Violence in Syria claimed at least 46 lives on Friday, including the first reported fatalities in the commercial city of Aleppo.

Two days of ethnic clashes have killed at least 18 people in the remote north Kenyan region of Moyale.

Netherlands hopes to introduce a ban on the wearing of the full Islamic veil early next year.

A U.S. man has been sentenced to death for killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in their suburban home.

Holocaust survivors joined Israeli and Polish officials Friday marking global Holocaust Remembrance Day at ceremonies for the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.