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This post-apocalyptic scene of car skeletons is all that remained in the lot after a series of earth-shaking explosions in China on Wednesday. Local authorities report that at least 50...

At a national security forum in Davenport, Iowa, on Thursday, the moderator asked Jeb Bush about his comments linking the rise of Islamic State to the withdrawal of most troops from Iraq in 2009, pressing him on whether...

The U.S. is investigating what it believes are "credible" reports that ISIS fighters used mustard agent in an attack against Kurdish Peshmerga this week, causing several of them to fall ill, U.S. officials working in at ...

Charnesia Corley, a 21-year-old African-American woman from Spring, Texas, was planning to file a federal lawsuit against the Harris County Sheriff's Department over a public genital probing by officers looking for marij...

Death toll rises and fires still rage, but one survivor - a 19-year-old firefighter - is found after the devastating blasts that wrecked the port city on Wednesday Chinese rescue teams say they have located a survivor mo...

No one who witnessed persecution of Leyla and Arif Yunus could doubt that this was a vicious campaign against independent opponents, says Tanya Lokshina The court of grave crimes in Baku found leading Azeri activists, 59...

Indonesian Ferdinand Tjiong and Canadian Neil Bantelman were sentenced to jail for 10 years for child sexual abuse but the conviction was widely criticised Two teachers convicted of sexually abusing three kindergarten st...

Revolt by Syriza dissenters who accuse PM of going back on promises made to voters at election.

Connecticut high court strikes down state's death penalty, giving reprieve to 11 on death row

As Swedish prosecutors drop two sexual assault claims against Julian Assange because of time limits, the BBC's Ben Bland reports on the background to his legal case.

WASHINGTON -- DNA testing all but confirmed Thomas Jefferson slept with his slave Sally Hemings. Now it’s rewriting another lurid chapter in presidential history, this one from the Roaring ’20s....

"Dear aspiring clubmen and women, behold the article of clothing you have awaited your entire life," said Micaela English at Town & Country. The BASK Toweling Blazer ($275) -- available in both men's and women's cuts -- ...

The cats were found living in "filthy, flea-infested conditions" with untreated injuries

Judge set to decide whether man should face life sentence in deadly Indianapolis house blast

Judge tosses conviction of man in prison for 34 years in teen's death, cites new DNA evidence

BBC business reporter Ben Thompson explains why the price of diesel is now cheaper than petrol for the first time since 2001.

Six people, including an American pilot and his Nigerian first officer, were killed in a helicopter crash in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos Wednesday. The chopper, carrying 12 people, crashed into a lagoon while i...

Firefighter rescued from blast zone in China's Tianjin port as death toll reaches 50

Three US Marines who lowered the Stars and Stripes after ties were severed in 1961 helped hoist it once more over the new embassy.

As rumors continue to swirl over whether Vice President Joe Biden will soon toss his hat into the Democratic ring, journalist Carl Bernstein suggested Friday that Biden supporters might like to see their man in office in...

Losing to the sea: 10 years after Katrina, Louisiana's fishing towns melting into the water

Authorities in northern France tell the BBC that British smugglers are among those trafficking migrants to the UK.