The U.S. saw a moderate bump in violent crime in 2015, but that was far short of recent highs, according to an annual FBI report released Monday. That marks the first uptick in violent crime in three years. The bureau said violent crime rose 3.9 percent year on year, but that figure is...

The French capital's city council voted Monday in favor of banning cars along the right bank of the Seine River as part of an effort to reduce air pollution. Mayor Anne Hidalgo welcomed the “historic decision” as “the end of an urban motorway and the taking back of the Seine". A...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- 350 people, third of them rebel fighters, have been evacuated from their last foothold in the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city on Monday, regime news agency SANA and local reporter said. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said more than 100 fighters were in the group...

Eight soldiers and 25 Boko Haram fighters were killed in two separate encounters in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Sunday as government troops intensified operations to clear the insurgency from the region, according to the military. In the first incident, army spokesman Sani Usman...