Paris attacks probe: 10th suspect arrested in Belgium
In a statement, the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office said that "about 10 cellphones" were seized and are being examined.
Two sentenced to death for killing blogger in Bangladesh
Rahmani was given five years of jail and Taka 2,000 in fine with two months of additional imprisonment in default.
Friend of California shooter indicted on gun, terror charges
The counts include conspiring with shooter Syed Farook to carry out attacks in 2011 and 2012.
'Bizarre' weather pushes temperature in North Pole above freezing point
US scientists from the North Pole Environmental Observatory said that the temperatures had climbed suddenly.
The aerial video shot from a helicopter shows Iraqi army firing missiles and heavy artillery on IS positions in Hawija city.
The case marks the first time Cosby has been charged with sexual misconduct despite years of lurid allegations and sets the stage for perhaps the biggest Hollywood celebrity trial of the mobile-news era.
The ceasefire idea would exclude militant groups such as Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.
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Much of the centre of the Anbar provincial capital still needs to be cleared of explosives laid by the jihadist insurgents who had seized the city in May, the coalition said.
The flight was carrying 332 passengers and 19 crew members
In a statement to The Associated Press, Facebook said it hoped to "resolve this situation soon" so the program, which it had launched with Etisalat Egypt some two months ago, could be restored.
Top American commander in Afghanistan Gen John Campbell had said that at the time of the raid the camp was used by the new Qaeda offshoot Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
Over time, the disputed land was rumored to be increasingly lawless, a haven for drug dealers and illicit sexual escapades.
Kim Yang Gon served three generations of the Kim dynasty which has ruled the North for more than six decades with an iron fist and no tolerance for dissent.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said Wednesday that Baghdad will continue to pursue peaceful means, but that if there is no other solution and if "fighting is imposed on us, we will consider it to protect our sovereignty."
Donald Trump said he will start spending millions of dollars in hard-hitting campaign advertising in the run-up to the first votes in the 2016 presidential race
Missouri has been pounded by downpours since Saturday, and forecasters warned that its major rivers were still days away from cresting at record levels.
George Pataki, a moderate Republican, was running a long shot campaign from the start, and his candidacy failed to take off in a crowded Republican field.
The administration of President Barack Obama is weighing whether to designate Islamic State violence a genocide and which religious minorities would be covered by such a designation
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but previous such attacks have been blamed on the Pakistani Taliban.
The U.S. Geological Survey says in a preliminary report that the magnitude-4.4 quake hit in foothills northwest of San Bernardino
The phone line was formally inaugurated by the chiefs of cross-Strait affairs from both sides as both the countries initiated several measures in recent years including meeting between top leaders.
The New York-based organization says Syria again was the deadliest place for journalists, though the number of deaths there in 2015 _ 13 _ was lower than in previous years of the conflict.
The two suspects were arrested following searches Sunday and Monday in the Brussels area, the Liege region and Flemish Brabant.
The Islamic State fatwa sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the sexual slavery of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.
In the video, Iraqi forces are shown moving into Ramadi with all guns blazing.
Activists and many of the elderly victims were furious on Tuesday.
State news agency SANA said the army inflicted heavy losses on the militants, but did not give a death toll, while the Observatory said 40 were killed from both sides.
More than 40 people were killed by tornadoes and floods in the United States during the holiday season, where rare winter tornado warnings were issued in Alabama on Monday.
California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer Andrew Barclay says callers first reported the 500-pound (225-kilogram) mammal was trying to climb the divider wall of Highway 37 near Sears Point in Sonoma
The capture of Ramadi, capital of mainly Sunni-Muslim Anbar province in the Euphrates River valley west of the capital, deprives Islamic State militants of their biggest prize of 2015.
About 60 people had wounds from bullets and shrapnel from explosive devices, she said. Other wounded people had to be sent to other hospitals in the city.
Iraq had yesterday declared that it had liberated Ramadi and was conducting combing operations in the area to check for bombs or booby traps left behind by ISIS fighters.
"I heard this 'boom, boom, boom' sound and then the truck started violently shaking," he said. "Then the truck was lifted off the ground and I remember thinking 'I'm dead'."
The deal could reverse decades of animosity and mistrust between the thriving democracies, trade partners and staunch US allies.
