LOS ANGELES, US, Veronique Dupont- The accidental fatal shooting of a US woman by her own two-year-old son at a Walmart store has left her family devastated and again raised questions about gun...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Jihadists in Syria have threatened to execute Lebanese servicemen they hold captive unless Lebanon releases the ex-wife of the Islamic State group's leader and another...

LONDON, UK, Katherine Haddon- Classified documents made public Tuesday shed light on the political courtship between Britain's Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev -- whom she famously declared...

MADRID, SPAIN- Thousands of horn-tooting, hat-wearing revellers jammed Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square on Tuesday, braving freezing temperatures to ring in 2015 -- a day early. The crowd...

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Ali Khalil- Prosecutors in Sunni-ruled Bahrain charged Shiite opposition chief Sheikh Ali Salman on Monday with promoting regime change in the Gulf kingdom through hatred...

LONDON, UK- The Guardian newspaper on Monday selected AFP's Bulent Kilic as its best agency photographer of the year, picking out a selection of his pictures from the Syrian border, Ukraine and his...

LONDON, UK- Rallies were held in London and The Hague on Monday in support of three Al-Jazeera journalists as they marked a year in prison in Egypt. Australian journalist Peter Greste has been behind...

LOS ANGELES, US- Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" and Disney's animated fantasy hit "Frozen" were the two most pirated films of 2014, according to a firm tracking illegal downloads....

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Islamic State group jihadists have murdered nearly 2,000 people in Syria -- half of them from an important Sunni tribe -- since announcing their "caliphate" in June, a monitoring...