BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s army has started training 32 Kurdish peshmerga fighters at an army school in Bavaria to support them in their fight against Islamic State extremists. A spokesman for the German defense ministry said Sunday that the 32
NEW YORK (AP) — Flexing his star power, Denzel Washington led the thriller “The Equalizer” to a $35 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Sony-Columbia Pictures release dominated the weekend box office, surpassing some expectations for the film.
MIAMI (AP) — A shooting sent terrified patrons scrambling from a Miami nightclub early Sunday and left 15 people wounded, including an 11-year-old child, authorities said. When Miami police and rescue crews arrived at a club called The Spot around
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama acknowledged that U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants and overestimated the ability and will of Iraq’s army to fight. Questioning Obama’s strategy to destroy the group, House Speaker John Boehner
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police used tear gas Sunday and warned of further measures as they tried to clear thousands of pro-democracy protesters gathered at government headquarters in a challenge to Beijing over its decision to restrict democratic
This article originally appeared in the Daily Mail: The British Muslim convert known as the ‘White Widow’ has joined ISIS and is training a female suicide bomber squad in Syria, it has been reported. Samantha Lewthwaite, 30, from Aylesbury in
(Reuters) – A Twitter account run by an Qaeda member said the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan group was killed in a U.S. air strike in Syria, SITE monitoring service said on Sunday, following several days of uncertainty over whether
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most of the nearly 60,000 Central American children who have arrived on the U.S.-Mexico border in the last year still don’t have lawyers to represent them in immigration court, and advocates are scrambling to train volunteer
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities said a police officer was shot Saturday night in Ferguson, Missouri, the scene of racial unrest in the wake of the August shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer. Tim
TOKYO (AP) — Rescue workers have found 30 or more people unconscious and believed to be dead near the peak of an erupting volcano in central Japan, local government and police said. Nagano prefecture posted on its website that about
Social and economic development has long been touted as the way to revive the fortunes of Nigeria’s impoverished north and prevent legions of disaffected young men turning to radical Islam. But Boko Haram violence has scuppered progress, particularly from one
North Korean athletes at the Asian Games miss ailing supreme leader Kim Jong-Un so much that they held a special meeting to sing their loyalty, state media said Sunday. One gold medal weightlifter read a poem he had written for
Just three years after France’s upper house Senate made history with its first ever swing to the left, the right is expected to claw back a majority Sunday in a new setback for Socialist President Francois Hollande. The far-right National
The men and women picked to run the EU for the next five years face a grilling by the European Parliament this week which could claim the scalp of at least one of them. France’s Pierre Moscovici, the incoming economic
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — This is was the best type of learning experience for Everett Golson and Notre Dame. Golson offset a four-turnover performance with some pinpoint passing, setting a school record for consecutive completions and throwing a career-high
This article originally appeared at The Daily Mail.The female air force pilot whose missions against Isis were dubbed ‘boobs on the ground’ has reportedly been disowned by her family and labelled an ‘ingrate’. Mariam Al Mansouri’s participation in F-16 bombing
GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AP) — Justin Rose swept that magical putter into the air before his ball even reached the hole, and he punched his right fist when it dropped for a birdie. Just like at Medinah, the final match in
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man who was shot after he beheaded one woman and attacked another at an Oklahoma food processing plant from which he had just been fired has regained consciousness and has been interviewed by detectives, police
(AFP) — Yemen’s Al-Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility for a rocket that hit near the US embassy in Sanaa Saturday, shortly after the mission said it was unlikely the target. The attack came “in revenge for Muslim children targeted by
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s president on Friday urged faster progress at nuclear talks between his country and six world powers, joining other top international officials who say the current round has failed to make substantial headway toward sealing a
CHICAGO (AP) — As the Kansas City Royals celebrated in the clubhouse, George Brett watched from a distance. The Hall of Famer stood near the entrance, doing his best not to get soaked. “This stuff burns your eyes really bad,”
More than 100 protesters broke through the gates of Hong Kong’s government headquarters as a student demonstration against Beijing’s refusal to grant the city unfettered democracy turned angry. Six people were arrested for offences ranging from forcibly entering government property
LONDON (AP) — Britain, Belgium and Denmark on Friday joined the U.S.-led coalition of nations that are launching airstrikes on the Islamic State group in Iraq, committing warplanes to the struggle against the extremists. The European lawmakers flatly described the
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The president of Spain’s powerful northeastern region of Catalonia on Saturday formally called an independence referendum, the latest secession push in Europe and one of the most serious challenges to the Spanish state in recent years.
(Reuters) Almost 3,000 West Africans have died from the current outbreak of Ebola virus, and on Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that by January between 550,000 and 1.4 million people could be infected if nothing is done. But
