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 From legendary Egyptian actor Omar Sharif to Germany's ex-chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Nobel-winning author Gunter Grass, here are some of…

The Boko Haram insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school, the UN children's agency reported on…

Stretched thin and under pressure by increasing air strikes, the Islamic State group has been forced into a defensive position…

China has appointed its first counter-terrorism chief, state media said Monday, as it wages a controversial campaign to stamp out…

Pope Francis said Monday that reform of the Curia, the Church's governing body, would "move forward with determination, clarity and…

Brazil's mining giant Vale will appeal the hold a judge put on its assets and those of BHP Billiton to…

Saudi Arabia intercepted a missile fired before dawn Monday from Yemen towards its southern border region, the coalition said, in…

Schools, iPhones, connected devices and Wi-Fi networks are all potential targets for cybercriminal attacks in 2016, according to WatchGuard Technologies,…

Not many days from now, the planet will bid farewell to 2015 and welcome 2016 with open arms. We are taking…

The general public knows little if anything about these five actors who could make their name in Hollywood in 2016. Taron…