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The Dhaka garment factory collapse of April 24 claimed the lives of 1,129 people, but rectifying atrocious working practices amid an international uproar is proving a tall order

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan on Thursday hanged a 73-year-old man convicted of murder and robbery, the country's sixth execution of the year.     

An 18-year-old man fell four stories through a skylight on the roof of an MIT fraternity house on Wednesday night near Kenmore Square, officials said.     

Palace: Prince William ends long stint as helicopter pilot, leaves military service     

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A member of al-Shabab says American jihadist Omar Hammami was killed in an ambush in Somalia's southern Bay region.     

US stance over possible strike on Syria analysed

Was Into the Wild's Chris McCandless unlucky or just terribly unprepared? The book's author, Jon Krakauer, now claims to have finally found the solution, which suggests that faulty science may have been to blame.   �...

For the first time in its eight year history, the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" list is composed entirely of female authors.     

Syria's president says it wasn't U.S. intimidation that led him to agree -- it was old-fashioned Russian friendship

Jeter Back on Bench With Season-Ending Ankle Injury

Prince William Gives Up Military Gig to Save Animals

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Maine's attorney general says an arbitration panel has blocked an effort by tobacco companies to reclaim about $50 million owed to the state under a 1998 settlement.     

Syria's President Assad appears on Russian TV to confirm chemical arms will be placed under international control, as key talks loom in Geneva.

JK Rowling is to make her screenwriting debut in a new Harry Potter-themed film series, Warner Bros announces.

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan lodged a protest Thursday against a French newspaper cartoon depicting sumo wrestlers with extra limbs fighting in front of the country's crippled nuclear power plant and linking it to Tokyo's success...

By Bahar Gholipour, Staff Writer Published: 09/11/2013 05:12 PM EDT on LiveScience Medical experts in the United States remain divided in their opinion of whether physician-assisted suicide should be legal, a new poll su...

The blobfish, a threatened gelatinous deep-sea fish, wins a public vote as ugliest animal.

Satellite images of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility have again raised questions about whether the country has restarted its plutonium production reactor -- regarded by western experts as a key component in the de...

Writing in the New York Times, Russian President Vladimir Putin warns of a "wave of terrorism" if Syria is attacked.

Schools and markets closed in Kathmandu as opposition enforces one-day strike demanding cancellation of November polls.

Chicago firefighters are battling a four-alarm warehouse fire at 3710 S. California Ave in the Brighton Park neighborhood.     

According to interviews and court documents discovered by The Washington Post on Wednesday, a Washington DC businessman allegedly spent more than half a million dollars on canvassing efforts for Hillary Clinton in 200...