The U.S. military will be breaking down more gender barriers by expanding combat positions to women.
U.S. Air Force has certified SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for national security space missions, ending monopoly of United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Corporation and The Boeing Company.
The satellite, DMSP 13, was launched in 1995.
With Russian aggression in Eastern Europe continuing unabated, the United States and a number of NATO allies decided it was time to send a message that they mean business.
Fearing more attacks after the brutal assault on the newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the French government has deployed 10,000 soldiers to beef up security around the country.
Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil, broke into tears as she made a statement about the release of a commission report into torture during Brazil's military dictatorship, just a day after the United States released its own investigation into torture by the CIA after Sept. 11, 2001.
The Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf pleaded with U.S. president Obama for assistance to help the country cope with the mounting Ebola crisis.
