The Chinese party has begun a formal investigation into a former chief of internal security, Zhou Yongkang, after months of slowly tightening the noose through the investigation of his close associates.
In an enormous and important discovery, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered liquid geysers that expel water on one of Saturn's moons, Encedalus.
A teenage girl from Japan has been arrested after allegedly killing and dismembering one of her friends and posting about it on a popular message board.
The United States has accused Russia of testing a ground based cruise missile system in direct contravention to the Intermediate-nuclear Forces Treaty.
An international arbitration court in the Hague has ruled that Russia must pay $50 billion to investors for the seizure of the Yukos oil company.
A musician from Portland, Oregon has been sentenced to four years in prison after deceiving people into thinking he would host a benefit concert he had no intention of making a reality.
In the wake of two disasters that have garnered consistent and widespread attention from the international media, Malaysia Airlines is considering rebranding themselves.
A vicious mob in Pakistan murdered a woman and her two young daughters over "blasphemous" content that had been posted to Facebook by an Ahmadi youth.
A Georgia man was killed and his daughter severely injured when a plane crash-landed as they walked on a Florida beach as part of a family vacation near Venice, Florida.
Diplomatic pressure on Hamas and Israel to declare a ceasefire continues to grow despite the fact that neither party believes they have much to gain from such an agreement.
The Ukrainian military has launched an operation in an effort to secure the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down by pro-Russian rebels who mistook it for a Ukrainian military transport.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets on July 16 throughout the world to voice their disapproval of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.
A popular ESPN commentator has found himself at the center of a controversy surrounding domestic violence after remarks and Tweets where he suggested that some women "provoke" violence against them.
A new report alleges that the Central Intelligence Agency intercepted a whistleblower email addressed to a member of the U.S. Congress, raising serious questions about the integrity of the system in place for whistleblowers to safely reveal wrongdoing.
Both Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 12-hour ceasefire that will take effect at 7 a.m. local time, granting a brief reprieve to the millions both Palestine and Israel who have been under siege for nearly three weeks.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
