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The visit by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the Yasukuni Shrine revived a practice that has long strained relations between Japan and its Asian neighbors.     

The country's army continues to battle with rebel forces after a failed coup attempt.

One Florida mother was in for a massive surprise when she gave birth to her third child that nearly broke a record.

Calls for independent investigation into savage gang attack on opposition activist and reporter Tanya Chornovil in Kiev.

MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian cargo plane has crashed into a military base, killing all nine crew members.     

BEIJING (AP) -- China's leaders bowed three times before a statue of Mao Zedong on the 120th anniversary of his birth Thursday in carefully controlled celebrations that also sought to uphold the market-style reforms that...

A corruption scandal threatens the Turkish prime minister and the Egyptian government labeled the Muslim Brotherhood, its biggest opposition group, a terrorist organization.       

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The United Nations mission in South Sudan has denied a report of a mass grave that was issued by the office of a U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights. The Berlin office of Navi Pillay had said on Tue...

Iran's top leaders wished Christians, including Pope Francis, a merry Christmas.     

Garment workers join opposition protests in Cambodia, adding pressure on government     

After hundreds of thousands spent Christmas without electricity, carbon monoxide from gasoline-powered generators was blamed for deaths in the Northeast and Midwest.     

A two-alarm fire in Somerville severely damaged a multiple-unit building today, fire officials said.     

Millions of Americans are spreading holiday cheer this week, but that goodwill toward men doesn't extend to Congress, new poll numbers show.

From 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday, Delta kind of accidentally sold a bunch of tickets on the cheap.     

MOSCOW -- A Russian probe into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has found that his death wasn’t caused by radiation -- a finding that comes after a French...

Israel responds to Gaza rocket attacks with airstrikes on weapons sites     

Obama signs budget deal easing spending cuts, defense bill addressing sexual assault     

HONOLULU (AP) -- President Barack Obama has signed into law a comprehensive defense bill that cracks down on sexual assault in the military.     

Is it WAY too early to talk about the 2016 presidential primaries? Yes. Are we going to do it anyway? Yes!

Conn. authorities to release police documents on Newtown school shooting investigation     

Family of Norman Rockwell says new book on illustrator has inaccuracies, 'phantom theories'     

NFL players still hiding, playing with concussions despite long-term dangers to their health