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Kim Jong-un didn't just stop at killing his own uncle Jang Song-thaek, according to South Korea's Yonhap: he had Jang's entire family executed, too. All of them, including the children.     

A grand jury indicted Randall Kerrick, a white officer, on voluntary manslaughter charges for firing 10 shots into a young black man who had driven off the road and was apparently looking for help.     

American intelligence agencies are concerned that they could lose their air bases used for drone strikes if a final security deal cannot be struck with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai.     

Security officials say massive attack by extremists using explosives in north Nigeria kills 52     

Hundreds of civilians have reportedly fled to avoid being caught in fighting against splinter rebel group in south.

Government says women and children free to leave Syrian city's besieged centre, in first sign of Geneva talks' progress.

Korean women seek reparations, apology for their use as sex slaves by Japan's WWII-era military. Paula Hancocks reports.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea on Monday proposed that the rival Koreas restart arranging reunions next month for families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.     

Politician shot in Bangkok suburb on a day government's opponents tried to disrupt advance voting for general election.

Japan's President Shinzo Abe defends dolphin fishing as a "deeply rooted" cultural practice that should be respected.

A little more than a year ago, physicist Nabil Lawandy was stranded at the Charlotte, N.C., airport, listening to endless news stories about sequestration and the threat of a government shutdown, when scientific inspirat...

Don’t expect me to police everything that is said by everybody," Fox News host Greta van Susteren writes in a recent blog post, "but I will from time to time speak up."     

India’s independence day, Cambodian protests, a mass wedding, an overnight marathon, a colorful 5k run and more. 

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Suspected Islamic extremists used explosives and heavy guns to attack a village and worshippers during a Christian church service in Nigeria's northeast, killing at least 99 people and razing h...

Bringing farmers together with workers and human rights activists, making all the connections and explaining that what is at stake in any trade agreement is more than just money: It is the quality of the food we eat, the...

BOSTON (AP) -- Police say a Massachusetts teen admitted killing the 24-year-old math teacher whose body was found in the woods near the school in October.     

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- No longer about bold ambitions, this year's State of the Union address will focus more on what's actually achievable.     

As Gov. Chris Christie continues to fend off accusations of corruption in New Jersey, another Republican with possible designs on the White House, Marco Rubio, spent last week 7,000 miles away from the controversy, burni...

Thanks to digital media, future generations will probably have no trouble hearing Arnold Schwarzenegger say "I'll be back" or James Earl Jones, as Darth Vader, telling Luke that he's his father.

    

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Avalanches have cut off an Alaska city, and the only highway in could be closed for at least a week, if not "much longer," state Transportation Department officials said Monday.