North Korea's claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb is continuing to draw global condemnation, with neighboring South Korea calling for tighter sanctions against the communist regime.
Stock markets around the world got another jolt Thursday after China halted trading following another big plunge.
ISIS is employing scientists and weapons experts to train jihadis to carry out sophisticated attacks in Europe.
Officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man at a police station in Paris, Thursday, a year to the day after an attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Sara Fernanda Geiromin, a former feminist pro-choice leader, has had a change of heart and is apologizing for her actions.
North Korea trumpeted its first hydrogen bomb test - a powerful, self-proclaimed "H-bomb of justice" that would mark a major and unanticipated advance for its still-limited nuclear arsenal.
While ISIS's self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria has been the main focus of the West's military operations, the Islamic State's Libyan branch is making major noise right at Europe's doorstep.
Cologne, Germany, is holding a crisis meeting after dozens of sexual assaults were committed there on New Year's Eve.
Assyrian Christians in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah mourned the victims of ISIS-led terror attacks in Qamishli city by canceling celebrations on New Year's Eve.
Despite American's often repeated outcry over the separation of church and state, Britain is officially a Christian nation.