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Fighting erupts north of Aleppo as ceasefire expires
Syrian government forces battled rebels north of Aleppo on Thursday as a ceasefire expired in the city itself, the Syrian Observatory for ...Islamic State bombing of Shiite area in Baghdad kills 52
The Islamic State group said one of its suicide bombers carried out an attack near a market in Baghdad Wednesday, as officials ...NASA says 1,284 new planets found by Kepler telescope
NASA announced Tuesday the discovery of 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, more than doubling the number of exoplanets found with ...Germany beats Slovakia 5-1, Danish player in hospital
Germany beat Slovakia 5-1 in Tuesday\'s action at the hockey world championship, which also saw Danish defenseman Jesper Jensen taken to hospital ...Bangladesh hangs Islamist leader for rape and genocide in 1971 war
Bangladesh hanged Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami on Wednesday for genocide and other crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence ...Obama to make historic Hiroshima visit, highlight nuclear security
U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima later this month and become the first sitting U.S. president to do so since World ...Rodrigo Duterte wins Philippines presidential elections
Geraldine Roman on Tuesday celebrated overcoming "bigotry, hatred and discrimination" as results showed she had become the first transgender politician to win ...Earthlings watch as tiny Mercury sails past the sun
Tiny Mercury, the solar system\'s innermost planet, sailed across the face of the sun on Monday, a celestial dance that occurs about ...Austrian chancellor quits after far-right triumph
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann quit Monday, bowing to intense pressure two weeks after the opposition anti-immigration far-right dealt his coalition a historic ...Cameron warns Brexit threatens peace in Europe
Prime Minister David Cameron warned Monday that a British exit from the EU would threaten peace on the continent, as the campaign ...




