Syria’s raging civil war was set to top the agenda at the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland starting on Monday, with President Barack Obama trying to get Russia's Vladimir Putin, Syria's most powerful ally, to help bring Bashar Assad to the negotiating table. The leaders' first private face-to-face meeting in about a year comes after Obama angered Moscow by authorizing American military su...
News analysisDancing in the streets of Tehran greeted the news that Hassan Rohani had won Iran’s race for president over the weekend, as voters hailed the reformist cleric’s victory.
During the more than a decade that Ariel Castro allegedly held kidnapped teenagers and young women captive in his home at 2207 Seymour Ave., police officers were within shouting distance of the house more than a thousand times, according to Cleveland Police Department records analyzed by NBC News.From the time the first kidnap victim vanished in August 2002 until the three women and a 6-year-old g...
A pair of Turkey’s labor unions said Sunday that they will hold a general strike Monday after riot police raided an Istanbul park and public square, firing plumes of powerful tear gas and water cannons at anti-government demonstrators.Turkish police detained 441 people in connection with clashes in Istanbul on Sunday, an official at the city's bar association told Reuters on Monday.
A Utah man was critically injured Sunday after he was shot in the back of the head while attending Mass.Police in Ogden, Utah, about 40 miles north of Salt Lake City, say Charles Richard Jennings, 35, entered St.
The young sisters played outside together every day that summer in a Vallejo, Calif., suburb, and during one long, boring summer day, the older girl thought of a new way to pass the time.
Moms do this and Moms think that. Yes, that is much of what we spend our time discussing here on TODAY Moms. But Dads, this one's for you! Because it's Father's Day and because we appreciate you and we think there's nothing more adorable than you striking a pose with your little look-alikes.We asked readers to share their best Dad and mini-me photos and received hundreds of submissions.
The Northern Ireland border village of Belcoo has never looked so good. And critics say that's just the problem.Organizers of the Group of Eight summit of world leaders in Northern Ireland June 17-18 have spent weeks sprucing up the facades of businesses all around the County Fermanagh venue.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with extensive experience in all three branches of the government to be the State Department's special envoy for closing down the military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.Clifford Sloan is the pick to reopen the State Department's Office of Guantanamo Closure, shuttered since January and folded into...
