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Video released by NBC News shows the horrifying collision between two planes carrying skydivers over northwest Wisconsin on Saturday. Cameras mounted on the skydivers' helmets give a first-person view of the collision an...

Steve Harrigan reports from Miami, Florida

BEIJING (AP) -- Volunteers are rushing to rescue hundreds of cats confiscated from a dealer and released into a mountainous area in eastern China, an animal welfare activist said Tuesday.     

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo claims victory over M23 rebels in the east of the country after 20 months of conflict.

Authorities are searching for a gunman who opened fired at a sprawling mall in New Jersey Monday night shortly before closing time, city officials said.     

Papers highlight suspect's escape in a burka

TRI NGUYEN ISLAND, Vietnam (AP) -- Nguyen Thi Yen rolls up the sleeves of her white lab coat and delicately slips her arms into a box covered by a sheath of mesh netting. Immediately, the feeding frenzy begins.     

SEOUL, South Korea -- An unspecified number of North Korean sailors were killed when their submarine chaser sank last month, according to North and South Korean news media.     

Some 1,500 secret files, dating back to the years of military rule in Argentina, have been discovered in Buenos Aires.

The Obama administration is considering reining in many N.S.A. practices overseas, but for now, officials have concluded that there is no workable alternative to the collection of huge quantities of "metadata."     

The Fire Department official who on Sunday oversaw the rescue of Asher Vongtau, 19, said he could not recall a situation quite like it in his 33-year career.     

Rocket carrying unmanned probe to lift off from east coast for 780-million-km journey to study Martian atmosphere.

People living on a Denbighshire housing estate where devastating flooding affected 122 homes last year claim flawed planning led to the problem.

Two French journalists were killed after being abducted in Kidal, Northern Mali.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal investigators probing what motivated a gunman to shoot security checkpoint workers at Los Angeles International airport are looking for connections to a long-circulated conspiracy theory that ...

(Reuters) - As many as 17 million low- to moderate-income Americans should be eligible for tax credits to buy private health insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law in 2014, according to a report by the K...

AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio man wrote an apologetic note before taking a taxi to visit his hospitalized wife, shooting her in the head as she lay in bed and then trying to kill himself before authorities took his gun, a ...

Michelle Knight tells a talk show she was tied up and gagged while being held captive by Ariel Castro in his Cleveland home.

CNN's Kristie Lu Stout talks with Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt about the NSA's tapping of Google's internal systems.

A letter purportedly by Edward Snowden says that the NSA and Britain conduct the most surveillance without oversight.

Lakhdar Brahimi's latest mission -- starting Syria peace talks -- has proved to be among the most stubborn of the many conflicts he has mediated on behalf of the United Nations.     

The animal charity reveals shocking new figures as it launches a new campaign aiming to highlight the work of its inspectors.