Barack Obama travels to Chicago for his farewell speech Tuesday, returning to the town where his meteoric rise to become America's first black president all began. The third largest U.S. city is also important to his post-presidency: it will be home to the Obama presidential library...

Five people were killed and 27 others injured Sunday when a bus carrying Portuguese tourists crashed off a highway in central France known locally as the "road of death", authorities said. The 40-seat bus was on its way to Switzerland when tragedy struck, the local Creusot-Info website said....

In a former high school classroom in this northeastern Syrian town, about 250 Arab recruits for the U.S.-backed war against the Islamic State were being prepped by Kurdish instructors to receive military training from American troops.  Most of the recruits were from villages surrounding...

Syrian refugees in Lebanon are "barely coping", with half of children out of school and more families falling into poverty, a UN study has found. Some 1.5 million Syrians seeking refuge in Lebanon remain highly vulnerable, even after three years of living there, and their economic situation...