Russian President Vladimir Putin has canceled a visit to Paris next week after President Francois Hollande said he would see him only for talks on Syria - the latest episode in deteriorating relations between Moscow and the West. French officials have been grappling for ways to put new...

Chicago's cash-strapped schools and its teachers' union agreed to a contract proposal late on Monday, union and city officials said, averting a strike set for Tuesday in the third largest U.S. public school system. The four-year agreement, which the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) will...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- 3 civilians including a child have been killed and 17 injured by regime warplanes bombing Monday on towns in besieged Homs northern countryside, local sources reported. Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Homs said regime jets launched 10 air raids on Talbiyse town killing 4 civilians...

A suspected car bomb on Monday killed at least 10 police amid increased Taliban attacks on the besieged capital of the southwestern Afghan province of Helmand, with the toll expected to rise, a security official said. The blast, in the city of Lashkar Gah, killed 10 police officers, with at...