ISIS forces have retaken the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, according to Syrian government media, the ISIS media wing and a human rights monitor.

Security fears swept across Cairo on Monday as police probed the deadly bomb blast that ripped through a Coptic church the day before.

Air travelers will be able to fly from Australia to Europe without stopping after Qantas announced the first direct passenger route between the two continents.

It's not every day you get to hold a 700-year-old banknote in your hands.

Russian airstrikes drove ISIS fighters from Syria's Palmyra overnight, just hours after the militant group tried to regain control of the ancient city, a monitor said Sunday.

As many as 50 people were killed after a church in Uyo, Nigeria, collapsed on worshippers Saturday, officials said.

Watch Donald Trump get ready to take over the world's biggest job and a central question will likely come to mind: Is he carrying out a strategic plan months in the making, or is he largely winging it?

President-elect Donald Trump, saying he "has the right" to still do business deals, told Fox News he's turning down "billions of dollars of deals" to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

At least 20 people were wounded Saturday evening after twin explosions rocked Istanbul, according to Turkey's state news agency Anadolu.

In the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump focused more on politics than policy, but his few policy speeches suggested the direction he would go in if he won the White House. In May, from North Dakota, Trump delivered a major energy speech. If you listened to the whole thing, you would not only have heard that wind turbines are a big environmental hazard because they kill millions of birds, but you would have also fully anticipated that he would pick someone like Scott Pruitt, a committed opponent of the agency, as its head.

At least 20 people have died, while 15 have sustained injuries, after a car bomb exploded in Somalia on Sunday morning.

A fiery fuel tanker crash in Kenya on Saturday killed at least 33 people and injured many others, according to officials.

At least 29 people, mostly police officers, have been killed and 166 wounded in Saturday's twin bombings in Istanbul, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said in a press conference Sunday.

Mitch McConnell quashed efforts to push back on Russia as, according to the CIA, it interfered with election to get Trump elected. We need 9/11-type commission to probe how it happened, writes Paul Waldman.

A French ISIS operative suspected of enabling a terrorist attack on a tourist beach in Tunisia was killed by a US drone strike in late November, according to the Pentagon.