BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Kurdish forces took control of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday after driving out Islamic State fighters, a monitoring group and Syrian state media said, although Washington said the four-month battle was not yet over.

KRAKOW, Poland (AP) - Film director Steven Spielberg says Jews are again facing the "perennial demons of intolerance" from anti-Semites who want to strip them of their identity.

KIEV/ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Russian-backed rebels advanced to encircle a Ukrainian army garrison town on Monday in a new offensive that has again unleashed all-out war after a five-month ceasefire and brought threats of new Western sanctions ...

A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed into other aircraft on the ground during NATO training in southeastern Spain Monday, killing at least 10 people, Spain's Defense Ministry said.

WASHINGTON - A C.I.A. drone strike on Monday on a car in eastern Yemen, the first since the resignation of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, killed three suspected Qaeda fighters, American officials said, in a signal that the United States will continue ...

LONDON - Centuries of tradition were overturned in the Church of England on Monday when it consecrated the first woman to serve as one of its bishops at a service in York Minister.

Saudi Arabia on Monday postponed its biggest national cultural festival, an event developed by the late King Abdullah, after his death last week.

THE BEIJING PROBLEM: India's Republic Day celebrations offered a chance for President Obama and Prime Minister Modi to elevate U.S.

A woman is seen through a window as she stands outside in the Brooklyn borough of New York City as a winter storm begins in New York January 26, 2015.

Iran will get its first index exchange-traded fund tomorrow with the instrument's creator betting on growing foreign demand for the nation's stocks as it nears a deal to end sanctions over its nuclear program.

BEIRUT - The spokesman for the Islamic State has urged Muslims living in Western countries to carry out attacks, saying any loyalist who has the opportunity to "shed a drop of blood" should do so.

Italian prosecutors called on Monday for judges to show "no pity" to Francesco Schettino, the captain of the doomed Costa Concordia, demanding he serve 26 years and three months in jail for a shipwreck which killed 32 people.

TONY Abbott's cabinet colleagues are staggered at the political damage and distraction of his appointing Prince Philip as a knight of Australia just as he is seeking calm within the Coalition.