A teen who was beaten to death inside a church with an electrical cord was attacked because he had said that he no longer wished to be a member of the World of Life Christian Church.
The United States is entering a new theater in the War on Terror, sending troops and drones to the West African nation of Cameroon, which along with its neighbors is battling to defeat the terrorist group Boko Haram.
The Turkish government has fired a number of high-ranking security officials as public anger at a recent bombing in the capital of Ankara that killed 97 people and left hundreds more injured continues to grow.
A bomb attack ripped through a crowd of demonstrators in the Turkish capital of Ankara as they marched in opposition to renewed violence between the Turkish government and a Kurdish militia.
China has finished constructing lighthouses on disputed islands in the South China Sea despite objections by the United States and other nations in the region, signifying China's determination to assert itself in the region.
One of the three men who thwarted a terrorist attack on a high speed train in France, Air Force medic Spencer Stone, has been hospitalized after getting stabbed repeatedly in a fight outside a Sacramento, California bar.
A new controversy is surrounding Pope Francis after a video in which he calls people protesting a bishop accused of protecting priests who molested children, "dumb" has surfaced.
Memphis Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes attacked New York Knicks head coach Derek Fisher over the weekend after learning that Fisher was romantically involved with his ex-wife Gloria Govan.
An Ohio man called the police after he got "too high" on marijuana and nearly overdosed on snack foods.
Russia will deploy ground troops to Syria, further escalating its involvement in the conflict that has seen it launch airstrikes from a Syrian air base.
The United States will set free 6,000 people serving prison time for drug convictions in one of the most concrete and dramatic actions the country has taken as it seeks to shrink its prison population, which is the largest in the world.
The state of Alaska may become the first U.S. territory to move an entire community as a result of changes wrought by climate change.
The Vatican has fired a priest that came out as gay in public interviews and admitted that he had a partner, a violation of the vows of celibacy that all priests in the Catholic Church must take.
It seems Islamic State continues to expand its international reach by inspiring new offshoots as the murders of two foreigners in less than a week in Bangladesh show the group may have found support in the South Asian nation.
A U.S. airstrike ripped through a hospital operated by an international humanitarian organization in the Afghan city of Kunduz as the government fought to regain control from the Taliban, which recently overran the provincial capital.
