Muslim rebels stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, launching grenades and spraying civilians with gunfire, witnesses said. At least five bodies were brought to area hospitals, though some witnesses ...

By sheer numbers, the USA handily leads the world in obesity, with 87 million of the world's 671 million obese people — 13% of the total for a country with 5% of the population, a new report says. But we are hardly alone in our battle with bulges: Obesity is a ...

By sheer numbers, the USA handily leads the world in obesity, with 87 million of the world's 671 million obese people — 13% of the total for a country with 5% of the population, a new report says. But we are hardly alone in our battle with bulges: Obesity is a ...

Michael Ibsen, a 17th generation nephew of King Richard III, poses with a facial reconstruction of the king last year. New testing will reveal the king's eye and hair colour. Photo: Reuters. The judgment of Lady Justice Hallett and Mr Justices Ouseley and ...

A group of OSCE observers based in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk were out of contact for several hours after being detained. A separate group of observers missing since Monday remains unaccounted for. 0:00:00|0:00:00 ...

MOSCOW — The American confrontation with Russia over Ukraine has caused relations between Moscow and Washington to plummet to the lowest level in a generation. American school children singing the Star Spangled Banner in the ballroom of Spaso ...

Shock: Mohammad Iqbal sits next to his wife Farzana's body. He told reporters that they had been in love but her family did not agree with their marriage. Plot: He alleged that the woman's family wanted to fleece money from him before marrying her off. One of ...

Edward Snowden, the former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of massive U.S. intelligence-gathering programs, admitted he “was trained as a spy” and had worked undercover overseas for U.S. government agencies. Last night on NBC Nightly ...

Tall and regal, with a deep, majestic voice, Maya Angelou defied all probability and category, enjoying mainstream success as an author and thriving in virtually every artistic medium. Angelou, a modern Renaissance woman, survived the harshest of ...

No driver, no brakes, no problem? Not so fast. Google's fully autonomous self-driving car could be sharing the road with human drivers in California within the next couple of years, according to a post on the company's blog. However, California's Department ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The disappointment of not playing in the Olympic soccer tournament two years ago stuck with Mix Diskerud. PENZANCE, ENGLAND - MAY 26: Terry English dressed as a pirate walks in the ...

OXON HILL Md. (Reuters) - Twelve-year-old Nathan Manaker had not been hopeful about his chances when the Scripps National Spelling Bee got under way on Wednesday, and he turned out to be right. Manaker, a seventh-grader from Orono, Maine, was ...

Nearly 20 members of a Pakistan family attacked and killed Farzana Parveen, 25, in front of a court Tuesday. The family, who disapproved of the woman's marriage because it wasn't arranged, had filed an abduction case against her husband, and the couple ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A representative for One Direction says the band's lawyers are dealing with a video showing two band members smoking what the singers referred to as an "illegal substance." British tabloid The Daily Mail posted a five-minute clip ...

Maya Angelou was an American author and poet, who passed away on May 28, 2014. She died at the age of 86 in North Carolina. Just last year, she was honored at the National Book Awards ceremony for her service to the literary community. A highly ...

For Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise, seeking out new life and new civilisations wouldn't have been much use without a universal translator to deal with new languages too. Fortunately for the denizens of the 23rd century, Microsoft has ...

Until now, self-driving cars have just been regular cars with an autopilot mode. They have steering wheels, gas pedals, brakes, and human drivers ready to take over at a moment's notice. Will Oremus. Will Oremus is Slate's senior technology writer. Email him ...

Washington: President Barack Obama announced plans on Tuesday for keeping nearly 10,000 US troops in Afghanistan after this year but then withdrawing virtually all by the close of 2016 and the conclusion of his presidency, charting an end to America's ...

Lokesh Nagineni, 13, from Denton County, spelled out a word in his hand during the 56th Annual The Dallas Morning News Regional Spelling Bee on March 22, 2014. He won the spelling bee with the word "mastoiditis." (Ron Baselice/Staff Photographer).

Maya Angelou spent her life as an unstoppable force for art, justice, and love. Her writing touched on themes of struggle and sadness, and often drew on her faith as a source of strength to find beauty and perseverance in hard times. As we remember the ...