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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     

Scientists say they have found the gene which performs memory extinction, offering hope to sufferers of post-traumatic stress.

The show's title is appropriate

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

A major blaze at six factory units in the Rhondda, which was tackled by 70 firefighters, is extinguished says the fire service.

All the stars who had an epic evening at television's biggest night

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

Lt. j.g. Kyle Salling stood on the bow of a 24-foot boat in Florida Bay, holding what looked like a large model airplane. With the propellers gently whirling, and the small red and green aviation lights on, Sims launched...

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     

The number of over-70s who hold a UK driving licence has exceeded four million for the first time, the RAC Foundation says.

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

Though the opening number was frustratingly dance-less, the Emmys obliged with a random Neil Patrick Harris dance number in the middle of the show featuring a disco beat and a shimmying Sarah Silverman.      

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...

The Syrian opposition accused the Assad government of transferring chemical weapons to the Shia group to escape inspection.

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.