A North Carolina man is dead after his family called the police to carry out a welfare check and the police shot the man.
A New York City police officer has been indicted for the fatal shooting of an unarmed resident named Akai Gurley.
The government of Niger has decided to deploy its soldiers to battle Boko Haram, which has been carrying out atrocities throughout west Africa from its bases in Nigeria.
Only two months after U.S. President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro announced the beginning of a process to normalize relations between Cuba and the United States, Netflix launched its streaming service in Cuba.
According to a study released on Monday, the vaccine used to provide protection against Human Papillomavirus, a virus that is known to cause cervical cancer in women, does not encourage girls to practice unsafe sex.
An 11-year-old Ohio girl stands accused of brutally and fatally beating a 2-month-old to death.
Five football players in Washington State have been charged with the attempted rape of a mentally disabled student.
A rare monkey was killed after it fell into a zoo lake and was then eaten by otters, which is just the latest in a series of tragedies that have befallen the Bristol Zoo.
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The United States and Europe seem to have major disagreements about what steps should be taken next in order to help bring the crisis in eastern Ukraine to a close.
The Justice Department has brought charges against six people accused of supporting terrorist activities overseas.
A Kenyan member of parliament was murdered in the capital of Nairobi as he traveled through the city with his entourage.
A family orchestrated the kidnapping of their six-year-old son in order to teach him a lesson about being too nice.
A Dutch and Swiss maritime company have had to change the name of one of their vessels after an uproar was caused by the realization the ship is named after a convicted war criminal.
The United States has stationed more Black Hawk helicopters in northern Iraq to make it easier to mount rescue missions should a coalition pilot crash during operations against the Islamic State.
