International

(CNN) -- Four people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the Irbil provincial governor's office, Iraq's state-run Iraqiya TV reported Wednesday. Several other people were wounded in the blast in Irbil city, Iraqiya said. It was not…

(CNN) -- A United Nations General Assembly committee Tuesday voted in favor of a draft resolution referring North Korea to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity as well as "targeted sanctions" for rampant human rights…

ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian health officials say a woman who was diagnosed with bird flu has died, the second fatality from the H5N1 virus this year in the country. Egypt has reported seven bird flu cases so far in 2014. Most victims…

(CNN) -- A doctor who spent time treating Ebola patients in West Africa died from the virus Monday in Nebraska. The death of Dr. Martin Salia, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, marks the second time Ebola has claimed a victim in the…

NEW YORK (AP) -- A man standing with his wife on a Bronx subway platform was pushed onto the tracks Sunday morning by another man and was struck and killed by an oncoming train, police said. The assailant fled. Police said an unidentified…

Rome (CNN) -- Pope Francis is to make his first trip to the United States as the head of the Catholic Church in September 2015, the Vatican said Monday. He will travel to the World Meeting of the Families, said Vatican spokesman Padre…

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - A man convicted of fatally shooting his sleeping wife, then raping and murdering her 10-year-old daughter, was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison after spending almost half…

(CNN) -- A Sikh student at Hofstra University filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the United States Army, claiming the service refused to grant him a religious accommodation that would allow him to enlist in his school's ROTC program without…

WASHINGTON, (CMC) – The Director of the Department of Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Dr Marcos Espinal, says preventing local transmission of Ebola is the main goal in preparing for…

Naypyidaw, Myanmar (CNN) -- What a difference two years makes. When Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Myanmar in 2012, there was much fanfare about the country's political reforms and apparent road to democracy…

TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) -- Residents in a central Florida community watched anxiously on Tuesday after two holes opened in the ground, including one that swallowed a car, forcing six families to evacuate their homes. The first of the two…

London (CNN) -- The Rosetta mission to land a probe on Comet 67P is past the point of no return, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday. "There is no going back now," the agency said after the spacecraft's lander was…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Police hunted Monday for the driver of a car that ploughed at high speed into a group of churchgoers as they stood on a sidewalk after a service. At least 15 people were injured — including seven children. Police said late…

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least 57 people were killed and 20 others injured Tuesday when a bus collided with a truck in southeastern Pakistan, authorities said. The bus was carrying passengers from Swat district in the Khyber…

POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide bomber disguised in school uniform detonated explosives at a high school assembly in the northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday killing at least 48 students, according to survivors and a morgue…