A small plane crashes into a house Sunday evening, killing three people on board, police said, but residents managed to flee as fire engulfed the home.

A global survey of 40 countries finds that large numbers of people have a favourable opinion of the United States, its economy and the US-led fight against the Islamic State.

A bizarre invasive worm with its mouth in the middle of its belly has been found in the United States for the first time, according to new research reports LiveScience.

Justin Bieber and Usher have been ordered by a US appeals court to face a $10 million lawsuit claiming the singers illegally copied parts of a song composed by two Virginia songwriters.

Bangladesh expresses concern over US trade bill on Trans Pacific Partnership, apprehending that it would lose its competitive edge in American market.

A young South African man who had the world's first successful penis transplant last December has impregnates his girlfriend.

Homer and Marge are to separate after more than 25 years together on hit comedy "The Simpsons," its executive producer revealed.

Parts of the White House and a Senate office building evacuated after telephone bomb threats.

United States urges Bangladesh and Myanmar to continue to facilitate unrestricted humanitarian access to migrants adrift.

An US state court orders the release of an inmate who has been in solitary confinement for more than 40 years.

Myanmar brought ashore more than 700 "boat people" as the United States on Wednesday called on the country to help solve a migrant crisis by recognizing the rights of its Muslim Rohingya minority.

Myanmar's government needs to treat minority Rohingya Muslims as citizens to solve the root cause of the migrant crisis in Southeast Asia, say the United States.

Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen moved to United States by the Center for Inquiry (CFI), New York-based advocacy group, which says that she received death threats, reports The Huffington Post.

The legal authority for US spy agencies' collection of Americans' phone records and other data expired at midnight on Sunday after the US Senate failed to pass legislation extending the powers.

Islamic State claims responsibility for a bombing that killed four people at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday.

The United States urge Malaysian authorities to carry out a full investigation into the grisly discovery of mass graves at human-trafficking camps and charge those behind the killings.

US hopes that information comes from the maritime surveillance flights will provide an enhanced understanding of the position of boatpeople at sea.

Fifa executives accepted bribes to help secure the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has said.

Australia plans to pass a law within weeks to give the government power to strip citizenship from dual nationals who are suspected terrorists even if they are not convicted of a crime, the prime minister says.

Malaysian authorities find 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs.