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Four girls aged between 12 and 14 abducted from convent boarding house and raped in the forest by men armed with knives.

EAST WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) -- The Archdiocese of Hartford says police and state child welfare officials are investigating a child sexual abuse complaint against a Roman Catholic priest in East Windsor.

Where some see cause to celebrate after Egyptian President Morsy was removed from power, supporters of the former leader see a coup plot and worsening security.

The six negotiators had been trying to set up talks between the Sunni town of al-Zara and the Alawite.

Mexican naval special forces capture Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, alias Z-40, authorities say. He is wanted for crimes including the slaughter of 260 migrants.MEXICO CITY -- The top leader of Mexico's most feared and v...

Teenager on French island was snorkelling a few metres from shore in area where bathing is prohibited due to danger of attack A shark killed a 15-year old girl on Monday as she swam with mask and flippers a few metres fr...

Comedian David Walliams, who swam the Channel in 2006, is believed to be among those who have donated to Susan Taylor's charities.

Police fire tear gas at protesters who retaliate by throwing rocks at them, as a top US diplomat holds talks with interim leaders.

Only after his death did the authorities discover what had been hidden in the Hudson Valley home where James Nichols lived for decades.

From Berkeley to Brooklyn, our country's most left leaning parents are taking on decidedly conservative child rearing traits. At least, that's what Mark Oppenheimer is arguing in his latest Fatherland column for The New ...

Rachel Jeantel, who popularized the phrase "creepy ass cracker" in uncomfortable testimony that added a new racial dimension to the George Zimmerman trial, gave a lesson about Miami urban culture on CNN Monday night when...

Turkish counter-terror police launched pre-dawn raids against scores of targets across Turkey's largest city Tuesday.

Hoping to corner the personal lubricant market in Israel and capture the randy imaginations of a few tabloid editors, Trigg Laboratories, has announced that their "Wet" line of products are now certifiably kosher--a boon...

In China, there are signs a corruption investigation into GlaxoSmithKline could extend to other drug companies.

A comprehensive review of journalist Joseph McBride's Kennedy assassination book Into My Nightmare.

Mexican reports, confirmed by American official, say marines arrested notoriously brutal drug gangster in Nuevo Laredo Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, the notoriously brutal leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, has bee...

Petraeus to take $1 pay for visiting professorship at CUNY after criticism for high salary

In London, John Doyle has made an honest musical out of "The Color Purple," and an academic makes a deal with the Devil in "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart."

Eliot Spitzer's opponent for New York City comptroller is demanding he release his tax returns -- which is a bit of a reversal, since asking candidates for public office to release their tax returns used to be Spitzer's ...

Why, exactly, did these small-government-loving and individual-freedom-hawking conservatives support a Ukraine political party violating basic human rights? For money, a BuzzFeed article earlier today explained.

Michael Boatwright is a Navy vet who lived in Sweden and taught English in China. California hospital says he likely suffered psychological trauma to suffer from global transient amnesia or fugue state.

New guidelines explicitly ban the financing of and cooperation with Israeli institutions in territory seized during the 1967 war, reflecting increasing tension between Israel and Europe.