Yahoo Inc has revealed the security of at least 500 million user accounts may have been breached at the end of 2014.

The German government said three young Syrian men arrested in the north of Germany were members of so-called Islamic State (ISIL).

One of the suspects in the Paris terror attacks last November has again refused to speak when he appeared before a judge for the third time.

A court in Britain has jailed the country’s best-known radical Muslim cleric for five and a half years for urging support of ISIL .

A son of Mexico’s infamous drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was among a group of suspected criminals abducted in a top tourist resort.

Fifteen inmates from Guantanamo prison have been sent to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest transfer of detainees during President Obama’s administration.

Firefighters in Northern California are continuing to battle a blaze that has destroyed at least 175 homes and businesses and forced 4,000 people to flee their homes.

In Mexico, around a dozen suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel have been kidnapped in the tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta.

The mayor of the US city of Milwaukee says a still image pulled from a police officer’s body camera shows “without question” that the black man shot by an officer was holding a gun in his hand at the time of the shooting.

A mother of one of the kidnapped Chibok girls has seen proof that her daughter is still alive on a video published on Saturday (August 13) via social media by her captors Boko Haram.