MIAMI, UNITED STATES- A small, dark-feathered bird known as the common swift flies for 10 months on end without ever landing, the longest time spent aloft of any known bird, scientists said Thursday....

Smoke rises from reported opposition fire from buildings in a government-held neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Oct. 20. (George Ourfalian/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) At last night’s...

NAIROBI, KENYA- Somalian security forces have arrested a British journalist working for Al-Jazeera, the Qatari news channel said Wednesday. Hamza Mohamed was arrested in Mogadishu on Tuesday along...

LONDON: Saudi Arabia is prepared to agree to a cease-fire in Yemen if the Iran-backed Houthis agree, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said on Monday, adding that he was cynical about efforts for...

CAIRO, EGYPT- Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza could contain two previously unknown "cavities", scientists using radiography to scan the millennia-old monument said on Saturday. On Thursday, the...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- It's now easy to chat on Facebook Messenger with the White House -- or more accurately through the presidential "bot" released by the Obama administration on Friday. The...

In Bosnia and in Syria, the tactic has been used to destroy bodies—but it’s really an attempt to annihilate the spirit.   Beginning in 1992, the siege of Sarajevo lasted a total of three...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, Giles Hewitt- Samsung told customers worldwide Tuesday to stop using their Galaxy Note 7 smartphones as it struggled to contain a snowballing safety crisis that threatens to...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI, Amelie Baron / with Marc Burleigh in Jeremie- Haiti faces a humanitarian crisis that requires a "massive response" from the international community, the United Nations chief...