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I hate the Interstate Highway System. I realize that this is an awkward time to bring this up. Many of you are no doubt planning road trips, and I'm sure you're grateful for the fact that you do not have to traverse dirt...

Part of a plane wing has been discovered on Reunion Island near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, and investigators are looking into whether it could be from an international flight that disappeared last year. The plane pi...

A 23-year-old Florida man was charged Tuesday with plotting to detonate a backpack bomb at a public beach. Harlem Suarez, also known as Almlak Benitez, was allegedly inspired by the Islamic State group, the U.S. Departme...

PASADENA, Calif. -- A huge, ancient pine tree uprooted and fell onto kids at a summer day camp Tuesday, injuring eight children, two of them critically, fire officials said. The...

BALLSTON SPA, NY -- A former New York police officer who pleaded guilty to strangling his wife of four decades during a fight over money has been sentenced to 15...

More tigers are kept as pets in the U.S. than roam free in the wild, campaigners say, as they call for tough new laws to ban the practice on International Tiger Day.

France says it is sending 120 extra police officers to Calais, as migrants attempting to reach Britain say they will continue to try to enter the Channel Tunnel.

Africa should be aiming for green energy, and leapfrog some of the dirty processes used to become prosperous.

Walter Palmer says he believed the hunt was legal and had no idea the animal he shot dead was a "known, local favourite".

The flow of migrants trying to get into Britain from Calais appears "too much" for the UK government to handle, a spokesman for Eurotunnel says.

Eurotunnel called the incident "the biggest incursion effort in the past month and a half"

Concerns of a humanitarian emergency in Haiti are mounting as a growing number of Haitians returning to their country from neighboring Dominican Republic are living in rapidly growing tent cities with little resources.

Nestled in the French Peyrissas region near the Pyrenees mountains bordering Spain, Didier Frechou's pig farm has been passed down from father to son for more than five generations. But after a century of selling whole a...

The Latest: Colorado theater shooter's dad testifies for 2nd day in effort to spare son's life

Albuquerque firefighter Matthew Sanchez wouldn't 'deal' with a 911 caller attempting to save the life of a 17-year-old gunshot victim at a party on 26 June An Albuquerque, New Mexico firefighter who hung up on a frantic ...

The EU commissioner for the single market orders an inquiry into whether Disneyland Paris is overcharging British families.

Late Tuesday, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) filed a "motion to vacate the chair," a parliamentary measure seeking to unseat House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). In his motion, Meadows accused Boehner of having "endeavored t...

WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton ducked on a crucial issue Tuesday, saying she won't take a position on the Keystone pipeline until she's in the White House. "If it's undecided...

Rep. Chaka Fattah (Penn.) and four of his associates were charged with 29 counts of corruption on Wednesday morning for a racketeering conspiracy related to the Democrat's failed 2007 bid to become mayor of Philadelphia....

I would not like to be a political leader today. The pressures for setting policy in uncharted terrain is pretty overwhelming: an aging population; disruptive technology moving at warp speed, leaving people stunned and o...

Pinstriped sage Yogi Berra has been credited with the observation that "you can learn a lot by watching." Alas, such wisdom is wasted on Mayor Putz. Asked why he wasn't...

Some police forces are using overtime to cover gaps caused by staff shortages, BBC Radio 5 live has found.