The United Nations Human Rights Council is meeting to discuss the situation in South Sudan, with the world body's top human rights official saying there's still time for action to avoid a "worst-case scenario" in the five-year-old country. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner...

 Canadian actor Alan Thicke, best known for his role as the dad in 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains" and as the father of singer Robin Thicke, has died, his publicity agency said on Twitter. He was 69. Thicke, who became a household name after starring as psychiatrist Jason Seaver in the US...

The Islamic State group was manufacturing weapons in and around Mosul on an industrial scale with products largely purchased in bulk from Turkey, according to a report published by an arms research group Wednesday. The findings show that IS maintained a "robust and reliable" supply chain...

(Al Jazeera)- South Korean MPs are holding a hearing to investigate why impeached President Park Geun-hye went "missing" during a major ferry disaster in 2014 - the latest trouble to hit the pressured leader. Seven hours elapsed between the first news reports that a ferry carrying hundreds...