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With more than 1 billion people in Africa and just 120 million monthly active users, Facebook has room to grow. But more than half of Africa’s population is currently offline.

It's as though “there are people telling you ‘you do not belong’ ” on campus, a recent black graduate of Louisiana State University said.

The country was dominated by protests days before Pope Francis was set to visit.

Leaders of anti-austerity parties in Spain, Italy and Ireland are adjusting their campaign platforms to react to Syriza's failures.

Now may be the prime time for state and federal officials to push for expanded health insurance for low-income Americans.

Renewing the bank should be a textbook example of bipartisan cooperation. But as of Wednesday morning, there is no more Ex-Im Bank.

Another critical deadline is looming, and migrants are facing a dilemma: Leave everything behind, or stay and risk deportation.

About 200 female garment workers were sent to the hospital following a mass fainting.

Chicago's mayor says merging state pension funds will solve his city's education funding crisis, but it also directs funds to campaign donors.

Beijing has promised to drastically reduce its level of carbon emissions within 20 years.

As a key, contentious trial on marijuana and PTSD prepares to launch, questions remain over whether cannabis helps or hurts struggling veterans.

As Syria's multi-sided civil war continues to devastate the nation's economy, more and more Syrian children are forced into the labor market.

Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon is hardly the first politician whose political and personal views were in conflict with those of other family members.

"No responsible journalist nor attorney disputes that...attorney-client privilege is a bedrock of America's civil society," Johnson's lawyer argued.

Residents of a southeast Nigerian city are protesting government plans to relocate up to 50 captured Boko Haram members.

The strategy showed a "confrontational attitude, devoid of any objectivity toward our country," a Kremlin spokesman said.

The amount is less than 1 percent of the fund's stated goal.

Police in Washington, D.C. were reacting Thursday to reports of an active shooter in the capital's Navy yard. Authorities are calling the incident a false alarm.

The sweeping social equality legislation did not include protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

The Russian president has been asked to make it easier for former Crimean Jews to be repatriated to the home they left under the Soviet Union.

An investigatory tribunal had previously issued "no determination" on whether Amnesty International was the target of illegal surveillance.

Singapore has already pledged $200,000 to the humanitarian fund, which will help the thousands of Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi migrants.

Beijing's hard-line response to pro-democracy groups seems to be working ... at least for now.

Russia claims that the new Bastion silo-based missile system in Crimea will be able to destroy any target in the Black Sea area.

Mainul Islam, chief coordinator for Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent in Bangladesh, is also among those arrested in Dhaka.

The boat was traveling from the central city of Ormoc to the island of Camotes.

Dong-Pyou Han spiked rabbit blood with human antibodies to show the experimental HIV vaccine results as major breakthrough.

At least a dozen people were killed by soldiers last year, in what is considered as one of the most scandalous cases of human rights violations in Mexico.

In a new report, Amnesty urged India to repeal a controversial law granting untrammeled power to the army in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.