Reuters

A Georgia man pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to attempting to support ISIS which he had planned to join before his 2014 arrest, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Russia's army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week, according to an exclusive report.

Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party is divided over the plan.

Libya's internationally recognized prime minister, Abdullah al-Thinni, said Tuesday he had survived an assassination attempt after leaving a session of the anarchic country's elected parliament.

Three companies plan to remove ads from TLC's "19 Kids and Counting," in a sign of waning support for the top-rated program about a large Christian family following reports that the eldest son had molested underage girls.

The IMF also said China still faced risks from unsustainable credit and investment growth.

Last year, the Philippines accused China of reclaiming land on Johnson South Reef, apparently to build an airstrip.

Management said most of the growth was down to its Always Getting Better program.

The trade-reliant economy expanded an annualized and seasonally adjusted 3.2 percent in the January-March quarter.

President Barack Obama heralded the first U.S. Memorial Day in 14 years without a major ground war in an annual ceremony of remembrance on Monday for fallen American forces.

The Baltimore Orioles pitcher has been suspended for eight games, but will appeal.

Taiwan has so far played a marginal role in tackling the series of disputes between China and its neighbors in the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year.

The ruling AKP party is polling at 41 percent with the opposition at 26 percent. AKP had previously trended around 45-47 percent in surveys.

The exercise, based in the north of Norway, Sweden and Finland with 4,000 personnel, is meant to test cooperation among Arctic nations near Russia.

Philippine Defense Minister Voltaire Gazmin said he would meet U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Wednesday in Hawaii to ask for a stronger commitment.

European shares were down on Monday while the dollar held firm after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's comments.

India's firms have seen debt levels nearly triple in the past five years.

Activity was likely to be thin this session, as UK and U.S. markets are shut on Monday.

Cabinet ministers receive 134,565 British pound ($208,000) a year, including their parliamentary salary.

Mohamed El Harari, a spokesman for Tripoli-based state oil firm NOC, said the Libyan tanker Anwar Afriqya had been carrying fuel for Sirte's power plant.

There were wins and losses for government forces in Syria and Iraq against the Islamic State group.

Italy closed down a specialized naval mission to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean last year, but continues to bear the brunt of the rescues.

Mathematician John Nash and his wife were in a taxi cab whose driver lost control and crashed into a guard rail, ABC News reported, citing state police.

Greece will be high on the agenda as finance ministers from the world's largest developed economies meet in Germany this week.

"Under current conditions, it seems unlikely that the OPEC production ceiling will change," Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh says.

Activists say on social-media sites that hundreds of bodies were seen in the streets of the Syrian city of Palmyra.

The U.S. is optimistic a deal to set up a free trade zone across the Pacific will be concluded soon, with sensitive issues likely to be ironed out when its Congress resumes sessions.

Britain's opposition Labour Party will back Prime Minister David Cameron's plans to hold a referendum on the country's European Union membership.

Ukraine steelmaker Metinvest said on Sunday it has halted production at its Avdiyivka facility in eastern Ukraine, one of Europe's biggest coke plants, after shelling caused major damage.