Ferdinand and his wife were shot while driving in a motorcade through Sarajevo, during an official visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Credit: Courtesy The National World War I Museum. Franz Ferdinand. One hundred years ago, on June 28, 1914, the ...

Shia LaBeouf has been released after authorities say he was taken out of a New York City theater for being disorderly and yelling obscenities. The actor, wearing a ripped blue T-shirt, skinny jeans and boots, walked several blocks to a hotel, surrounded by ...

BAGHDAD - The civil war is between the two main branches of Islam -- the Sunni and the Shiite. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government is predominantly Shiite. The attacking force, ISIS, is Sunni. ISIS now holds parts of northern Syria and western Iraq.

President Obama has gotten heat from U.S. lawmakers for engaging Iran in talks to curb its nuclear program, but those conversations may have laid the groundwork for cooperation between two longtime nemeses on dealing with the violence in Iraq.

The end of the Iraq war in 2011 was a high point of President Obama's first term, marking the completion of one of his most important campaign promises. But as Islamic militants capture cities and towns throughout Iraq and march toward the capital, Baghdad, ...

Amazon (AMZN) has launched a new feature called Prime Music: unlimited on-demand music streaming that is free without ads for customers with an Amazon Prime membership. The company boasts more than a million songs, hundreds of pre-programmed ...

Eugene Goostman appears to have just made artificial intelligence history. He is not a programmer, or even a real person -- Eugene Goostman is the name of a computer program designed to simulate the intelligence of a 13-year-old boy. "Eugene" did ...

A quarter of a century ago, the world watched as Chinese military tanks rolled on Tiananmen Square and began firing on student protestors, killing hundreds-- possibly thousands -- as they called for freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and an end to ...

Lindsay Lohan's mother has avoided jail time over speeding and drunk driving charges. A Nassau County District judge in Hempstead, N.Y., ordered Dina Lohan on Tuesday to pay more than $3,000 in fines and fees. She will also perform 100 hours of ...

DONETSK, Ukraine - The Ukrainian military is battling pro-Russian militias for control in the east. On Thursday in Slavyansk, insurgents shot down a Ukrainian helicopter, killing at least 12 soldiers and a top general. CBS News has been learning more about ...

CANBERRA, Australia -- An Australian agency says investigators have concluded that the missing Malaysian jet is not within an area thought to be its most likely resting place after an unmanned submersible found no sign of the plane. The Joint Agency ...

CANBERRA, Australia -- An Australian agency says investigators have concluded that the missing Malaysian jet is not within an area thought to be its most likely resting place after an unmanned submersible found no sign of the plane. The Joint Agency ...

Adding yet another button to its arsenal of clickable icons -- which ironically, still doesn't include a "Dislike" button -- Facebook has quietly begun to roll out a new "Ask" button. Reportedly still in beta testing, according to Gizmodo, it appears to be widely ...

Adding yet another button to its arsenal of clickable icons -- which ironically, still doesn't include a "Dislike" button -- Facebook has quietly begun to roll out a new "Ask" button. Reportedly still in beta testing, according to Gizmodo, it appears to be widely ...

A negotiator with the Nigerian government told CBS News that two battalions of troops are searching an area where Boko Haram is known to operate in the search for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. American drones are now part of the search.

SYDNEY -- The Australian agency heading up the search for the missing Malaysian jet has dismissed a claim by a resource survey company that it found possible plane wreckage in the northern Bay of Bengal. The location cited by Australia-based ...

SYDNEY -- The Australian agency heading up the search for the missing Malaysian jet has dismissed a claim by a resource survey company that it found possible plane wreckage in the northern Bay of Bengal. The location cited by Australia-based ...

This week on Face the Nation, we'll keep you up to speed with the latest on the standoff between Ukraine and Russia, as Russian troops gather along the border. For analysis of the growing tension, we'll hear from Sen. Bob Corker, R-TN, a ranking member ...

Lytro unveiled a new camera Tuesday that's like a digital SLR that lets users refocus the frame -- after a photo is taken. The Illum light-field camera captures more data than a regular camera, making it possible to refocus a photo. Users can interact with the ...

Editor's Note: Since this story was published, an Australian ship heard a third "pulse" signal, and several more ships are rushing to the area to improve the search. Read our ongoing coverage of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 search here. PERTH, Australia ...