Iraqi officials say a car bomb in a Shiite suburb of Baghdad has killed four people and wounded 12 others. Two police officers say the parked car bomb went off early morning today in Hussainya and killed four civilians.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife, Carla Bruni, were clearly taken with President Barack Obama and his family back in 2011.

A rusted 1.5-meter-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between a luxury apartment building and a mosque site that once prompted virulent national debate about Islam and free speech.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife, Carla Bruni, were clearly taken with President Barack Obama and his family back in 2011.

E.L. Konigsburg, an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books, has died. She was 83.
Her son Paul Konigsburg says she died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia.

The US police on Friday captured an ethnic Chechen teenager suspected of staging the Boston Marathon bombings after a desperate manhunt that paralysed the city and its suburbs.

A woman accused of stalking Hugh Jackman and throwing a razor at him has been indicted by a New York city grand jury.

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed a university police officer and hurled explosives at the police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left one of them dead and his brothe

Amsterdam’s Anne Frank museum on Monday defended teen idol Justin Bieber amid a furore over his comments that he hoped the Jewish teen who died in a Nazi camp would have been a fan.

A government official in Somalia says the death toll from al-Shabab’s attack on Mogadishu’s Supreme Court complex has risen to 35.