The Russian government said today it is "outraged" by a shootout overnight near Slovyansk that left at least three dead, saying the attack was carried out by a Ukrainian right-wing nationalist group.

(CNN) -- Malaysia Airlines Flight 192, which was headed to Bangalore, India, has turned around and is returning to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the airline said Sunday on Twitter.

Afghan presidential candidate Abudullah Abdullah, center, is escorted by his security on the last day of campaigning by presidential candidates as he arrives at an election rally in the outskirts of Kabul, on April 2, 2014.

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 photo, a Palestinian boy walks around his home in the village of Beit Ummar near the West Bank city of Hebron.

(CNN) -- Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the middleweight boxing contender who spent 19 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of a triple murder, has died in Toronto, according to Win Wahrer, the director of client services for the Association in Defence of ...

SANAA, Yemen - A high-level government security committee in Yemen says an airstrike against training camps operated by suspected al-Qaida militants in a rugged southern mountain region has killed a number of fighters.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had to step in to protect an endangered Australian animal - from baby Prince George. The Cambridges took their eight-month-old son to Sydney's Taronga zoo to meet a bilby - a rabbit-like marsupial - named after the ...

At least 42 people were killed and several others injured on Sunday in a bus-trailer collision on the National Highway in Sindh's Sukkur district.

Pope Francis rode out on the popemobile Sunday to greet more than 150,000 tourists in St. Peter's Square for Easter Sunday, Christianity's most joyous and hopeful day.

ISLAMABAD —. A policeman shows the media a bullet hole in the door of a car which belongs to journalist Hamid Mir, at a local hospital in Karachi, Apr. 19, 2014.

President Bashar al-Assad made an Easter visit to a historic Christian town recaptured by the army, in a rare appearance outside the capital that shows his growing confidence in state control around Damascus.

Cairo: An Egyptian court sentenced on Sunday 30 people to more than three years in prison for violent protests in support of deposed Islamist president Mohammad Mursi, judicial officials said.

Twelve people were killed and 39 others wounded in separate attacks across Iraq Sunday, police said. Five people were killed and 15 injured when two suicide bombers wearing explosive vests tried to break into the Shiite college of Imam Kadhim in Ur ...

Four French journalists kidnapped in Syria last June by the radical Muslim rebel group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have been found blindfolded and tied up on the Turkish border.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two anonymous Twitter accounts used to release secretly recorded conversations implicating family and associates of Turkey's prime minister and senior government officials in a corruption scandal appeared on Sunday to have been ...

The “comfort women” scandal? The Nanking massacre? Official homage to war criminals at the Yasukuni shrine? No, no, and no. If by a guilty secret we mean something that Japan really, really wants to sweep under the rug, none of the above comes even ...

Iran says the next round of international expert-level talks on the Iranian nuclear program will be held next month in New York City.

David Bailey is a magician. Not in the clichéd complimentary sense of doing clever things with lighting, or flattering the people he photographs.