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John Bush has been charged with child abduction after allegedly disappearing with 14-year-old Lorna Vickerage.

Robert Irwin's installation "Scrim Veil -- Black Rectangle -- Natural Light," last seen on the Whitney Museum's fourth floor in 1977, will be back through Sept. 1.

The massive landslide happened in one of the biggest open-pit mines in the world.

A 21-year-old Army ranger from Dudley died during a training exercise in Georgia Thursday, a spokesman for the 75th Ranger Regiment said. Rangers found Private First Class Christopher P. Dona unconscious on the ground wi...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazilian police have dispersed a small protest against a public transport fare hike that broke out in front of Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium ahead of the Mexico-Italy soccer match during the C...

It can generally be assumed that Russia and the U.S. are spying on each other at all times. Spies get busted on each side with some regularity. But the latest leak from Edward Snowden shows the National Security Agency o...

Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas has announced that he will resign on Monday, days after a close aide is charged with corruption and abuse of power.

The last four U.S. Opens have been won by a golfer claiming his first victory in a major. On Sunday at Merion, Justin Rose was looking to keep that recent tradition alive.

Between this tease of a summer and the constant, imminent threat of the largest municipal bankruptcy in history, you could say we Detroiters have plenty to gripe about. Instead, this week, we found so many examples of li...

Israel has warned there should be no let-up in pressure on Iran to stop its nuclear programme following the election of reformist-backed Hassan Rouhani as president.

The last four U.S. Opens have been won by a golfer claiming his first victory in a major. Justin Rose is looking to keep that recent tradition alive.

ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) -- This isn't the kind of record Tiger Woods had in mind at the U.S. Open. Woods went out-of-bounds on his second tee shot of the final round at Merion and closed with a 4-over 74. That gave him his wor...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- A Honduran political party led by ousted President Manuel Zelaya has chosen his wife to be its presidential candidate in elections next November.

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Northern Ireland police have a new eye in the sky just in time for the G-8 summit of world leaders. A unit of surveillance drones will be used here for the first time to keep tabs on...

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This article questions the health of the health system. Are we truly receiving the care we need? Do we need to adapt a new approach, perhaps a health approach rather than one that is based on sickness? The article tells ...

Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Alex Cobb was released from the hospital Sunday, a day after getting struck in the head with a line drive.

A lawsuit has exposed a fight between two organizations with diverging ideas of how to preserve the young diarist's legacy.

By Nick Masuda, Golfweek ARDMORE, Pa. - Tiger Woods' winless streak in the majors has officially moved into its sixth calendar year, and this one got ugly during the weekend. Over his final 36 holes, Woods carded 11 boge...

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) -- Heavy weekend rains have caused severe flooding in the Mexican city of Piedras Negras on the border with Texas. Coahuila state officials say one person died and 10,000 houses are damaged, l...

They practice in the back of a dance studio next to a Wendy's restaurant in a strip mall. Six ballet dancers leap across the floor, hidden from view from the mothers watching their daughters in pink leotards in a front r...

BEIRUT (AP) -- Four Shiite Lebanese men were killed Sunday in an ambush in a volatile area by the border with Syria, hiking already high sectarian tensions and concerns over the spillover of the civil war raging next doo...