New violence in Nigeria is casting doubt on the government's claim the Boko Haram terrorist group is ready to release more than 200 schoolgirls.
Roman Catholic bishops have scrapped a controversial proposal to make their church more welcoming to homosexual people.
The intense battle for Kobani is more important for symbolic reasons than strategic. ISIS wants to win a propaganda victory in the midst of U.S.-led airstrikes.
Hurricane Gonzalo crushed trees, flattened power lines and damaged Bermuda's main hospital during an hours-long battering.
Families of two British aid workers killed by the Islamic State group in Syria urged people of all faiths to unite against the militants' "hateful acts."
The families of the more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian girls aren't dancing in the streets of their hometown yet after hearing of the ceasefire agreement between Nigeria and Boko Haram.
Author Stephen Mansfield has a message for the U.S.: "ISIS will fall. Kurdistan will rise... When all of this occurs, the U.S. will want to have backed its most ardent though abused friend in the region."
Unconfirmed reports say the men were beheaded - although it's possible they may have been crucified.
Police in Hong Kong cleared out a protest site in an early morning raid Wednesday.
A Pakistani court is upholding the death sentence for Asia Bibi, a Christian woman falsely accused of blaspheming the prophet Mohammed.