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The UK will continue to push for a "strong international response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria", Foreign Secretary William Hague tells MPs.

German justice officials say 30 former Auschwitz death camp guards still living in Germany should face prosecution.

The Japanese government on Tuesday said it would spend the equivalent of $470 million to try to tackle the toxic water crisis at the country's crippled nuclear power plant.

PARIS -- France released an intelligence report on Monday alleging chemical weapons use by Syria's regime that dovetailed with similar US claims, as President Bashar Assad warned that any military strike against his coun...

The United Nations high commissioner for refugees says neighboring countries are not receiving nearly enough help to handle the influx.     

President Obama says the US will help the Syrian opposition after military strikes intended to "degrade Assad's capabilities".

Hackers find ways to hijack car computers and take control; auto industry fights back     

Eleven supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi are been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of attacking the army.

The first carriage of a train with 150 passengers onboard was suspended over a giant hole for 12 minutes, the Rail Accident Investigation Board says.

As the Arab League convened in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the Syrian crisis, several blocks away some 200 demonstrators assembled to denounce possible U.S. military action against Damascus

WASHINGTON -- The White House pressed aggressively on Monday for congressional approval of an attack on Syria, as President Obama got tentative support from Senator John McCain, one of his most hawkish Republican critics...

Developers are investigating reports of the damaging glare, and nearby car parking spaces have been suspended, say reports.

Jiang "suspected of serious discipline violations", state media said in shorthand commonly used to describe corruption.

Urgent action is needed at Thursday's G20 summit in St Petersburg to fix a tax system that allows firms to "rip off" poor African nations, Oxfam has warned.

A woman from Plymouth who developed a Chinese-sounding accent after being rushed to hospital with a migraine says she has accepted that her local accent may never return.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A federal judge on Tuesday lifted a blanket order that had stopped hundreds of Rhode Island foreclosures from going forward and had sent the cases first to mediation.     

MANCHESTER, Vt. (AP) -- A famous Vermont trout stream is expected to see improvements after a dam is removed, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Tuesday.     

Malala Yousafzai, the young girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, opened a library today in Birmingham, England. She says that "Pens and books are the weapons that defeat t...

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's interim president has defended the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, saying he failed to deliver on campaign promises and was forced out by the will of people who elected him and not by...

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The family of World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg will ask President Barack Obama for help in their quest to find out what happened to the Swedish diplomat who vanished after being arrested by Soviet for...

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is suing to try to block a law that would make it easier to sue the police department over stop-and-frisks or other actions people claim are discriminatory.     

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former Blackwater Worldwide security contractor charged after a deadly shooting in a Baghdad public square is asking a judge to rule soon on whether he will remain part of the case.