Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has inaugurated an enormous monument to himself in the capital of Ashgabat.
As the Taliban continues to make territorial gains in Afghanistan, the government has resorted to forming militias and seeking the assistance of former warlords who dominated the country's politics before the Taliban took control in 1996.
As the Turkish economy stalls, new polling suggests that the ruling AKP party may not be able to gain a majority in parliament, all but decimating the hopes of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to establish a new constitution and presidential system with him at the center.
China has logged an official complaint about spy plane flights in the South China Sea at the same time the Philippines is demanding greater US involvement just days after a harrowing showdown between the Chinese and US navies.
The six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray have been indicted, a stark contrast to the officers involved in the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, whose killers never faced a judge.
The Islamic State is continuing to make dramatic gains despite the fact that an international coalition of some of the world’s largest militaries has taken effort to halt the group’s growth.
A bomb has exploded at a Shia mosque in the predominantly Sunni nation of Saudi Arabia, suggesting that the sectarian warfare that has engulfed the region may soon overwhelm one of the Arab world's most stable countries.
Tunisia, long neglected by US foreign policy despite being the only country to emerge from the Arab Spring with a functional, democratic government, is set to get a major boost from a number of US initiatives.
For the first time, there appears to be concrete evidence that the Turkish government was arming Islamist fighters in Syria.
The Chinese Navy urged a US surveillance aircraft to leave the area as it patrolled over disputed territory in the South China Sea.
Doug Hughes, a Florida man who made international headlines by landing a gyrocopter on the Capitol lawn, has been charged with six federal offenses but says that he isn't done protesting for campaign finance reform just yet.
Thousands of McDonald's employees demanding higher wages have descended on the city of Oak Brook, IL for the company's annual shareholder meeting, just as the city of Los Angeles became the largest municipality in the country to say that it would increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour.
An oil spill is wreaking havoc along the beaches of California, turning the pristine shores of Santa Barbara into a veritable wasteland.
The Ukrainian government has said that it will charge recently captured Russian soldiers in its custody with terrorism offenses that could result in sentences of life in prison.
Saudi Arabia, one of the world's most repressive regimes, is looking to hire as many as eight new executioners to behead and dismember people found guilty of various crimes.
