Avijit Roy was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants on Thursday, sparking widespread condemnation from home and abroad.
Egypt has been without a parliament since June 2012 when a court dissolved the democratically elected main chamber.
A U.N. official released figures showing the grim price Iraqis are paying for the activities of terrorists such as the Islamic State group.
The bacteria are so small that 150,000 can fit into the tip of a human hair. They are believed to be quite common, and were found in water samples.
The political drama over Homeland Security funding may portend more serious trouble ahead as Washington confronts fiscal challenges on a grander scale.
Following disagreements between Obama and Netanyahu, there are growing signs the tensions could damage the broader U.S.-Israeli alliance.
Authorities in Bremen say they have been receiving tips about a potential Islamist attack since Feb. 27.
Victor Arden Barnard was on the U.S. Marshals Service's list of most-wanted fugitives: He faces 59 sexual-abuse charges.
Legislation to give Congress a 60-day review option has been introduced in the Senate.
Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase are caught on the video, standing at a bus station in Istanbul.
Drivers transporting workers to Apple, eBay, Yahoo, Zynga and Genentech voted to join the Teamsters union to lobby for better pay and working conditions.
A Massachusetts high school student allegedly texted a friend in the moments leading up to his death encouraging him to carry out his suicide plan.
A straw poll win at the Conservative Political Action Conference is no guarantee a candidate will be able to capture the GOP nomination.
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Marco Rubio will have to cancel their Caracas travel plans.
U.S. immigration officials are seeking to deport hundreds of Bosnians living in the United States who allegedly committed war crimes and "ethnic cleansing" in former Yugoslavia.
Activists voiced their anger over a planned Olympic golf course in Rio, which has spurred the so-called Occupy Golf movement.
Vladimir Putin's opponents, shocked by the murder of Boris Nemtsov, prepare for a major rally Sunday in Moscow.
The event will replace a planned protest march Nemtsov had supported before he was shot and killed Friday.
Some 5,000 people marched in Cameroon protesting against the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. Fighting between the terrorists and coalition forces has intensified.
Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, a former leader of an Iraqi militant group, says the Charlie Hebdo gunmen "defended their dignity."
Jessica Hernandez, who was shot multiple times by two officers while behind the wheel of a stolen car, was hit by bullets from the left, an autopsy shows, contradicting earlier findings.
The Islamic State group is still actively recruiting foreign fighters using social-media platforms such as Facebook and Pinterest.
Authorities say there is new information on Joseph Aldridge, who killed seven friends and neighbors late Thursday
Thousands laid flowers and lit candles on the bridge where opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot and killed.
Palestinian group Hamas was labeled a terrorist organization and gyptian Muslim Brotherhood's top leader Mohamed Badie was sentenced to life in prison in one day.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in televised remarks Saturday Boris Nemtsov told him he had proof of Russia's role in the Ukraine conflict and would reveal it.
The pope took on problems in globalization and the "dizzying rise in unemployment" in a speech to the association of Italian cooperative movements.
The marijuana bust is the largest in the history of the Otay Mesa port of entry and the second-largest ever at any U.S. border crossing.
"The O’Reilly Factor" this week delivered its best ratings of 2015, even as criticism of its host mounted.
The senior U.S. senator in Arizona has long been a critic of the Russian president, having previously accused him of "literally getting away with murder."