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Courtney Stodden--staying true to her style--went braless yet again. Plus awful costume errors.

Fee-crazed but laughing all the way to the bank

The U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria gave a grim prognosis for the country's future

SYDNEY (AP) -- Australia's ambassador met with Indonesian government officials who summoned him Friday following reports the Australian embassy in Jakarta is a hub for Washington's secret electronic data collection progr...

TORONTO (AP) -- Calls for the resignation of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford intensified after police said they had obtained a video that appears to show him smoking a crack pipe, discovered in a massive surveillance operation of...

BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's parliament on Friday moved another step closer to granting amnesty to people involved in the political conflict that has marred the country for almost a decade, prompting thousands to protest i...

A US court blocks legally ordered changes to New York City's stop-and-frisk programme and takes the unusual step of removing a judge from the case.

President Hollande tells clubs he has no intention of stepping back from 75 percent tax on high income earners.

The US has left Iraq broken and regional strong men emboldened

Officials pursuing revisions to security clearance system; issue arose in Navy Yard shooting     

Today in show business news: Lifetime cancels Jennifer Love Hewitt's massage parlor show, The Sound of Music finds its kids, and a look at Tilda Swinton as a vampire.     

NYC special-ed parents see worst fears realized in 4-week-old case of missing autistic boy     

Happy Friday! Here's your Break Time, a round-up of the can't-miss items from around the web: 

He was charged Thursday with 25 counts of dealing in child pornography.

Aki Ra now rids the killing fields of their deadly mines

Like a signature on a work of art, a set of balloons that read "BANKSY!" tied to the side of a warehouse visible from the Long Island Expressway in Queens could be the final piece of the famously anonymous British graffi...

BANGKOK (AP) -- The flight data recorder from a Lao Airlines plane that crashed last month has been recovered from the Mekong River and the cockpit voice recorder has been located, officials said Friday.     

It was a chilling series of horrors: four mass killings involving four different families, in four states over four bloody days, leaving 14 adults and seven children dead.     

A 20% tax could reduce demand and fight obesity and tooth decay, but some researchers claim taxing food is politically unworkable.

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated restrictions on abortion providers in Texas, siding with Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott who had asked for an emergency ruling while a lower court ruling...

The US Secretary of State says the NSA sometimes operated on "automatic pilot", rather than under full control of the government.

Boston Food Pantries Prepare For Increased Demand