As the funeral was held for teenager Melissa Bassi, killed in Saturday’s bombing outside an Italian school, police said they were questioning a man in connection with the...
As the funeral was held for teenager Melissa Bassi, killed in Saturday’s bombing outside an Italian school, police said they were questioning a man in connection with the...
Yemen says it will continue what it called its “war on terror," after Al-Qaeda claimed Monday's suicide attack that killed 96 soldiers at a military parade...
An independent panel of American public health officials says doctors should no longer use the PSA test to screen for prostate cancer in healthy men, amid concerns the risks of...
Nearly a quarter of all American teenagers have diabetes or prediabetes, a new study has...
Traders were informed Monday that regulators at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) will be stepping in to oversee a process that will attempt to reconcile...
The Canadian-born founder of the environmental activist group Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson, has been released on bail in Germany.
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FARC guerrillas killed 12 Colombian soldiers Monday and wounded four others in an attack in a rural area in northern Colombia, near the Venezuelan border.
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New research suggests that weight loss through exercise and dieting helps overweight women lower hormones, decreasing their odds of developing breast cancer,...
CHICAGO — A lot has changed here since 1968.
The Democratic National Convention Virginia Alvarez protested against back became to a bloody spectacle that helped...
Forty-three Roman Catholic dioceses, schools, social service agencies and other organizations filed lawsuits in 12 federal courts today, asking judges to release them from the...
Congress now speaks at almost a full grade level lower than it did just seven years ago, with the most conservative members of Congress speaking on average at the lowest grade...
US stocks rebounded today after their worst weekly performance of the year.
Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has resigned following allegations that he bullied agency staff and mistreated female coworkers,...
Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group has agreed to pay $2.6 billion for US cinema chain AMC Entertainment.
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A new study shows sleep apnea can raise the risk for heart attacks, stroke and diabetes and makes a person five times more likely to die from cancer, according to...
NEW YORK – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers Inc., the 180-year-old publisher of textbooks and literature like “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, filed for...
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the government's appeal against a lawsuit targeting its electronic surveillance program, which gives the government authority to...
The Iranian government says it has fired one of its diplomats accused of molesting at least four girls aged between nine and 15 at a private swimming pool in the Brazilian...
The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a Boston University student who was fined $675,000 for downloading 30 songs from the Internet without paying and then...
Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune just dropped over $2 billion dollars as shares of Facebook stock dropped below their initial $38 IPO price.
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A judge sentenced former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi to 30 days in jail Monday for using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man.
Ravi...
The government of Pakistan has unblocked Twitter, hours after shutting the site down over allegedly "blasphemous" material.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani...
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is to face criminal charges over his role in a massive anti-government street protest last month, his lawyer said Monday.
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David Rath, a former Czech health minister and leading opposition figure arrested last week for suspected corruption, may lose his parliamentary immunity following a special...
A Latvian-born Dutch pedophile dubbed “The Monster of Riga” by the Netherlands press has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for abusing more than 60 children,...
A French prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into allegations that former IMF chief and one-time French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn took part in a...
Qantas Airways, Australia's flagship carrier, has announced it is firing 500 workers, arguing that its new fleet of planes requires less maintenance.
And with the...
Earthquake-rattled residents of northeast Italy have spent the night in cars, tents and in emergency accommodation fearing aftershocks from the magnitude-6.0 quake that killed...
LONDON, UK – European budget airline Ryanair has reported record profits for the year to March, but warned that it expects profits to fall in the coming financial year...
BEIJING, China — North Korea has released a number of Chinese fishermen and boats seized earlier this month in the Yellow Sea, which lies between the two countries...
Dozens of former soldiers and several alleged supporters have been arrested in Haiti following a series of protests calling for the Caribbean nation’s disbanded army to...
Three climbers returning from the summit of Mount Everest have died and two more are missing, according to a Nepalese mountaineering official.
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At least 70 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa.
The attacker, who was dressed in military uniform...
The Malian coup leader Amadou Sanogo – who toppled president Amadou Toumani Touré in March – is to retain the title of the former head of state in an...
Nationalist candidate Tomislav Nikolic has caused an upset in Serbia after beating the odds and defeating the country's incumbent president Boris Tadic in a run-off vote....
Used Olympic torches are appearing on eBay even before their bearers are running in the relay to London, netting one fortunate handler more than 153,000 pounds ($237,000)....
NATO leaders meeting in Chicago are expected to reaffirm their plans today to end the Afghanistan war in 2014,...
At least 11 people have been killed and 22 others injured after a bus fell off a mountain cliff in southern Albania on Monday and plunged hundreds of feet into a ravine.
...A rare annular solar eclipse dubbed "the ring of fire" has swept across the globe from southern China to Texas in the United States.
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Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore was hospitalized on Monday after protesters stormed the presidential palace to demand his resignation and beat him up,...
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano held rare talks in Tehran on Monday with Iran’s head of nuclear energy, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani,...
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland in which 270 people were killed, has been buried in a private ceremony in a...
Pollution trapped in thunderclouds is making climate change worse, says a new study.
The...
Robin Gibb, one of the founding members of the Bee Gees, died at the age of 62, after a battle with cancer,...
Former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, who fled Libya after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, has been charged in Mauritania with illegally entering the country....
President Barack Obama’s campaign had to do some damage control on Monday after high-profile supporter Newark Mayor Cory Booker said on Sunday that he was “very...
Eating organic food may make you into a self-righteous jerk, a new study says.
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UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has begun a five-day visit to Zimbabwe, the first such trip since President Robert Mugabe seized power in a violent and disputed election in...
More than 2,000 people who were falsely convicted of serious crimes in the US have been exonerated in the past 23 years, a new study shows.
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Daniel Elizondo, a leader of the Zetas drug cartel in Mexico, was arrested on Sunday,...