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Conflicts and strained relations between a sitting President and Congressional members of his own party during a second term are certainly not unheard of. After all, their political situations differ. Lawmakers are trying to survive in what is traditionally a difficult political environment. The occupant of the White House will not have to be on a ballot again, and tends to become completely caught up with his/her Presidential legacy. It's usually written off as "business as usual" inside the Capital Beltway. But, the level of discontent, desperation, and in some cases, sheer hysteria among Democrats these past two weeks is most definitely not business as usual.

Six months since intense fighting reached Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, scores of children have been killed, hundreds have been maimed and thousands have been displaced.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

A controversial plan by an Israeli political leader to annex parts of the occupied West Bank has triggered an angry debate in Israel, exposing serious divisions in the coalition government over the future of the peace process with the Palestinians.

When NATO jets attacked Serbian military targets in Kosovo in 1999, relations between the West and Russia plummeted to lows not seen since before the Soviet collapse eight years earlier.

Pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk say a van used by separatist rebel leader Denis Pushilin exploded Thursday in the central city, injuring at least three bodyguards.

A poisonous gas leak at a government-run steel plant in central India has killed six people and injured at least 30 others.

An Islamist militants' seizure of the Turkish consulate in the Iraqi city of Mosul is stoking concerns Ankara could intervene in the fast-spreading insurgency.

Iraqis fleeing vioelence in Mosul arrive in the Kurdistan region.

Around 500,000 people, up to half of them children, have been forced to flee their homes since violence erupted on 5 June in the Iraqi city of Mosul, authorities say, and the violence is spreading.