Heavily armed police in Australia stormed a Sydney cafe where a gunman had held more than a dozen people hostage early Tuesday, ending a tense standoff that lasted more than 16 hours and saw at least three people die, including the gunman
The actor's wife fiercely defended her husband in a statement Monday as outrage mounts over allegations he drugged and raped multiple women
Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say a man killed six people and seriously wounded another in three homes and still remains at large
The NFL Players Association has filed a lawsuit against the NFL in federal court in Minneapolis, challenging the impartiality of Harold Henderson, who upheld NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s suspension of Adrian Peterson’s on Friday
Families of nine of the 26 people killed and a teacher injured at the Sandy Hook Elementary School have filed a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit against the manufacturer, distributor and seller of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle used in the shooting
The iconic author’s new book will be titled In the Unlikely Event, and takes place in Elizabeth, New Jersey — where Blume grew up — during a series of non-fictional plane crashes that happened between 1951 and 1952
The world has only five northern white rhinos left, after the sixth, Angalifu, died at the San Diego Zoo on Sunday. He was 44 and zoo officials said he had been refusing food for a week. Decades of wide-scale poaching have driven the rhinos to the brink of extinction
The star of The Theory of Everything, 32, tied the knot with fiancée Hannah Bagshawe on Monday at Babington House in Somerset, England. The two, who were engaged over Memorial Day weekend, celebrated with a small number of family and friends
Sony Pictures Entertainment demanded that media outlets stop reporting on the leaked emails and stolen documents obtained by hackers, with an attorney writing a Dec. 14 letter to several organizations they would be responsible for "any damage or loss"
Jennifer Lee, the director of Frozen, says she now finds herself apologizing to parents whose kids are still obsessed with the film and its Oscar-winning song "Let It Go." The popular anthem was sung by Idina Menzel in the film and went on to be a worldwide hit
U.K. businesses that sell via Amazon.com’s local site are up in arms over a software glitch that led to their items being sold for as little as a penny. One company owner claimed her company had lost over $30,000 overnight
D'Angelo's first album in 14 years is impressively timely, unveiled as it was at a New York City listening session one day after an estimated 25,000 people in the same city protested police brutality against unarmed black citizens. Black Messiah came out at midnight
TIME's photo editors present a selection of underreported, improbable and astounding images from 2014
