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Syrian rebels seized the Kasab village and border crossing with Turkey Monday, an NGO said, as the regime launched fresh air strikes in a bid to halt the opposition advance. The air raids come a day after a Syrian warplane was shot down by Ankara’…

A 15-year-old boy was on Monday charged with the murder of Shereka Fab-Ann Marsh, also 15, who was shot in the neck at a house in east London, Scotland Yard announced. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will appear at Stratford Magistrates…

At least eight people were killed and 18 were missing when a massive landslide slammed “like a freight train” into a mountainside community in the northwestern United States, rescue officials said late Sunday. The wall of mud, rocks and trees smashed…

Visiting US first lady Michelle Obama, along with her daughters and mother, came face-to-face with China’s Terracotta Warriors on Monday on a week-long tour which has taken in several major sites while skirting politics. The family stepped into one…

A court in Egypt on Monday sentenced 529 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death after a mass trial, judicial sources said. Islamist backers of Morsi are facing a deadly crackdown launched by the military-installed authorities…