BEIJING – Chinese authorities have evacuated tens of thousands of people and canceled scores of trains as a super-typhoon with wind gusts up to 200 kilometers per hour (125 mph) heads toward the southeastern coast.China's national weather service says super Typhoon Chan-hom is expected…

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina – A look back at the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia.___THE TOWN AND ITS PEOPLENear the Serbian border, Srebrenica, or silver town, is named after the ore mined by the Romans. Its prewar population, with surrounding villages, was 36,666 —…

More than one year after Boko Haram militants kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls, officials in Nigeria continue to grapple with how to defeat the jihadist group.Among the new challenges are the recent attacks on civilians that, some experts say, are evidence the situation is getting…

Nutrition experts dole out a ton of advice about how to eat well—and, most importantly, not lose your mind doing it. But there are some tips that stand the test of time, and that experts themselves follow. (Because yes, they're human, too.) Here are 10…

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria's Boko Haram extremists are offering to free more than 200 young women and girls kidnapped from a boarding school in the town of Chibok in exchange for the release of militant leaders held by the government, a human rights activist has…

Can a diet that mimics fasting really be good for us?According to a study published in Cell Metabolism, a diet that mimics fasting can actually reduce your risk factors for aging, cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This is not the first study to broach…

Microsoft’s dreams of competing with iOS and Android in the mass consumer smartphone market are officially dead. Microsoft on Wednesday announced a major restructuring of its hardware division that will include layoffs of 7,800 employees “primarily in the phone business.” Instead of trying to appeal…

Paramedics treated more than 20 people for hypothermia after a pre-dawn torrential rain doused a crowd of several hundred thousand waiting to hear Pope Francis speak in Ecuador.City Operations director Cristian Rivera said the water-logged crowd received blankets from emergency workers as they awaited…

QUITO, Ecuador – Pope Francis travels to the Ecuadorean port of Guayaquil on Monday for a Mass expected to draw more than 1 million people, as Latin America's first pontiff tours his home continent bringing a message of compassion for the weak and respect for…

U.S.-led coalition forces conducted 16 airstrikes Saturday and early Sunday against key ISIS buildings and transit routes in the terror group’s stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, a U.S. Army official said.At least 16 airstrikes were reported late Saturday and early Sunday, triggering successive explosions that…