The government of Qatar has arrested BBC journalists for their investigation into the conditions of workers, said to be treated as slaves, building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup.
Three Egyptian judges were killed after news broke that the deposed, democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi would be sentenced to death by the military government.
Star Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell tried to assuage any concerns he could become the next Ricky Williams by saying that marijuana was "not important," to him.
Hundreds of people kayaked and rowed through Puget Sound to express their displeasure with Shell's decision to resume drilling in the Arctic.
An Iranian vessel under the control of the Revolutionary Guard opened fire on a commercial shipping vessel for the second time in less than a month.
The capital of Burundi was engulfed in violence after members of the military who tried to depose the sitting president attack strategically valuable sites.
Two students are in the hospital after their school bus was fired upon.
An Iowa family is behind bars after an investigation discovered they were shipping massive amounts of weaponry and ammunition to Lebanon.
As Russia continues to probe the sea and air defenses of various European states, a Swedish group has come up with a novel way to try and keep Russian forces out of Sweden's territorial waters.
At least two people are dead after prisoners took control of a maximum security prison in Nebraska.
A Northern Irish fishing boat caught one of the biggest hauls in its career, but rather than tons of fish, it may have been tons of steel in the form of a Russian submarine.
The Royal Moroccan Air Force says that it has lost one its F-16 fighter jets participating in a Saudi Arabia-led bombing campaign in Yemen.
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in prison for corruption charges in an effort to legitimize the military dictatorship of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, whose regime has killed thousands of protesters.
Australian authorities carried out a number of raids and made one arrest in what is being described as a successful effort to stop a terrorist bombing in the city of Melbourne.
Vietnam has joined China in the race to stake territorial claims in the South China Sea by building artificial islands.
