UNITED STATES

The latest carnage in the eastern Ukrainian city has prompted the West to ratchet up pressure on Russia.

Global financial markets reacted to the Greek election on Monday with the euro dropping to near an 11-year low against the dollar.

Paulina Vega of Colombia was named the 2014 Miss Universe winner on Sunday

Nigerian forces battled Boko Haram militants in clashes that killed 200 combatants.

Rebels from the al-Nusra Front and other opposition groups took a strategic military base in the southern Syria.

Obama will implement measures to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

Narendra Modi calls agreement "the centerpiece of Indo-U.S. understanding" in comments at the beginning of Barack Obama's visit to India.

Felipe Calderon tells IBTimes most undocumented immigrants don't want to become American citizens: They merely want to work in the U.S.

Critics of quantitative easing say it doesn't do much to help the real economy and is instead a "backdoor" bailout of banks.

No sooner had Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi announced his resignation than his country's tenuous political fabric began to disintegrate.

Indian authorities installed 15,000 security cameras and put 40,000 security personnel on the streets for the U.S. president's visit.

The comments come as universities in the country face increasing pressure to teach in line with the ideological diktats of the government.

Nearby U.S. Highway 54 will likely be closed for next six hours as authorities investigate.

They said they’d reached an agreement that “improves the competitive landscape and achieves mission assurance for national security space launches."

At least 30 people were killed and 83 others wounded after an attack on civilian neighborhoods Saturday in Ukraine's strategic port of Mariupol.

Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to speak with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and leading challenger Muhammadu Buharim.

The threats against Delta Flight 1156, coming from Portland, Oregon, and Southwest Airlines Flight 2492, from Milwaukee, were deemed credible.

The U.S. and the U.K. both had advised Japan not to pay ransom money to the Islamic State group for the two hostages.

Haruna Yukawa's death was allegedly captured in an Islamic State group beheading video days after Japanese PM vowed to save hostages' lives.

The official national day is usually accompanied by parades and events around the country.

The Saudi Arabian king inherits a power struggle with Iran, one reason he needs to make new friends in the Middle East.