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From fashion's trenches, camouflage emerging as a timeless trend     

Boston bomber asks for end to isolation

At least 62 dead in grounding of migrant boat off Sicilian isle, hundreds unaccounted for     

Workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant discover new leaks of toxic liquid believed to be seeping into the ocean.

At least 28 people, including 13 children, killed after lorry slams into two minivans in northeastern Assam state.

TOKYO (AP) -- U.S. and Japanese officials said Thursday they will position a second early-warning radar in Japan within the next year and deploy new long-range surveillance drones to help monitor disputed islands in the ...

Activists stumbled into Moscow's show of arctic force

The head of the Colombian Agency for Reintegration tells the BBC that Colombia is ready to receive tens of thousands of demobilised rebels.

Pakistani official says suicide bombing kills 15 people in country's northwest     

As part of an ongoing siege against the rebel-held town of Moadhamiya, Syrian regime forces are reportedly cutting off access to food for the 12,000 people living there.      

(Reuters) - BP Plc won a legal reprieve in its effort to force the administrator of a settlement related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill to tighten standards in assessing claims, potentially sparing the oil company ...

House Speaker John Boehner reveals White House talks were polite but says President Obama refuses to negotiate over budget issues.

Now we know why Lavabit founder Ladar Levison decided to shut down his secure email service, used by Edward Snowden.      

There are moments when different branches of government cannot reach agreement. Shutdowns are an expression of those differences

Have a mountain you need to move?

Money might not grow on trees, but what it it fell from the sky?

The country's ruling Congress party is scrambling to repair a rift between party vice president Rahul Gandhi and PM Manmohan Singh

Indonesia's Constitutional Court judge arrested in country's latest high-profile graft scandal     

A contract to build the UK's first nuclear plant in a generation is "within weeks" of completion, Energy Minister Michael Fallon tells the Financial Times.

New leak to sea from Japan nuke plant as radioactive water overflowed from tank with no gauge     

A jury Wednesday convicted a Minnesota man in the slaying of his wife, whose body was found in the Mississippi River months after she disappeared, though jurors decided he did not intend to kill her.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian lawmakers have approved legal amendments that opponents fear could be abused by authorities to hold people without trial for years and negate the prime minister's pledge to protec...