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World's largest coal port plans worry UNESCO

Fifty-member committee amending document expects to finish its work by November, could overhaul electoral system.

Two men in Thailand are in trouble with the law thanks to an Instagram photo posted by pop star Rihanna during her recent visit to the holiday island of Phuket.

NYPD investigating assault of Sikh man by group of young men who made anti-Muslim statements     

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Staff members struggle to keep drugs from creative, ingenious patients desperate for them.

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Chinese tycoon plans $8B Hollywood-style film studio in bid to dominate surging movie market     

US Navy seeks 2 missing airmen after helicopter crash in Red Sea; 3 rescued     

The standoff between the Kenyan army and militants entered its third day early Monday morning. On Saturday, Somali al-Shabab extremists opened fire and threw grenades on a mall in Nairobi, killing 68 people and injured a...

Cambodia's opposition boycotts opening of parliament to protest alleged electoral fraud     

A hiker found the body of a man amid debris from flooding that brought widespread damage to the state this month, authorities said Sunday as areas of the storm-weary region faced more thunderstorms.

Tiny snake aboard Qantas airliner grounds 370 Tokyo-bound passengers in Sydney overnight     

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- India says frustration is building among U.N. member states over paralysis in the Security Council and its inability to respond to international crises.     

Former FBI bomb technician Donald Sachtleben, 55, who was arrested last year for distributing child pornography, has been identified as the source for the Associated Press story about a foiled Al Qaeda terrorist plot tha...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A second archbishop is to be named in the Roman Catholic Church's archdiocese in Newark, N.J., where the archbishop is nearing retirement age and has been under fire for his handling of the case of a...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former FBI explosives expert will plead guilty to revealing secret information for an Associated Press story about a U.S. intelligence operation in Yemen in 2012.     

The retired F.B.I. agent agreed to serve 43 months in prison for leaking classified details to The A.P. about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen, the Justice Department said.     

The Affordable Care Act will prove to be enormously popular with the American public once it's fully implemented -- which is exactly why the Republicans are so intent on bulldozing it before then. If they were sincere ab...

The group that runs the Breakers, the Vanderbilt "cottage" in Newport, R.I., wants to build a visitors center on the grounds, a proposal that has provoked outrage from neighbors.     

In dealing with cases on Internet censorship, music piracy, and digital GPS tracking, the Supreme Court needs a good understanding of how the Internet functions. So it's with a fair amount of worry to read yet another...

Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed tells Al Jazeera deadly mall siege is work of al-Qaeda, not al-Shabab.