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According to news reports, the opposition has taken full control over the government districts in Kiev, Ukraine, with the President Viktor Yanukovych's whereabouts unclear. Reports also suggest that the parliamentary spe...

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A New Zealand-born former model and television personality was found dead in her Sydney apartment Saturday morning, reported the Australian website news.com.au. Charlotte Dawson, 47, a judge on "Australia's Next...

Half of new "princes of the Church" to come from non-European countries, in a gesture to developing world.

Report on violence in world's newest nation says thousands of civilians killed and thousands more raped and tortured.

Nick Paton Walsh reports from Kiev amid mourning, hope and tension following the signing of a peace deal.

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Protesters in the Ukrainian capital claimed full control of the city Saturday following the signing of a Western-brokered peace deal aimed at ending the nation's three-month political crisis. The na...

As tensions rise between China and other Asian nations, a top U.S. general is working on improving contacts with China's military.     

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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Uganda's president said he wants no lectures from Western governments opposed to the country's controversial antigay bill, signaling he is set to sign it into law.     

President to seek scientific advice on whether homosexuality is "genetic or behavioural" before signing anti-gay bill.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- State lawmakers are again considering legislation that would involve Connecticut in an effort to replace the electoral college system with a national popular vote system for electing U.S. presiden...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama called Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday to get assurances that Moscow would back a hastily negotiated agreement on Ukraine's future. Obama phoned hours after Ukrainian President...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- A top aide to Ukraine's president says he has no intention of leaving the country.     

Florida man shocked by Medal of Honor; 24 vets getting them following review over prejudice     

Police in Tennessee cannot find the man whose Volkswagen Beetle was recently discovered in Detroit, 40 years after it was stolen.

The unusual mass ceremony, scheduled for March 18, will honor veterans, most of Hispanic or Jewish heritage, who had already been recognized with the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation's second-highest military awar...

Is Switzerland a "normal" country? People who know that Switzerland is more than yodeling, chocolates, and fondu, that it is also secretive Swiss bankers (with whom, one jurisdiction and much geography removed, I was onc...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- An Indian man fatally stabbed his American wife before killing himself in Agra, the city that is home to the Taj Mahal and where the couple married in October, police said Saturday.     

Five-month-old Sebastian de la Cruz shared a smile a day after motorists rushed to help his aunt perform CPR on him.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- Chris Capuano took the field in the uniform of the team he rooted for while growing up in Massachusetts.     

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A 23-year veteran firefighter was killed Saturday while helping evacuate students from a University of Missouri-run apartment complex after a second-story walkway collapsed, according to Columbia Fi...