Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday that Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad's international airport.
Interpol has issued an international notice to Lebanon for the arrest of Carlos Ghosn, the former auto industry executive who became a fugitive after he turned up in Lebanon on Tuesday. Here's what you need to know about him and his daring escape from Japan.
Two off-duty Victoria police officers are being hailed for intervening in a sex assault while on holiday in Hawaii.
U-Haul International Inc. has announced plans to stop interviewing and hiring nicotine users, including people who use e-cigarettes and vaping products.
A photo posted on social media showing 18 Detroit firefighters posing in front of a home engulfed in flames was “inappropriate and unprofessional” and will result in disciplinary action, Fire Commissioner Eric Jones said.
A deal between conservatives and Greens to form a governing coalition in Austria includes banning headscarves in school until the age of 14 and preventive custody for potentially dangerous individuals.
Lebanon's justice minister said Thursday the country received an international wanted notice from Interpol for former Nissan chair Carlos Ghosn, who fled Japan and transited through Turkey before his trial on financial misconduct charges.
A woman and her two adult daughters are under investigation in Germany for launching paper sky lanterns for the new year, apparently igniting a fire that killed more than 30 zoo animals, officials said Thursday.
Former Obama housing secretary Julian Castro on Thursday ended his run for president that pushed the 2020 field on immigration and swung hard at rivals on the debate stage but never found a foothold to climb from the back of the pack.
Turkish lawmakers are set to back a bill on Thursday that allows troop deployment in Tripoli, but that is likely to begin with military support, training and drones in the air rather than boots on the ground.
Don Larsen, the journeyman pitcher who reached the heights of baseball glory when he threw a perfect game in 1956 with the New York Yankees for the only no-hitter in World Series history, died Wednesday night. He was 90.
Thousands of tourists fled Australia's wildfire-ravaged eastern coast Thursday ahead of worsening conditions as the military started to evacuate people trapped on the shore further south.
Taiwan's top military official was killed in an air force helicopter crash Thursday morning that killed seven other people, the defence ministry said.
