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There aren't too many women in the world like Emily Riedel - an opera singer by passion, a dancing-with-death female dredger by trade.

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan has drastically scaled back its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, complicating efforts to forge a global climate change pact.     

Radical anti-government fighters in Syria mistakenly beheaded a wounded fellow rebel soldier after assuming he was a supporter of President Bashar al-Assad, according to an online statement from the radical fighters' gro...

A growing number of western citizens are flocking to Syria to fight alongside extremist groups

Caroline Kennedy to arrive in Tokyo on Friday to take up position as US ambassador     

Australian prosecutors drop manslaughter charges against American surgeon who admits fraud     

Six tonnes of ivory, representing the killing of 2,000 adult elephants, has been destroyed in a drive against the illegal trade.

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North Korea denies "foreign media reports" it is sending helicopter pilots and advisers to help Syrian government.

The effort by corporate CEOs to dominate the global economy and global government is reaching the end-game stage. Corporate CEOs view government and democracy as their gravest threats and are constantly seeking to discre...

Google ad an unlikely hit in both India, Pakistan by referring to traumatic 1947 partition     

Donations have come from businesses and residents in 22 states.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Police have arrested two suspects in connection with a fatal shooting in Springfield last weekend and are searching for a third.     

Eric H. Holder Jr., the U.S. attorney general, says groups of traders from several major banks may have influenced currency benchmarks to benefit their employers.     

President Obama will nominate Dr. Vivek Murthy of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital as surgeon general of the United States, the White House announced Thursday night.     

The United States government's hunger for information on Google users is continuing to rise. The tech company had more requests for user information in the first half of this year from the United States than any period b...

Bolivian police have seized a massive stash of cocaine diluted inside hundreds of wine bottles, state media reported Thursday.

Woohoo! The Simpsons Will Be on Cable and Streaming

His new weekly comedy series will air next year

Gambia is the second African state to announce a change in its diplomatic relationship with China this week.

US states struggle in secret to find drugs for executions

The terrorists who attacked the Benghazi consulate last year knew the location of the safe room where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his security team sought shelter, according to a congressman who spoke for 90 minutes wit...