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Jingle Ball 2016: Justin Bieber, Hailee Steinfeld Gets a Birthday Surprise Backstage

DNCE, Fifth Harmony, Hailee Steinfeld, Charlie Puth, Tinashe, Rita Ora, Jake Miller and Sabrina Carpenter celebrated the true spirit of the holiday season in a big way at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden in New York City Friday night (Dec. 9), performing the debut of an all-star jam of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” with all the proceeds dedicated to helping those in need.

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Myanmar’s military killed seven of my children, says Rohingya refugee who fled village

Noor Ayesha held her last surviving daughter tight as their boat crossed into Bangladeshi waters. She left behind a firebombed home, a dead husband, seven slain children and the soldiers who raped her.

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Japan's frugal millennials a bad omen for its economy

Japan's millennials have grown up in an economy that never seems to grow.

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Trump meets Ohio victims, environment pick slammed

Donald Trump vigorously defended his incoming cabinet against uproar from Democrats, green activists and workers unions who said his nominees for the environment and labor signalled a sharp shift to the right.

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Trump named Time Person of the Year

Time magazine has named Donald Trump its Person of the Year -- calling him "President of the Divided States of America."

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UN "deeply concerned" about civilians trapped in Syria's eastern Aleppo

​The United Nations is "deeply concerned about the safety, protection and well-being of civilians" in Syria's Aleppo, particularly those still trapped in the besieged enclave of eastern Aleppo, including humanitarian workers, a UN spokesman told reporters here Wednesday.

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Drama Review Corner: First Impressions ‘Goblin’

As the tale goes, a goblin is created from a human and with their extravagant powers the goblin also gains immortality. He is doomed to watch as the ones he loves die over and over during his multiple lives, until he finds a bride that will end his suffering with death. When a great warrior is turned into a goblin he battles over centuries until one fateful day when his soft heart bends to save a woman and her unborn child.

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Trump, ex-Vice President Gore meet to talk climate policy

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, a leading voice in the fight against climate change, and Donald Trump, who at one point called it a hoax, met on Monday in what Gore called a "productive" session.

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Movies starring Jo Jung-suk, Gong Hyo-jin compete for top in weekend box office

Jo Jung-suk and Gong Hyo-jin, who recently came off from playing the leads of hit rom-com TV drama "Jealousy Incarnate," have continued to ride huge waves of popularity on the big screen through their latest movies, waging a fierce competition in the weekend box office here, data showed Monday.

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Australian lawmakers approve backpackers tax for working travelers to the country

​People who travel to the country and opt for seasonal, temporary or migrant work will be taxed at a 15 percent rate, settling an 18-month debate.

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Cubans cheer Castro's ashes on last journey across island

Feted by cheering Cubans, a funeral cortege carried the ashes of Fidel Castro out of Havana on Wednesday on a three-day journey to his final resting place in the east of the island where he launched the Cuban Revolution six decades ago.

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Lee Cho Hee Lives Every Fangirl’s Fantasy In The First Teaser For ‘7 First Kisses’!

Lotte Duty Free has put together the ultimate dream team of men into one web drama! The greatest of hallyu stars have come together making fangirls dreams come true.

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Chapecoense plane crash: Football rallies around Brazilian team

The football world has rallied around a Brazilian club which lost most of its players in a plane crash in Colombia

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Poverty, despair breed new generation of Philippine rebels

​In the late-night hours and amid the chirp of crickets, Katryn welcomed a huddle of exhausted Filipino journalists in cheerful spirits like she was home. "Coffee?" she asked with a comforting smile.

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Cubans begin tearful farewell to Fidel Castro

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans flocked to Havana's iconic Revolution Square in a tearful and nostalgic tribute to Fidel Castro on Monday, launching a week-long farewell to the divisive Cold War icon.

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One dead in attack on missionaries' home in France, hunt under way for suspect

Police are searching for an armed man after finding a dead woman in a retirement home where some 60 missionaries are living in southwestern France, sources close to the matter said on Friday.

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France's Fillon seen winning conservatives' primaries: poll

Former French prime minister Francois Fillon will win the conservative nomination for next year's presidential election by a wide margin, an Ifop-Fiducial poll forecast ahead of a run-off vote on Sunday.