Legendary playwright Edward Albee -- whose works included "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" -- has died at the age of 88 after a short illness, according to his personal assistant Jakob Holder. Albee died Friday afternoon at his home in Montauk, New York.
Leaving their devastated homeland behind, Alan Mohammad and his sister, Gyan, embarked on a journey that would see them negotiate hazardous mountain terrain and cross perilous seas.
The family of Tiziana Cantone, an Italian woman who committed suicide after sexually explicit videos of her went viral on the Internet, has urged the Italian authorities "to act so that her death was not in vain."
Japan is planning on upping its activities in the South China Sea through joint training patrols with the United States and exercises with regional navies, Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said.
The sounds of intermittent shelling are a reminder of just how fragile the nationwide truce in Syria is. Syrian authorities gave our crew access to an area that saw some of the worst fighting in the run-up to the cessation of hostilities: Aleppo's southern suburb of Ramouseh.
Just weeks after ISIS suffered a major loss when its chief spokesman was taken out in an air attack, the US announced it had quickly killed his designated successor in a strike.
US-backed government militia in Libya are pushing forward in their battle to expel ISIS from the coastal Libyan city of Sirte, despite ongoing attacks from the terror group.
A leak has caused the closure of a crucial pipeline that carries gasoline to the eastern United States, a disruption that threatens to drive up prices and leave service stations without fuel to sell.
Taiwan is about to be soaked by its second severe storm in just three days, with typhoon Malakas forecast to pass by the northern end of the island early on Saturday.
It's day five of the "reduction of violence" in Syria, and even if the guns haven't fallen entirely silent the death toll among civilians has shown a marked decline. But accusations of bad faith continue to fly in all directions, and the next steps to consolidate the relative quiet are an even greater challenge.
The man who publicly accused Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte of running a hit squad and personally killing people won't be given state protection.
