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Forty-eight years after the original "Sound Of Music" hit the big screen, Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moyer are getting ready to step into some pretty epic shoes: Maria and Captain von Trapp's. As longtime "Sound Of Mus...

The secret double life of a gay neo-Nazi

Around one million workers in Greece are going unpaid - some for almost two years.

No buyer is found for the retail chain leaving administrators to plan its demise, according to Sky sources.

Amnesty International releases new images of a North Korean prison camp. CNN's Paula Hancocks explains.

A Northern California hospital is home to a rare set of identical triplets, who were conceived without the help of fertility drugs. 

Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke appeals to dissenting Brazilians to get behind next summer's World Cup.

Ten pilot whales have died and at least 41 others remain stranded in the Florida Everglades after appearing in the area's shallow waters earlier this week.     

MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian court sentenced 14 Rohingya asylum seekers from Myanmar to nine months in jail for their role in a deadly brawl at an detention center that left eight Buddhist fishermen from their ...

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A yellow jumpsuit worn by martial arts legend Bruce Lee in one of his final fight scenes goes on sale in Hong Kong on Thursday.

Mexican troops guard recovered cobalt as experts discuss how to safely contain it again     

CAIRO (AP) -- Popular Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef said Wednesday that he'll take the military and the government at their word that they were not behind the decision to take his weekly television program off the air...

It was 11 March 2011, and I remember standing in the newsroom that Friday afternoon glued to the television watching the horrific images coming out of Japan.

A security official describes the brutal treatment of prisoners, as satellite images show one camp alone is as big as Manchester.

Interviews and wiretaps suggested that Mayor Rob Ford regularly used drugs, the Toronto police wrote, and that dealers discussed blackmailing him.     

The general, who led the ouster of Egypt's President and installed an interim government, beat Turkey's Prime Minister and pop star Miley Cyrus

Washington woman who monitors police scanner unknowingly tweeted about death of husband     

The Obama administration faced renewed criticism Thursday for entering nuclear talks with Iran without first demanding the release of U.S. citizens, following reports that imprisoned pastor Saeed Abedini is facing threat...

Duncan Kennedy looks at the car tax disc and its history after the Chancellor announced that they are to go electronic and vanish from car windscreens

One of Edinburgh's new trams completes the first run along the city's most famous shopping street in a night time test.

NGOs criticise Islamist-led government for trying to revise a long-awaited bill aiming to fight violence against women.