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A US Airways flight en route from Italy to the United States was diverted to Ireland after nine flight attendants became ill, officials said Saturday.

For his 60th birthday, the old Japanese dinosaur gets a dawdling American version of epic destruction

Pro-Russian rebels in provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk vote in election that could pave the way for secession.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s been nearly three years since a 5.8-magnitude earthquake rattled through Washington, D.C., structurally damaging the iconic Washington Monument. It reopens on Monday to the public, marking a c...

Google shows off the Trekker backpack technology that allows it to map street views off the beaten path.

Michael Sam was picked by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the NFL draft Saturday, becoming the first openly gay player drafted by a pro football team.

A Texas high school student agrees with his art teacher that if he can get 15,000 retweets, his whole class can skip their final exams. The school is not impressed.

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Hundreds of Chicago-area activists rallied Saturday in the Loop to offer support and a voice for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last month in the African country.

Vietnam allowed several hundred demonstrators to stage a noisy rally outside the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi on Sunday against Beijing's deployment of an oil rig in the contested South China Sea that has triggered a tense s...

Violence erupted across Iraq on Saturday, with dozens of killings reported in shellings, bombings and shootings, authorities said.

Students who claim that economics courses fail to explain the 2008 crash are gaining support from British business. Here, two Cambridge academics agree it's time for a change

 Autodesk is known primarily for enterprise software. It's a great company in a lucrative space, but not exactly who you might expect to have an especially fun office space. But for months now, people have been telling ...

O2, LondonShe's up, she's down, she raunches all around, but scratch the surface of Miley Cyrus's Bangerz show and there's method in her cartoon madness Miley Cyrus, it transpires, is not some post-feminist antichrist se...

Small plane carrying French tourists crash lands in N. Arizona, killing 1

University of Missouri defensive end Michael Sam becomes first openly gay player chosen for US National Football League.

Britain has more billionaires per head of population than any other country, annual survey finds

Hugh Jackman has had another cancerous growth removed.

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Brazil has begun a massive military operation to secure its lengthy borders ahead of next month's World Cup.

From Damascus to Bulgaria for teenager Mohamed

The New York Jets already added outside linebacker help with the addition of IK Enemkpali in the sixth round, but Utah product Trevor Reilly provided too much value both on and off the field to pass up at this point.  ...