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Controversial commentator having second thoughts?

World's largest school-based deworming programme in Bihar - Those children who were left out can receive their dose on 28th January -

A group of UK terror suspects are now free of all restrictions on their movements after controversial anti-terror powers expired.

Iran, the economy and a "touchy-feely" Davos

A woman accused of fatally stabbing a teacher in Orland Park told relatives she acted in self-defense after her friend was threatened, an uncle said.     

Jabhat al-Nusra in Lebanon says "all bastions" of Hezbollah are legitimate attack sites and tells Sunnis to stay away.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho says it was a "hard decision" to let Juan Mata join Premier League rivals Manchester United.

Thai protesters force closure of polling stations as advance voting begins for February ballot     

The three-year anniversary of Egypt's political uprising was marked this weekend with government-backed rallies and deadly anti-government protests, as the Obama administration vowed continued support toward stabilizing ...

A Penn State student was busted with a "weapon of mass destruction" after cops showed up at his home expecting to find marijuana plants, according to police. The Russian-born college...

With the tournament just months away, campaigners for better investment in public services take their protest to the streets.

Anti-corruption campaigner Xu Zhiyong has been sentenced to four years in jail in China for disrupting public order.

Shark off western Australia becomes 1st killed under policy aimed at curbing fatal attacks     

A suicide bomber blows himself up near a bus carrying soldiers in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least four people, official say.

During 2013's holiday "season of giving," I watched as our nation's leaders tried to turn the United ("Give me your tired, your poor,") States into something out of a Dickens novel. How would their gifts of fiscal respon...

The balance of power frequently is changed as history shows. It begins within a state. Only those are bestowed with predominance who pursue norms and values in the personnel assertions.

The Women's Aid ambassador will visit 40 football clubs across the country during her week-long ordeal.

Likely, the most thoughtful, radical article on the Second Amendment you'll ever read. I raise the question why, if the right wing will never invoke it against pretty plain instances of tyranny--and moreover, would side ...

Edward Snowden disavowed participation in any future publications of the documents he withdrew from the NSA databanks, saying in the same interview that he no longer possesses any NSA data. The information has been distr...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Employers would be prohibited from demanding access to a worker's social media accounts under legislation pending in Rhode Island General Assembly.     

Anti-government protesters in Ukraine

President Obama is expected in his annual address Tuesday to detail what he calls "practical" proposals to advance the country in 2014, including ones to improve economic opportunities for every American and to fix the n...