No injuries reported in Ankara blast; Turkish media says the pair had planned to carry out a car bomb attack

‘Tis the season to apologize — but don’t look to these public figures as an example when composing your own mea culpas

Lawsuit asks for a restraining order against practice in which chicken is swung over the head, then slaughtered, in a symbolic transference of a person’s sins

Authorities order thousands to evacuate inland to shelters to protect themselves from Category 2 storm

Obama administration accuses Moscow of ordering hacking of American political sites, suggests Russian army committing war crimes in Syria

Research suggests majority of the 3.6 million Europeans living in the UK will be eligible for residency

Rescue group’s volunteers sprint into clouds of dust and dig through debris to save civilians buried under buildings wrecked by regime strikes

An EU-Turkey deal has drastically reduced the number of new arrivals from Syria, but Ankara has threatened to scuttle agreement