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Metra says it can't meet 2015 deadlineThe deadly commuter train crash in New York reinforces the urgency for Metra and other commuter railroads across the country to install a federally mandated safety system designed to...

A judge's ruling that the calls cannot be kept secret is a double blow as the town nears the anniversary of the school shooting.

The sex scene that was shown before a screening of Frozen in Florida was probably from Dallas Buyers Club, but the (likely) false reports that it was a trailer for Nymphomaniac is only good for Lars von Trier's cra...

Pentagon halts ground shipments of equipment out of Afghanistan via Pakistan, citing risks posed to truck drivers.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he has proof that Monday's massive power cuts were caused by "right-wing" saboteurs.

BEIJING (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Beijing for meetings with top Chinese leaders amid an international spat over China's new air defense zone.     

Former prez opens up on marijuana use

Three stadiums being built for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil will not be ready for the deadline of the end of the year, according to Fifa.

Mykola Azarov says demonstrations bear signs of a coup d'etat and that riot police will use force again if they continue.

The driver of a New York commuter train that derailed on Sunday, killing four, "basically nodded" moments before the crash, a union official says.

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The threatening calls reportedly came one after the other to Mexico's main Catholic seminary.

Police brutality in Egypt 'continuing unchecked'

The government is to make major changes to the way it subsidises renewable energy with more emphasis on offshore wind power, the BBC has learned.

After Charles Saatchi appeared in court on Friday, the TV chef will answer questions about two sisters accused of fraud.

Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egypt's "poet of the people" whose biting political verses inspired rebellion and taunted successive regimes for decades, died Tuesday in Cairo at age 84.

President Obama's Uncle Granted Legal Residency Application     

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemalan authorities say they have detained 21 people who allegedly laundered money for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.     

Britain's most senior female officer defends the Armed Forces policy of preventing women from fighting on the front line.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Authorities have finished their second day of searching for a small plane and five passengers that disappeared two days ago in the mountains of central Idaho.     

The Government's top legal adviser says guidance for social media users will help "facilitate commentary in a lawful way".

A man authorities long suspected of a 1989 Dorchester homicide admitted to the killing in court Tuesday, exactly one year after a jury failed to convict him of murder for the crime.