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A ferry carrying scores of people sank off Mumbai, India, after reportedly being hit by a navy speedboat. Many of the passengers were rescued by the Indian coast guard but several people were confirmed dead, with others still missing at sea.

"The current situation in Syria compels us to ask for your help in find Austin and safely reuniting our family," wrote Debra Tice, whose son went missing in Syria in 2012.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Tice's mother his country won't conduct airstrikes near a secret prison outside Damascus where she believes he may be ...

Hopes are rising for an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire deal in Gaza as negotiators say talks are in the final stages. NBC News' Raf Sanchez reports from Tel Aviv on the latest push for peace.

"We are talking about a system of state terror," Stephen Rapp, former U.S. war crimes ambassador at large, said of how people lived in Syria under the Assad regime.

In an excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography, the pontiff said that two suicide bombers had been planning to attack one of his events in Mosul.

Japan's Space One terminated the flight of its Kairos small rocket shortly after liftoff, marking the end of its second attempt in nine months to become the country's first company to deliver a satellite to space.

Thousands of people are waiting for aid and supplies after Cyclone Chido devastated the island of Mayotte, a French Indian Ocean territory. French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said the death toll is still unknown but could be upwards of ...

Ukraine security service claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed a top Russian general in Moscow. Lt. Gen. Igor Krillov was the head of Russia's chemical, radiological and biological weapons unit. NBC News' Keir Simmons reports.

The pain is often described as similar to period cramps, catching some women off guard if it turns out to be more severe.