DUBLIN – Ryanair says it has agreed to sell its shares in Irish rival Aer Lingus to IAG, putting the British Airways parent solidly on course to acquire the former Irish national airline. Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary says Friday that the budget airline’s board has voted unanimously to sell …

JUBA, South Sudan – A South Sudanese official says a United Nations diplomat based in the country’s northern Unity state will be expelled from the state in a retaliatory move following the publication of a human rights report last month that accused government forces of committing widespread attacks on civilians …

SALT LAKE CITY – A death row inmate appealing his sentence of death by firing squad says the execution method Utah recently approved as a backup to lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. Ron Lafferty argues in new court documents that the firing squad will cause a lingering, unnecessarily …

LONDON – British pilots have conducted air strikes on targets in Syria while embedded with other military forces fighting the Islamic State group (ISIS), Britain’s Ministry of Defense said Friday. Defense officials confirmed that pilots acting under the command of other forces, such as the United States and Canada, have …

For the fourth time in two years, I am testifying before a congressional panel investigating the unlawful and unconstitutional targeting scheme by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The necessity of repeated trips to Capitol Hill on behalf of my clients to bring national attention to this matter is reflective of …

Programming alert: Don’t miss Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren’s “On the Record Special: Louis Zamperini: A Journey of Faith” with Franklin Graham on December 27 at 10 pm ET on Fox News Channel. The special will be rebroadcast on December 31 at 7pm ET and on January 1 at …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville civil rights advocate, businessman and state commissioner Francis Guess has died. He was 69. Family friend Vincent Williams said Guess died at his home Thursday night. The cause of death was not yet known. Guess was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Commission on Civil …

Now that Boston is out of the picture, the U.S. Olympic Committee wants to explore other opportunities to host the 2024 Games. In a statement Monday announcing the end of the bid in Boston, USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said the federation was still interested in mounting a bid for the …

BEIRUT – Activists say insurgents have captured strategic hills and a power station in northwestern Syria, bringing them closer to strongholds of President Bashar Assad. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Center said militants were advancing Tuesday in the Sahl al-Ghab region north of the …

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s government has declared a first-ever “gender alert” for a central state due to a high incidence of killings and disappearances of women. The alert for the State of Mexico, outside the capital, was decreed by the Interior Department. It cites “systematic violence against women” and “an …