Police said Thursday the victim of a fatal knife attack in central London overnight was an American woman in her 60s and ruled out terrorism as the likely motive.
The horrors of life in rebel-held eastern Aleppo are worsening, residents say, describing acute food shortages and increased aerial bombardment in the battle for control of the key Syria city.
A teenager convicted of raping a boy in Iran was hanged in what an Amnesty International official called proof of the country's "sickening enthusiasm" for putting juvenile offenders to death.
The Saudi government said it would provide the workers with free food, health care and flights to get home after their employers abandoned them and stopped paying their wages.
Within minutes of skidding across the runway, all 282 passengers on board an Emirates flight, which exploded in flames in Dubai on Wednesday, were safely evacuated.
If you think skateboarding is a pursuit for hooded teenagers congregating under a bridge and not interested in reaching the pinnacle of world sport, it's time to think again.
New Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte campaigned hard on a no-nonsense approach to crime -- and now the full impact of what exactly this means for those on the streets is emerging.
In the midst of an "unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport," this isn't an easy time for the men in white coats in their ongoing fight to beat the doping cheats.
Bollywood filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison after being convicted of raping a 35-year-old American researcher.
The women's football competition in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games may have already started, but the one event that's on everyone's mind this week is the opening ceremony at the iconic Maracana Stadium, expected to be seen by 3 billion people around the world on Friday.
Earl, which is moving in the Caribbean toward Belize and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, has been upgraded from a tropical storm to hurricane, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
