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As much as the Panama financial crisis looks like it is, finally, ending, the hangover of the conflict is far from cured. The Autoridad del Canal de Panamá (Panama Canal Authority, or ACP) announced on Thursday that the...

Good news for internet pornography viewers (basically, everybody on the internet): a new study has deemed that porn addiction, as an illness, is essentially nonexistent.     

One southbound lane of the Tobin Bridge is closed this morning as authorities investigate a death from the bridge, officials said.     

It's an argument that's persisted for nearly four centuries: Where does the Amazon River begin?

A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional - the first such decision in a southern US state.

Oscar Pistorius says he mourns for girlfriend on 1st anniversary of day he killed her     

A UN team is to visit the area in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 70 people are believed to have been killed recently.

Booms from Java's Mount Kelud could be heard 130km away, as 200,000 people from 36 villages are asked to leave the area.

BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday appealed for China's help in bringing a belligerent North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks but faced an uncertain response as the request was accompanie...

A storm unleashes a second wave of snowfall on the US north-east, after it cut power to half a million people and left 7,500 flights cancelled.

BANGKOK (AP) -- Hundreds of riot police moved through parts of the Thai capital on Friday to retake areas occupied by anti-government protesters during a three-month push to unseat Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.  �...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- Thursday morning, the gates of the Bagram Prison swung open and 65 men with long beards and new clothes walked out to freedom. The moment showed clearly just how thoroughly President Hamid Karzai h...

NASA's LADEE spacecraft has sent back its first close up looks at the lunar surface

Chrissy Teigen and Lily Aldridge both broke down in tears when they found out they scored the 2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover. As Gossip Cop previously reported, the models appear topless with Nina Agdal for cover...

Of the hundreds collections shown during New York Fashion Week, here are the ones that left the biggest impressions on fashion editors.     

A healthy, young giraffe was killed at the Copenhagen Zoo because officials there, who had bred him, decided they had enough of his particular genes. He was 'surplus." The entire affair reeks of arrogance and disregard f...

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal quits after an anti-corruption bill is blocked in the state assembly.

France is to send an extra 400 troops to the Central African Republic, where sectarian violence has caused thousands to flee.

Up to 40mm of rain and 20cm of snow are set to hit parts of the UK as appalling conditions show no sign of abating.

Missing 'world traveler' woman found dead in Texas just a few blocks from where she was last seen.     

British figure skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean return to Sarajevo to recreate their gold medal-winning performance of Bolero, 30 years ago.

Mike Kane pays tribute to former MP Paul Goggins, who died in January, as the Conservatives are beaten into third place by UKIP.