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Two men pledging allegiance to ISIS took a priest hostage at a church in Normandy, France Tuesday morning.

Peruvian fishermen cut free a baby whale caught in one of their nets on July 25.

Geisel called his secret art work the "Midnight Paintings."

Kidnapping is weapon against its enemies, the leader of Al Qaeda said.

The South Korean government had earlier tried to persuade local residents to accept the deployment of the anti-missile system in the region, but failed amid health concerns.

A priest was killed after two armed men took several hostage at a church in northern France. The assailants were later shot dead.

The discovery at the ruin site of Palenque in Mexico suggests the tomb and pyramid were constructed on top of a spring to ensure a Mayan king could meet up with spirits who guided the dead to the underworld

The Last Universal Common Ancestor of all living things on Earth was a single-cell microbe that lived, and died, nearly four billion years ago, according to researchers.

The eighth book in the series is the script to a two-part play written by Jack Thorne based on a story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne.

Our galaxy and its smaller companions are surrounded by a much larger halo made of ionized plasma, or hot gas with temperatures of over 1 million degrees kelvin.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ordered an investigation Tuesday into the incident at a juvenile detention center in Darwin, the capital city of Northern Territory.

According to the Royal Society president, the country’s EU membership “is only one of many considerations” scientists and researchers take into account while coming to the U.K.

An attacker broke into a care center for people with mental disabilities early Tuesday and began stabbing people, injuring 25.

Prime Minister Abe told reporters after a panel meeting, however, that Japan will work toward achieving its 600 trillion yen ($5.7 trillion) GDP target through reforms in spending.

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said critics who claim the coup was a staged event aimed at rallying support for the government could face jail time.

Is Vladimir Putin hoping Donald Trump will win the election? Connections between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin have raised eyebrows.

While it may not seem like it, Monday's condemnation of police shooting African-Americans is far from the first time the hoops legend has waded into politics.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack in Ansbach, Germany.

The move, announced Monday, aims to eradicate all non-native predators from the country in order to protect indigenous wildlife.

The cross-party rally saw political parties set aside their differences to condemn the attempted coup that killed at least 246 people and injured more than 2,000.

Over the past few months, several studies — each attempting to calculate the rate at which the cosmos is expanding — have thrown up different values of the Hubble Constant.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is leading the search for the Malaysia Airlines jet, rejected recent reports on the accuracy of the search area and the pilot’s role in the crash.

Hong Kong, a former British colony, was handed back to China in 1997 under an agreement that gave ultimate control to Beijing but promised Hong Kong separate laws for at least 50 years.

The Cyberspace Administration of China accused several local news portals of violating the country’s internet regulations by carrying news that caused “huge negative effects.”

The advanced anti-missile system, which will be installed in the Korean Peninsula by the end of 2017, is expected to help South Korea counter the reclusive North’s threats.

Competing claims with China in the vital shipping lane are among the most contentious issues for the 10-nation bloc.

A fresh look at the Italian polymath’s notebooks shows he had attempted to formulate the laws governing friction — 200 years before they were actually codified.

One of the women was killed in the incident, which took place Saturday at the Beijing Badaling Wildlife World.

A 27-year-old Syrian man died on Sunday when a bomb he was carrying exploded outside a music festival in Ansbach.