South Korea has spent decades screening refugees from a hostile neighbor, underlining the challenges other countries face in dealing with a far larger influx of Syrian refugees.
In the wake of Friday's shooting at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, Colorado, security has been increased at clinics around the country.
Chicago's main police union is standing behind a white police officer who was charged this week with first degree murder for fatally shooting a 17-year-old black teenager.
A prominent Kurdish lawyer and rights activist was shot in the head and killed on Saturday amid a period of unrest in Turkey's Kurdish southeast.
Carson toured a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan Saturday.
U.S. President Barack Obama took his daughters shopping for books and sweet treats on Small Business Saturday.
“Worldwide, the Muslims were absolutely going wild,” the U.S. presidential candidate says at a campaign rally in Sarasota, Florida.
Among the questions an appeals court will examine Dec. 4 is whether the Federal Communications Commission has the authority to regulate the Internet.
The Anonymous collective of activist hackers has claimed responsibility for bringing down five government websites in Iceland in its anti-whaling protest.
The suspect, Robert Dear, said "no more baby parts" to officials as police sought a motive in the attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado that killed three people.
An increase in carbon dioxide levels, one of the major sources of global warming, is rapidly altering the environment in unexpected ways, scientists say.
One security source said the two attackers were riding a motor bike when they opened fire using machine guns at a police checkpoint in Saqqara, 22 miles south of Cairo.
The Islamic Republic's new model is designed to make the country's oil and gas industry attractive again to investment by international energy companies.
The decree, posted on the Kremlin's web site, said a ban on charter flights from Russia to Turkey would be introduced, that Russian tour operators should stop selling trips to Turkey, and that imports of some Turkish products would be halted.
Anonymous declared war on the Islamic State group after the deadly Nov. 13 Paris attacks, but are the group's strategies and tactics having a measurable impact?
The shrine is the site where more than 20 Christians were burned alive.
The country says the fence is designed to direct refugees to controlled points for registration, but Balkan nations reportedly have been turning away refugees for weeks.
The Planned Parenthood clinic terrorized by the gunman will reopen soon, says the organization's regional head.
The Syrian army captured territory from Islamic State group east of Aleppo including several kilometers (miles) of highway linking the city with the jihadists' de facto capital of Raqqa, Syrian state TV reported on Saturday.
North Korea appeared to conduct a submarine-launched ballistic missile test on Saturday but it ended in failure with no indication that the missile successfully ejected from the vessel and took off, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
Some assault rifles used by the Islamic militants in the Nov 13 Paris attacks and later seized in police raids were produced in the former Yugoslavia's state arsenal, the company's director said on Saturday.
The move comes despite the fact a 16-judge panel of the International Court of Justice ruled last March that the practice was not justified.
No group has claimed responsibility of the attack that occurred in the eastern part of the capital of Kabul on Saturday.
Gunmen attacked and fired rockets at a U.N. peacekeeping base in Kidal in northern Mali Saturday, killing two soldiers and a civilian, the UN force said.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino has approved the purchase of 44 billion pesos ($932.74 million) worth of military equipment to help boost maritime security capability as tensions simmer in the South China Sea, a senior defense official said on Saturday.
While the U.S. said Russia's beefed up air defenses could complicate the tense situation in Syria, Moscow said it will not impact the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man behind the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, boasted of easily entering Europe as a refugee and mocked the EU's open-border policy, according to a report.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is set to formally announce the fund Monday at the Paris Climate Change Summit, according to reports, citing sources.
The first identification of a suspect in the shooting between at least two groups of people came four days after New Orleans police said the shooting appeared to be gang-related.
The intruder, draped in an American flag, reportedly left behind a note indicating he expected to die because of his actions.