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Thousands of children are likely to have been separated from their families as a result of the latest violence in South Sudan, an aid agency warns.

Companies that pay salaries of over one million euros will have to pay a 75 percent payroll tax for the next two years.     

Austria has produced many of the world's greatest skiers, and another made her mark on the history books in front of her home crowd on Sunday.

Police in the northwest region of Xinjiang killed eight people after what they are calling a "terrorist attack".

MOSCOW (AP) -- An explosion on a trolleybus in the city of Volgograd left 10 people dead Monday, a day after a suicide bombing that killed at least 17 at the city's main railway.     

Two Massachusetts women helped resuscitate a six-month old baby who had stopped breathing on board a flight to Puerto Rico earlier this month, and helped keep the baby breathing for two tense hours until the plane was ab...

BEIJING (AP) -- Authorities in western China say that police under attack from "terrorists" fatally shot eight of them and captured a ninth.     

A top Chinese political adviser, who was once an aide to ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang, is being investigated for corruption, the government says.

China bans officials from smoking in public to set example in country where lighting up common     

Talks chairman, US diplomat Richard Haass, has set a deadline of today for agreement on flags, parades and the legacy of the past.

Amid new surge in decade-old conflict, UN secretary-general urges Sudanese government to bring killers to justice.

A 32-year-old man is arrested after the bodies of a mother and her young son were discovered in a house in Midlothian at the weekend.

As Greece prepares to take over the rotating presidency of the European Union the country faces criticism for its waste management

NEW YORK (AP) -- A new report says billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent $650 million of his own fortune on New York City over the course of three terms in office.     

At least 10 people have been killed in an explosion on an electric bus in the Russian city of Volgograd, according to reports.

The lone suspect in a weeklong bank robbery spree that included the killing of a police officer in Mississippi was arrested in 2010 after making online threats against President Barack Obama.

The Border Patrol said Saturday that the man, a U.S. citizen, was stopped at a checkpoint on Interstate 8, near the Mexican border.

WASHINGTON

Professoer Brian Glyn Williams discusses both the latest on the Benghazi attack in 2012 and the suicide bombing in Russia.

His goose could be cooked

Authorities urged residents to evacuate a small North Dakota town Monday night after a mile-long train carrying crude oil derailed outside of town, shaking residents with a series of explosions that sent flames and black...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) -- The University of Rhode Island has received a nearly $652,000 grant for the purchase of high-tech equipment for scientists and students.