At least 30 civilians were killed and many others were wounded on Sunday after ISIS launched an attack in the Syrian town of al-Bab to prevent people from fleeing, the Turkish military said in a statement on Monday. Syrian rebels supported by Turkish troops have laid siege to the ISIS-held...

China stocks began 2016's final week on a bearish note, as lower commodity prices hurt raw material and energy shares. Hong Kong markets were closed on Monday for a holiday. The CSI300 index was down 0.6 percent, to 3,286.47 points, at the end of the morning session, while the Shanghai...

British singer George Michael, who became one of the pop idols of the 1980s with Wham! and then forged a career as a successful solo artist with sometimes sexually provocative lyrics, died at his home in England on Sunday. He was 53. In the mid-1980s, “Wham! was one of the most successful pop...

An unexploded British bomb from World War Two forced 54,000 people out of their homes in Germany on Christmas Day, the country's biggest such evacuation since the end of hostilities. The huge operation on Sunday in the southern city of Augsburg took 11 hours, involved 900 police officers and...