There are only 400 Sumatran tigers left in the world because most of their habitat has been eaten up by oil-palm plantations in just two years
Watchdog: Syria Has Destroyed Chemical Weapon Production Facilities
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons inspected a majority of sites
Love Gone Wrong: Five Weird Sex-Related Injuries
Because love is a battlefield
Netanyahu Okays Plan to Build Thousands More West Bank Homes
Move seen as bid to placate hard-liners in wake of Palestinian prisoner release
Three Dead, Many Wounded in Fresh Communal Violence in India
Clashes return to north Indian area that saw bloody sectarian rioting last month
NSA Denies Spying on Pope
An Italian magazine reports the embattled intelligence agency eavesdropped on the Vatican during the conclave that elevated Pope Francis to office
Spain Ends Two-Year Recession
The country with the highest unemployment rate in Europe has announced economic growth for the first time in 10 straight quarters
Iraq’s Prime Minister Visits U.S. as Sectarian Violence Rocks His Nation
In the late fall of 2006, 10 or so months into my first Iraq tour, I went on a series of patrols in the neighborhoods just east of Baghdad airport. Packed with squat tan houses and narrow trash-strewn streets, the area was a …
Hacking Trial Puts Key Murdoch Allies in the Spotlight
“The defendants are on trial but British justice is also on trial,” Mr Justice Saunders told the jury at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, more commonly known as the Old Bailey. “It is a central principle of our …
Wife Finds Brazilian Soccer Player’s Head in Sack
Headless former athlete may have been punished for anti-cartel ties
WATCH: Indian Communist Politician Sleeps on Bed of Cash
Karl Marx—who is said to have once declared, “I do not like money, money is the reason we fight”—must be spinning in his grave knowing that his supposed modern-day disciples disagree with him. Last week Indian television footage showed Samar Acharjee, an official of the CPI(M) party in the eastern Indian state of Tripura, the …
Assad: No Peace Until Foreigners Stop Arming Rebels
‘The Syrian people alone are entitled to draw the future of Syria’
Egyptian Authorities Arrest Last of Prominent Muslim Brotherhood Leaders
The arrest caps a four-month crackdown by the military-backed government