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Opposition fighters in the Syrian city of Aleppo claimed responsibility for at least two car bombings against regime positions Friday, in conjunction with what they say is a new rebel offensive to try to break the siege around rebel-controlled eastern neighborhoods.

Shen Wei's photographs aren't ordinary portraits -- they're dreams.

The UN World Food Programme fears "an entire generation could be crippled by hunger" as the food crisis in war-torn Yemen grows worse.

Did you hear the one about how Lindsay Lohan wants to help refugees in Turkey via an energy drink?

Tony Blair thinks Brits may be having second thoughts about Brexit.

It is a landscape that inspires awe in those who explore its vast and varied wildernesses but few people have been quite so devoted to Patagonia as Kris Tompkins.

Information filters out of Mosul in brief calls, smuggled messages and first-hand accounts from escapees. It's fragmentary and anecdotal, but a clear picture is emerging: ISIS leaders are preparing both for fierce battles and their own escape.

Has there been a more miserable year for pop music?

There are many craters on Mars -- but this one is different.

An enormous Antarctic bay, home to penguins and killer whales, became the world's largest protected marine area on Friday.

Since 2001, Jeison Aristizábal has dedicated his life to giving thousands of young people with disabilities—like himself—a brighter future in Colombia.

With the ISIS heartland in Iraq and Syria imploding, its support groups in the periphery, as well as rival groups such as al Qaeda, are gathering momentum.

More than two thirds of the world's wildlife could be gone by the end of the decade if action isn't taken soon, a new report from the World Wildlife Fund revealed on Thursday.

On Thursday, tensions surrounding protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline reached a new pitch, with fires and forcible removal of protestors reported. Over the past few months, 269 people, including journalists, minors and "Divergent" star Shailene Woodley, have been arrested for their efforts to fight the pipeline. The controversial $3.7 billion project is set to cover 1,172 miles and cross the Missouri river less than a mile from the Standing Rock Reservation, which opponents say puts the tribe's drinking water at risk. While Dakota Access LLC has continued construction on the project, advocates have been risking their safety and engaging in non-violent direct actions in order to protect their community from a dangerous project.

Scores of children were left with nowhere to go Thursday night as French riot police gathered outside a refugee camp in Calais.

The Earth's next mass extinction -- the first caused by people -- is on the horizon. And the consequences are almost unthinkably dire: Three-quarters of species could disappear.