U.S. airstrike may have killed wanted al Qaeda leader

U.S. warplanes targeted suspected terrorist thought to have led gas plant attack in Algeria in 2013 that killed at least 35 hostages

• Jun 15, 2015

South African judge orders Sudan president's detainment

ICC has long sought Omar al-Bashir's arrest over war crimes in Darfur, but no country has dared act on it so far

• Jun 14, 2015

​Lessons from the Battle of Waterloo

Historian Bernard Cornwell on what the decisive 19th century battle teaches us about war and its effects

• Jun 14, 2015

Scientist claims forced resignation over sexist comments

Nobel Prize-winner Tim Hunt's troubles started when he said their was "trouble with girls" who worked in laboratories

• Jun 14, 2015

"Topless tourist" returns to U.K., apologizes to Malaysia

Eleanor Hawkins spent three days in jail in Malaysia after posing nude for pics on sacred mountain just ahead of deadly earthquake

• Jun 14, 2015

Dangerous zoo animals escape amid flooding in Tbilisi

Escaped hippo cornered in Georgian capital's main square; tigers and lions also on the loose; three zoo workers killed in disaster

• Jun 14, 2015

Kurds move to cut off ISIS supply lines in Syria

Peshmerga closing in on ISIS-held town along Turkish border that is key to flow of foreign fighters and supplies to terrorists' de facto capital

• Jun 14, 2015

Record-book wedding proves love has no age limit

103-year-old George Kirby and Doreen Luckie, 91, finally tie the knot after being an item for 27 years

• Jun 13, 2015

Dickerson: One tough mother

Hillary Clinton's campaign is going to sell her as a fighter like no other

• Jun 12, 2015

Miss Zimbabwe stripped of title for posing nude

Pageant organizers removed Emily Kachote's title after photographs emerged of the now former beauty queen posing naked

• Jun 12, 2015

Airstrikes destroy part of Yemen's UNESCO heritage site

Saudi-led airstrikes targeting rebels and their allies in Yemen destroy historic houses

• Jun 12, 2015

North Korea accuses U.S. of targeting it with anthrax

Country's U.N. ambassador claims U.S. trying to use "deadly weapons of mass destruction" against N. Korea

• Jun 12, 2015

Germanwings co-pilot researched deadly drugs, living will: prosecutors

Newly released information suggests Andreas Lubitz was mulling other means of killing himself before ultimately flying plane carrying 150 into mountain

• Jun 12, 2015

4 foreigners sentenced for posing nude on Malaysia peak

Westerners face jail time and a fine for obscene behavior in a public place; local official had blamed their stripping for causing earthquake

• Jun 12, 2015

Pakistan abruptly closes Save the Children's offices

Sudden closure of international charity's offices in Islamabad sparks ire among human rights activists

• Jun 12, 2015

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