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Miss America Nina Davuluri opens up about the cultural clash she experienced when she introduce her boyfriend to her traditional parents.

Police say a man has blown himself up near a hotel in Sousse while a would-be bomber has been captured in Monastir.

Rrrrrchaelogists have recovered five big six pounders from t' wreck o' t' famed scurvy dog Blackbeard's ship off t' coast o' North Carolina.

Istanbul's new transcontinental train tunnel under the Bosphorus Strait had a bumpy first day of operation, a day after Turkey's Prime Minister called it a "project for whole humanity" at an inaugural ceremony.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A 16-year-old Nevada boy accused of killing his mother and brother before disappearing for several days is expected to plead not guilty.     

Report urges concussion culture change for young athletes, says too little known about risks     

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Officials have evacuated about 4,500 people in western Mexico after streams of gasoline leaked from a state-owned pipeline that was apparently drilled open by fuel thieves.     

A 36-year-old New Bedford man was charged this morning in the Oct. 14 slaying in Fairhaven of 69-year-old Joyce Howland, a retired elementary school teacher, prosecutors said.     

A Connecticut couple allegedly punished a 9-year-old girl in their care with an electric shock collar designed to discipline dogs, police said.

UN commission probing possible grave North Korea rights abuses holding 2-day public hearing     

Six people, including two children and the suspected shooter, were found dead in Greenwood County, South Carolina, an official said Tuesday night.

Israel released 26 Palestinian prisoners early Wednesday, part of an agreement that fueled new peace talks.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of demonstrators marched Tuesday to protest the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy by a Northern California sheriff's deputy in an encounter that sparked community outrage and an FBI ...

EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- The court battle between two girls and their Pennsylvania school over "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets could be settled by the U.S. Supreme Court.     

Members of House foreign affairs committee say freezing military aid could have long-term strategic consequences.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's highest court on Wednesday denied worker's compensation to a bureaucrat who was injured while having sex in her hotel room on a business trip in a final decision reversing lower co...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) -- Uruguay's president says he plans to remove his country's nearly 1,000 peacekeeping troops from Haiti.     

Announcement of construction in occupied East Jerusalem comes after release of Palestinian prisoners.

Five members of Congress present to hear evidence of drone strike which injured children and killed their grandmother.

NEW YORK -- Hans Ephraimson-Abt, who became an internationally known advocate for families of air-crash victims after the death of his daughter on Korean Air Lines Flight 007, shot down by Soviet fighter planes in 1983, ...

BOSTON (AP) -- When President Barack Obama lands in Boston to talk about the federal health insurance overhaul Wednesday, he'll be hoping to draw parallels with Massachusetts' landmark 2006 health law.     

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Three decades after being sentenced to death for the fatal stabbing of a fellow inmate, Reggie Griffin is officially a free man after a Missouri judge dismissed a murder charge against him.   �...