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Wikileaks Release Largest Ever Document Dump Of Secret U.S. Cables

Whistleblowing website publishes 1.7 million US documents from 1973 to 1976, including many written by Henry Kissinger.

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The Raid

The full story of the night Bin Laden was killed, as told by those in the crosshairs.

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The Bin Ladens' Life On The Run

Osama bin Laden lived in Pakistan for nine years, staying in at least six different locations. While maintaining a very low profile, he evaded detection thanks to multiple failures of the Pakistani...

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Palestinian and Israeli Peace Talks To Resume

The US State Department says Palestinian and Israeli officials will meet in Washington to discuss resuming negotiations.

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Egypt's Sexual Assault Epidemic

Women at Egypt's protests often must fight more than the political cause that brought them into the streets.

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IOC 'Satisfied' Despite Russia's Anti-Gay Law

The International Olympic Committee on Thursday declared Russia's "magnificent" Olympic venues in Sochi were ready for the 2014 Winter Games, adding that Russia's recent ban on homosexual "propaganda"...

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Israel To Drill For Oil In The West Bank

A large reserve may lie under Israel and the occupied territories, but Palestinians are unlikely to reap the benefits.

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Waiting Endlessly On Nigeria's Death Row

For 17 years, Thankgod Ebohs, an inmate of Oko Prison, lived under the threat of facing the gallows. Each day, he feared that the authorities would come for him.

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Was The International Space Station Worth It?

The money that went into the ISS could have built 15 Large Hadron Colliders, some are asking if it was a worthwhile investment.

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Thousands Evacuated After Gaza Floods

At least 5,000 people have been evacuated from flood-damaged homes in northern Gaza in what the United Nations called "a disaster area". The flooding, caused by four days of torrential rain, was so...

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Second Blast Kills At Least 14 In Russia

Local news agency says at least 14 people killed and another 23 wounded after a trolleybus explodes in Volgograd city.

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How Rwanda's Genocide Unfolded

In the space of 100 days at least 800,000 were killed in one of the most brutally efficient genocides in history.

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Nigerian Army Frees Kidnapped Female Students

Nigerian soldiers have freed most of the more than 100 female pupils who were abducted by armed men in the northeast state of Borno, according to the country's military.

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Three Killed At Brussels Jewish Museum

Three people were killed and one badly injured after a man opened fire.

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The Peril Of Hipster Economics

On May 16, an artist, a railway service and a government agency spent $291,978 to block poverty from the public eye.

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Egypt Sentences Journalists To Prison For Reporting On Revolution

Two Al Jazeera English journalists have been sentenced to seven years in jail and one to 10 years by an Egyptian court on charges including aiding the Muslim Brotherhood and reporting false news.

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West Bank Protests Over Gaza Turn Deadly

Israeli police kill two Palestinians during rallies in solidarity with battered Gaza Strip, where death toll topped 800.

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Death Toll In Gaza Reaches 1,000

More than halfway into the 12-hour ceasefire, medics said 85 bodies had been retrieved from buildings ground into rubble across the Gaza Strip. Thirty-seven Israeli soldiers have also been killed,...

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Israel Resumes Shelling Of Gaza Strip

In a statement on Sunday the Israeli military attributed its decision to resume aerial, naval and ground activity to "Hamas's incessant rocket fire throughout the humanitarian window, which was agreed...

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Kidnapped U.S. Journalist Freed In Syria

Peter Theo Curtis' release comes just days after the beheading of US journalist James Foley by the Islamic State group.

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