President Barack Obama confirms plans to extend the US military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2016, in a shift in policy.

Chinese police arrests hackers after the US government supplied them with a list of cybercrime suspects.

Turkey is beginning three days of mourning after two blasts at a peace rally in the capital Ankara killed at least 95 people on Saturday, the deadliest ever such attack in Turkey.

Two people dies after two separate university shootings in Texas and Arizona, just hours apart.

Nato defence ministers will assess the "troubling escalation of Russian military activities" in Syria, the alliance's secretary-general says, ahead of talks in Brussels.

The gunman who killed nine people in a shooting rampage at a college in Oregon had 13 weapons, federal agents say.

US President Barack Obama says the Russian bombing campaign in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad is driving moderate opposition underground and "only strengthening" Islamic State.

Students at a US college in Oregon where 10 people were killed by a lone gunman on Thursday described scenes of panic and terror as they ran for their lives or hid in classrooms.

President Barack Obama angrily said on Thursday America had made a "political choice" to allow mass shootings like the one in Oregon to occur and blasted the National Rifle Association (NRA) lobby group for blocking reform of US gun laws.

US President Barack Obama has said defeating Islamic State in Syria would only be possible if President Bashar al-Assad stepped down.

Russia is considering whether to follow the US and its allies in conducting air strikes against Islamic State (IS) targets, President Vladimir Putin says.

Some of the biggest names in music and politics from Beyonce to European prime ministers rallied in a concert aimed at mobilizing action to eradicate extreme poverty.

Pope Francis tells the US Congress that the US must see migrants as "persons" and not as "numbers".

Pope Francis begins his tour of the US, where he is expected to greet millions of American Catholics and address thorny issues like climate change and income inequality.

When Presidents Xi Jinping and Barack Obama meet in the United States in a few days time, they will not be short of things to talk about.

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson said no Muslim should be president of the United States.

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would, its ex-secretary has said.

It took three interviews and five days for Hillary Rodham Clinton to say "I'm sorry", for using a personal email account run on a private server to conduct government business as secretary of state.

The rise of selfie photography in some of the world's most beautiful, and dangerous, places is sparking a range of interventions aimed at combating risk-taking that has resulted in a string of gruesome deaths worldwide.

Saudi Arabia says it is happy with President Obama's assurances that the recent nuclear deal with Iran will not imperil the Gulf states.