Search operations have been suspended for the night for an AirAsia plane that lost contact with air traffic control while headed from  Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people onboard. On Sunday evening, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla -- who is leading the...

(Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to the Russian government on Sunday to use its influence on separatists in eastern Ukraine to implement a ceasefire plan agreed in Minsk in September aimed at ending the conflict. Planned talks involving Russia, Ukraine and...

The Saudi government, like the rest of the oil exporting countries, has lost 50 percent of its daily revenues ever since the price of the barrel dropped below $60. This shocker is only momentary. The Saudi government is wealthy enough to compensate for the shortfall and reduce some...

(Anadolu News Agency)-  As 2014 winds down, it comes as no surprise that children were hit the hardest by violence and conflict across the globe, the UN children's agency said.  "Children are the ones who lose everything in war zones," Xenia Schlegen, an activist...