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My wife and I worry about how China's bad air and food will affect our child.

The British embassy in Yemen is to close and several other embassies have been told to be vigilant as the US issues a global travel alert.

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Tunisian authorities say a suspected religious extremist blew himself up while making a bomb in a home he was renting near the capital.

Many people, while they deplore Edward Snowden's acts of criminal espionage, welcome the debate he has inspired about privacy. Unfortunately, that's a red herring.

(Reuters) - The New York Times Co has agreed to sell The Boston Globe to the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, John W. Henry, for $70 million in cash, ending its 20-year ownership of the paper.

A total of 111 inmates were killed when riot police began shooting at random during a prison riot in Brazil's Carandiru jail.

Mugabe claims reelection amid allegations of a compromised vote

Talk about a hangover

The site broke the news of the latest chapter in the Anthony Weiner scandal.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, secu...

Dairy giant Fonterra finds bacteria that may cause potentially fatal food poison in products including baby formula.

Bret Easton Ellis, novelist-turned-screenwriter, is live tweeting his reactions to The Canyons, the Lindsay Lohan and James Deen film that he wrote.

the July 3 military coup was not in response to calls for a second wave of the revolution as falsely presented by the anti-Morsi forces. It was a determined and well-orchestrated plot to oust the democratically elected p...

Games Industry International has a terrific interview with former EA chief John Riccitiello in which the ex-executive talks candidly about the video game industry, the rise of mobile gaming, and the future of AAA game de...

Pumping their fists and waving at cheering supporters, thousands of cyclists streamed into Bourne today as they finished the second leg of the 34th annual Pan-Massachusetts Challenge.

Firefighters knocked down a two-alarm fire at a Brazilian restaurant in Abington Saturday, after overcoming challenges involved with reaching the fire through the building's thick rooftop, fire officials said.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- Defensive players don't come near New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady when he's wearing a red jersey at training camp.

Double Olympic gold medallist Laura Trott pips rival Hannah Barnes in a sprint finish to the inaugural RideLondon Grand Prix.

A terror threat from al-Qaeda, Russian asylum for Edward Snowden, and Congress's unfinished business dominate the Sunday television talk shows as lawmakers take a five-week break.

The Canadian Football League's collective bargaining agreement with the CFL Players Association stipulates that CFL teams may not negotiate player contracts with agents who are not registered and licensed by the CFLPA. S...

It hasn't even been a month from the huge Comic-Con announcement that Batman will be in the next Superman movie and the rumors and speculation about casting are already hitting a fever pitch. And, as it turns out, the on...

Officials believe someone set fire to a laundry room in the management office of a subsidized senior housing complex in Ipswich Friday evening, State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan said.