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The two Koreas kick off the first meeting of a joint committee on the Kaesong Industrial Complex, aiming to agree a date for reopening the zone.

Former SS officer Siert Bruins, 92, has appeared in court in Germany accused of murdering a Dutch resistance fighter some 70 years ago.

The military ousted Morsi on July 3 after millions took to the street demanding he step down.

American long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad is only around 2 miles from completing her swim across the Florida Straits on Monday, according to her staff, attempting to become the first person to swim from Cuba to the Flori...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The U.S. ambassador to Brazil has met with his Brazilian counterpart following revelations that the National Security Agency's spy program directly targeted the South American nation's leader.   ...

Diana Nyad was just 17 miles shy early Monday morning of reaching a goal she's been chasing for 35 years.

She's on the verge of completing Cuba to Florida swim

The president is seeking support for action in Syria from his former presidential rival

CAIRO (AP) -- A panel of Egyptian judges recommended Monday the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood group, adding momentum to a push by authorities to ban the ousted Islamist president's main backers. Since the militar...

The Drug Enforcement Agency can comb through roughly 26 years of phone records in their pursuit of big time drug dealers through a newly revealed partnership with AT&T to provide the law enforcement agency with real tim...

Woman arrested after overnight standoff in Dubai over bomb claim     

The Taliban have attacked a US base in eastern Afghanistan, with reports of a series of explosions and a gun battle.

The last day of a New York City dance music festival featuring high-profile acts including Avicii, David Guetta and Diplo was canceled Sunday after the deaths of two attendees and the hospitalizations of several others, ...

Engineering orders in Scotland are at their highest level since the beginning of 2011, according to an industry survey.

Actor Michael Douglas says no crisis in marriage, he and Catherine Zeta-Jones 'are fine'     

BERLIN (AP) -- Actor Michael Douglas says he doesn't have a crisis at home and that he and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones "are fine" and taking a "temporary separation."     

Broadcaster and presenter David Jacobs, whose career spanned seven decades, has died at the age of 87.

Science and progress are featured in "Archangel," Andrea Barrett's collection of fiction set between 1873 and 1939.     

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Republican foreign policy hawks say President Barack Obama must make a strong case for attacking Bashar Assad's Syria if he wants to win congressional backing for the operation.     

'I Wish to Apologize to the People of Illinois' will soon be brought to the stageIllinois has long been known for its sordid political theater, so perhaps it's natural that one of the state's many corruption tales is hea...

Exactly one month since the blackout began -- and a week before football season starts -- CBS and Time Warner Cable have come to agreement to end their dispute over transmission and carriage rights, CBS' communications e...

Surge in part-time hiring prompts questions on health care reform's impact