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Seventy-five years ago today, hundreds of Japanese bombers attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. America's shock, and its grief for the more than 2,000 US military dead on this date of "infamy" led to overwhelming unity of purpose as we entered a world war.

An earthquake rocked Indonesia in the early morning hours. Rescuers are still looking for survivors in the rubble.

The recent activity in Aleppo, which has seen Syrian government forces retake control of large parts of the city, confirms that there is no military solution to the conflict in Syria. Only a widely accepted political settlement can end the fighting and stitch the country back together.

In Syria, a war is flattening eastern Aleppo. There are destroyed minarets, a burnt down 14th century souq, a number of perished neighborhoods and thousands of casualties.

What was life like for Russians such as Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin in the months leading up to "the most tragic moment" of that nation's history: the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917?

A huge political scandal has forced the typically elusive leaders of South Korea's biggest family-run conglomerates to face an extraordinary public grilling by lawmakers.

Donald Trump wants to cancel a government order for a new Air Force One.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says he will run as the Socialist Party's candidate in presidential elections next year.

The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, warned Britain on Tuesday it may only have 18 months to strike an exit deal from the bloc.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a ban on full-face veils in the country, during a speech at her party's conference on Tuesday.

Donald Trump's nomination of retired Marine Gen. James Mattis to become his secretary of defense means that America's forgotten wars are finally being remembered, at least for a while.

The five world leaders stand close together, all firmly at the helm of their respective nations, which together could lay claim to leading the free world.

The US military this month will return to Japan's government more than 9,800 acres of land it has held since World War II, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Tuesday.

Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old bearing witness to the siege of eastern Aleppo with a flurry of posts, is back on Twitter after her account appeared to have been deleted.

It doesn't seem like President-elect Donald Trump is going to stop tweeting any time soon. Unless his advisers take away his Internet access, the basic means of communication that he used as a candidate will become his bully pulpit as president for the next four years. He will continue to provide, in 140-character bursts, nonstop commentary from the Oval Office and -- on the weekends -- from Trump Tower in New York City.

On a barren patch of desert in northern Iraq, Abu Tiba and hundreds of other civilians wait for the torment to end.

If you're looking to hole up in the middle of nowhere, there's a hut in a box for that.

Four years ago, I was in Myanmar's Rakhine State soon after deadly violence erupted between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Rohingya Muslims. It was a horrendous scene. And it's happening again.