North Korea issued a furious statement Sunday slamming the United States for imposing sanctions against government officials and the defense industry for a cyberattack on Sony.
The 114th Congress that convenes Tuesday will count more minorities and women than ever, although lawmakers remain overwhelmingly white and male in the Republican-controlled House and Senate.
A South Korean medic exposed to Ebola while working in West Africa has been flown to Germany for treatment because the patient's anonymity would be better protected there, authorities in Berlin said Saturday.
The U.S.-led coalition is ramping up its offensive against ISIS in Syria.
Recovery efforts and the search for the victims of the AirAsia Flight 8501 crash is still underway.
Just days before Christmas officials in Hangzhou, China, removed a cross from atop a nursing home.
As search crews struggle to recovery victims of doomed AirAsia Flight 8501, about 100 relatives stayed at the Surabaya Airport in Indonesia, where the pastor of a local church prayed with them on New Year's Eve.
Frigid temperatures didn't freeze out New Year's celebrations across the world as millions took to the streets in multiple cities to celebrate the end of 2014 and start of 2015.
Rich people in France are breathing a sigh of relief now that the country's super tax was dropped Wednesday.
In the Philippines, at least 53 people are dead after Tropical Storm Jangmi hit the island country Monday.