A 16-year-old boy in Japan was arrested Saturday after he confessed to killing his mother by repeatedly striking her head with a hammer and stabbing her several times, police said. The high school student, whose name was withheld because he is a minor, called police around 1:40 a.m. to...

"Biggest", "hugest", "most ever". Analysts are piling up the superlatives as China prepares to splash out astronomical sums for footballing talent during the winter transfer window in deals that analysts say involve more money than sense. Last year Chinese teams broke the Asian transfer...

A Yazidi woman held captive by ISIS militants for more than two years managed to escape when Iraqi forces pushed into Mosul and provided information that helped them retake a neighbourhood of the city, Iraqi commanders said. The 42-year old woman, who asked to remain unnamed, was kidnapped...

The Pentagon said Friday it believes that ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is indeed alive, despite repeated efforts by the U.S.-led coalition to take out the jihadist group leader. Baghdadi has kept a low profile, despite having declared himself the leader of a renewed Muslim caliphate, but...