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A Dundee father-of-three dies after falling from the 10th floor of a building in the holiday resort of Magaluf.

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Zhang Xin is an example of true grit success. She rose from the faceless assembly line of a Beijing factory to a property magnate in China.

The Internet is ablaze with speculation that an Aeroflot flight between Moscow and Havana might be carrying Edward Snowden. It's an idea is based on the thinnest of threads: a shift in the flight's normal route away from...

New disclosures and witness statements emerging in the murder case against Aaron Hernandez leave the former New England Patriot with dwindling options for a defense strategy against charges that could keep him locked up ...

Though the official word is that Snowden has been holed up in Moscow's airport, inside sources believe he was taken soon after his arrival to a secure location run by the Russian government

Non-white majority Mankind, mostly descendants of the planet"s earliest humans educated in the arts and sciences, long plundered by savage descendants of ferocious Vikings and other primitive Germanic tribes, will soon f...

Musician, model and former French First Lady Carla Bruni on two-career marriages, pirates and her other dad

For all the problems facing the United States in the early years of the 21st century--mission creep, gridlock, cat poop--the unlawful quartering of soldiers in Americans' homes during times of peace is one we've managed ...

How the founding fathers of America would look upon Edward Snowden. As a hero or not? A question that although is tricky, is also vitally important in discussions about America's future.

There doesn't seem to be much debate anymore about whether the Egyptian military pulled off a coup when they deposed President Mohammed Morsi last week, but now there are differing opinions about whether it was actually ...

Today in celebrity news: King of Queens actress Leah Remini is leaving her longtime church, Justin Bieber gets a second chance, and the Royal Baby preparations are well under way.

The teen is recovering in a South African hospital after she was attacked.

Confined to the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania about a decade ago, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked his jailers whether he could embark on an unusual projec...

Stun gun was used on suspect during arrest on Wednesday night, Greater Manchester police say A man has died after police shot him with a Taser, Greater Manchester police have said. The 23-year-old was said to have suffer...

A combination of burning trees for energy and capturing and storing carbon dioxide could offset and even reverse emissions Global warming could be reversed used a combination of burning trees and crops for energy, and ca...

A pilot who was learning to fly a Boeing 777 when it crashed in San Francisco says he saw a bright flash 30 seconds before impact.

Vice-premier Wang Yang says nations must build trust of a straight marriage, but not like Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng The relationship between the United States and China is like a marriage - but not a gay one - a visi...

Company says court papers would show the public it fought strenuously against intelligence agencies accessing its data Yahoo has called on Fisa, the secretive US surveillance court, to let it publish its legal argument a...

Republicans indicated they would not take up anything resembling a bill that passed the Senate, putting in jeopardy the future of sweeping legislation that includes a path to citizenship.

JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to report its performance figure for the second quarter of the year before the market opens this Friday, July 12. And as it sticks to its tradition of being the first to mark the beginning of ...

Six women attempted to climb one of Europe's tallest buildings Thursday to rally against Shell's Arctic drilling plan.