One hostage has been killed in a standoff in a church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in France's Normandy region Tuesday, CNN affiliate BFMTV reports.
The teenage boy whose treatment sparked outrage over widespread abuse at juvenile detention centers in northern Australia, has spoken out for the first time.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called for a national investigation into allegations of abuse and torture at a juvenile detention center.
Suicide bombers from militant group Al Shabaab detonated two vehicles laden with explosives Tuesday near the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing at least 12 people, the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) said in a statement.
The Syrian suicide bomber who injured 15 people in a Sunday night attack on a music festival in Ansbach, Germany, left behind a video pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said Monday.
The attack which killed an elderly priest in France appears to have been quite deliberately targeted at the Catholic church. Paul Cruikshank examines why.
At least 19 people were killed and 26 injured in a stabbing spree at a facility for disabled people west of Tokyo, making it one of Japan's deadliest mass killings since World War II. Nine men and 10 women, ranging in age from 18 to 70, were killed in the attack.
The Olympics are always complicated. As viewers, we want to believe the hype -- we want to believe in the magic and innocence of the games. But we know there's a dark side. The Olympics has never been just good, clean fun.
Nearly 50 years after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, effectively ending the Cold War space race, the next generation of space discovery is nearing its own conclusion.
Whoever orchestrated the release of emails hacked from the Democratic Party computers knew exactly what they were doing. But while there's no question the content of the emails matters, it's worth widening the lens for some important and troubling context to the hack, context that points to outside interference from an outside power.
