America's "veepstakes" are under way. Running mates have not played a decisive role in helping win the White House in a generation, but will they do so this year?

Democrat Hillary Clinton's presidential bid is positively lackluster when compared to the Donald Trump spectacle, but the ex-secretary of state could give her campaign a jolt with an inspired choice of running mate.

Hizbullah announced on Friday that its top military commander had been killed in an attack in Syria in a major blow to the coalition supporting the Damascus regime.

The group said it was still investigating the cause of the blast near Damascus airport but it did not immediately point the finger at Israel as it did when the commander's predecessor was assassinated in the Syrian capital in 2008.

Brazilian interim President Michel Temer's post-impeachment government is not a day old and already has an image problem. Where are the women?

All 24 ministers presented to the nation in a televised ceremony, just hours after the suspension of leftist president Dilma Rousseff, bore a striking similarity to each other: They were white males.

Wanted: a new prime minister for Turkey who should be ultra-loyal to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, obedient but still strong enough to steer the government of a country of almost 79 million.

One week after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's shock announcement he was stepping down, there is still uncertainty over who will be the next premier, although several candidates have moved to the top of the list as the Ankara rumor mill goes into frenzy.

Experts say the link between mental illness and so-called "lone wolf" terrorists is driven by the fact that unstable individuals are often influenced by events in the news, a fact that is exploited by global jihadist groups.

Tuesday's knife attack by a 27-year-old German shouting "Allahu Akbar" left one dead and three injured in Munich.

It could be a short honeymoon for Brazil's interim president Michel Temer, who replaces a deeply unpopular leader but inherits many of the same problems.

Brazilians are hoping their country can finally move on from a months-long battle over suspended president Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, which distracted their political leaders from a laundry list of woes, including the worst recession in decades.

Militants inspired by the Islamic State group's ideology are seeking to benefit from the desperation of young Palestinians to strengthen their foothold in the Gaza Strip.

But the Salafists in the enclave tread a fine line to avoid conflict with Hamas, the Islamist movement which has ruled the strip for a decade but does not share IS's world view.

North Korea's first ruling party congress for nearly four decades proclaimed the formal start of the Kim Jong-Un era, but the event was more notable for nods to the past than promises for the future.

Analysts looking for signs of substantive policy shifts or reforms under the young leader were given little to go on, as the 33-year-old Kim signaled few changes at home and a continued foreign policy of belligerent defiance backed by an expanding nuclear arsenal.

Brazil's Senate is set to start voting Wednesday on whether to open an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff. If a simple majority is reached, she will be suspended automatically for six months and Brazil's political crisis will enter dramatic new territory.

But while Rousseff faces the possible end of her political career, Brazil's problems appear far from over. Here's a look at how Latin America's biggest country got into the mess -- and what could happen next.

North Korea has wrapped up its first ruling party congress in nearly four decades.

Here are five things we learned from the four-day gathering of the isolated, nuclear-armed state's top decision-making body.