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Raad Adayleh / AP The U.S. Accepts 10,000th Syrian Refugee This Year
The Obama administration said it has reached its goal of taking in thousands of refugees from war-torn Syria one month ahead of schedule.
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Arko Datta / Reuters India's Tourism Minister to Women: Don't Wear Skirts Here
The government official recommended women vacationing in India avoid wearing certain clothes and walking alone at night in order to protect themselves.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Could More NFL Players Join Colin Kaepernick's Protest?
The 49ers quarterback won’t stand for the national anthem anymore.
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Grigory Dukor / Reuters The Uzbek President Is Hospitalized for a Stroke
Islam Karimov suffered a hemorrhagic stroke over the weekend, fueling speculation over the likelihood of a transition of power in the country.
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Raheb Homavandi / Reuters Iran's Own Internet
The country has been blocking certain websites for more than a decade. Now, it’s creating an intranet that is entirely Iranian.
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Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters Norway's Mysterious Reindeer Deaths
The country’s environmental officials are investigating the death of 323 reindeer in a remote and mountainous region.
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Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP Arson in Brussels
Belgium’s national forensics lab was set on fire early Monday, causing an explosion in the wing of the building where the evidence labs are located.
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Halit Onur Sandal / AP Turkey's Kurdish Offensive
The U.S. has criticized strikes on villages controlled by a group Washington supports in Syria.
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Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP No Need for Panic at LAX
Passengers at Los Angeles International Airport ran onto the tarmac to escape what turned out to be false reports of a shooter.
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Fawaz Salman / Reuters More Carnage in Yemen
ISIS claimed responsibility for Monday’s suicide bombing in Aden that killed dozens of recruits to a pro-government militia.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Is the TTIP Doomed?
Germany's economic minister says negotiations for the proposed U.S.-European Union trade agreement have "failed."
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Stefano Rellandinii / Reuters Italy Earthquake: The Latest
A powerful aftershock hit the central part of the country Friday morning, and the death toll has risen to 290.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Paul LePage's Banner Week: Racism, Vulgar Voicemails, and an Offer to Duel
It’s the latest outburst from Maine’s colorful, often offensive governor.
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Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters 174 Heroin Overdoses in Six Days in Cincinnati
Officials say they face a public-health emergency, and believe a batch of the opioid may be tainted with an elephant tranquilizer.
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters The Bribery Accusations Against Brazil's Former President
The potential charges come as his protégée, suspended President Dilma Rousseff, faces impeachment proceedings.
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Hugh Gentry / Reuters The World's Biggest Marine Refuge: 442,000 Square Miles, 7,000 Species, 5 Sunken Aircraft Carriers
President Obama quadrupled the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument on Friday, protecting a wide swath of ocean near Hawaii.
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Daniel Ochoa De Olza / AP Did Ryan Lochte Provide False Testimony in Rio?
Brazilian authorities recommended charges against the swimmer, but after other sponsors dropped him, a new company wants to give Lochte a second chance.
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Themba Hadebe / AP Oscar Pistorius's Six-Year Sentence Stands
A bid by prosecutors to challenge the prison term handed down to the Olympic athlete for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, was denied Friday.
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters Screening for Zika in Donated Blood
The Food and Drug Administration now recommends that all blood banks test for the mosquito-borne virus.
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DHA via AP Carnage in a Kurdish Town in Turkey
A bomb in the city of Cizre, near the Syrian border, killed 11 police officers and injured dozens more. The banned PKK has claimed responsibility.
