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A Montana judge is defending his decision to sentence a former teacher to 31 days in jail for raping a 14-year-old student.

A strategic suburb of Damascus changes hands at great cost. CNN's Fred Pleitgen is there.

The Thai government has negotiated a truce with protesters in Bangkok's streets for several days to honor the birthday of the King, a top security official says.

A train which crashed in New York City on Sunday was going 82mph (132 km/h) in a 30mph zone when it ran off the rails, investigators have revealed.

All along the highway that leads into this city in West Texas, the rows of black pump jacks seem endless, bobbing up and down as they pull crude oil from beneath the parched scrub desert.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Four Honduran computer programmers watching their country's debate over the vote count in the hotly contested presidential race decided to check the results themselves, using the power of th...

India's spacecraft to Mars crosses Moon's orbit on its way to the red planet, space authorities say.

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Female soldiers at Fort Hood testified Monday that they were recruited for a prostitution ring set up by a sergeant involved in the sexual assault and harassment program at the Central Texas post...

After more than half a century, a mystery of military history has finally been resolved. Researchers at the University of Hawaii and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have discovered a missing Wo...

The UN's human rights chief has said an inquiry has produced evidence that war crimes were authorised in Syria at the "highest level", including by President Bashar al-Assad.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Police say they have arrested the alleged Sydney ringleader of a criminal network that sends Australians to fight in Syria.     

Class action lawsuit against genetic test maker 23andMe alleges misleading advertising     

Website uses sales data to see who bought larger-size condoms

After Kiev's refusal to sign an accord with the European Union, Secretary of State John Kerry will go to Moldova, a small country that has resisted pressure from Moscow.     

Protesters calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have reached a truce with Thai police.

More than 12 years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, federal agencies continue to keep lists on hand containing names of individuals of interest: people who often end up un-cleared to enter or exit the U...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case involving a New York law requiring online retailers to collect state taxes on their goods, even if they have no physical presence in the state.     

Security forces step aside to let protesters into PM's office and police headquarters in an effort to avoid clashes.

For the first time in the country's history, a man in Iceland was shot and killed by police fire.     

An 11-year-old girl from Portland, Oregon has been told that she can't sell mistletoe to help defray the cost of braces, but she can beg for the money on the city's streets. 

NEW YORK -- The Metro-North Railroad train that derailed on Sunday, killing four people and injuring dozens more, was traveling at roughly 82 mph just before it veered off the tracks, federal investigators said on Monday...

(Reuters) - In early 1953, Merrill Newman and Allen Hedges were among a small group of U.S. servicemen hunkered down on a tiny, frequently shelled island off the west coast of North Korea.