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Rural life on sprawling reservations has complicated efforts to track down tens of thousands of Indians who are eligible for federal payments.     

To boldly go where no bikini has gone before...

Gun battle erupts in village located between Fallujah and Ramadi, two cities besieged by troops and Sunni Arab tribes.

N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) -- Michel Djotodia, the rebel leader who seized control of Central African Republic only to see the desperately poor country tumble toward anarchy and sectarian bloodshed, agreed to resign Friday alo...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel on Friday announced plans to build 1,400 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territory the Palestinians claim for their future state.     

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Prosecutors have accused a Dutch man of abusing around 400 boys and girls aged 12-14 he met in online chat rooms, coercing them into committing sexual acts via webcam. Victims have so far been identifie...

The wreck will be towed away from the Mediterranean holiday island of Giglio by the summer and eventually broken up for scrap.

The US describes new Chinese rules on fishing access to disputed areas of the South China Sea as "provocative and potentially dangerous".

West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has declared a state of emergency for five counties because of a chemical spill into the Elk River in Charleston.

PARACUARO, Mexico (AP) -- Residents of a town in western Mexico set fire to at least three trailer trucks Thursday to protest the arrival of more than 100 vigilantes to their community.     

Armed group claims responsibility for killing police officer Chaudhry Aslam, whose home was destroyed by a bomb in 2011.

Devyani Khobragade granted diplomatic protection and asked to leave, meaning she will not face charges relating to maid.

Officials insisted that no nonlethal supplies would be given directly to Syria's Islamist groups, but questions remained over how to keep it from ending up in the wrong hands.     

American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Islamic extremist groups were trying to identify, recruit and train Westerners to carry out attacks when they returned home.     

A smaller trade deficit, increased consumer spending and a surging stock market contributed to a revised outlook for United States growth.     

Golden Globes Predictions: Look Into Our Crystal Ball

Parts of North America have been gripped by record freezing temperatures in recent days, but its a very different story in Australia, where temperatures have soared as high as 50C.

Indonesians head for Syrian jihad, alarming authorities who saw Afghan veterans sow terror     

To cut costs and to boost profits, The History Channel is presenting programming that has nothing to do with history. Sometimes, it even presents pseudoscience. That is tragic.

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese authorities are holding China's largest oil refiner and its top management responsible for a November pipeline explosion that killed 62 people and injured scores of others in the eastern port city...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- A historian says he and colleagues are preparing a tourist route leading through old Jewish towns along Poland's border with Belarus and Ukraine.     

Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, whose arrest in the US sparked protests from Delhi, has left for India, officials say.