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He proved that he was hip before today's selfie-taking cool kids were even born.

A New Delhi court on Thursday confirmed the death penalty imposed by a lower court to four men convicted for the gang rape and murder of a young woman on...

Three floating objects sighted, a Chinese agency says But Vietnam finds nothing at the site, says will look again "Every day it just seems like it's an eternity": Passenger's wife

Shawnee's voice is shrill, quavering -- on the edge of desperate. She clutches her 11-month-old son while trying to comprehend the situation unfolding in front of her.

Earth-imaging satellite company DigitalGlobe announced it was activating its crowdsourcing platform to enlist civilians in the search for the lost jetliner.

KIEV -- It could be seen as saber rattling, fear-mongering or an astute prediction by a man with intimate knowledge of Ukrainian-Russian history, but Leonid Kravchuk is adamant that Russian President Vladimir Putin has s...

By Charles D. Ellis

This article is by David Kline, a journalist in Portland, Oregon, who was the first American to report on the anti-Soviet resistance war in Afghanistan.

Dozens of young people were arrested in Turkey's capital Ankara on Thursday, Turkish media reported, for protesting the death of a 15-year-old boy injured last June by police during anti-government protests. Berkin Elvan...

Two Maryland teenage girls were charged this week with assaulting an autistic boy and recording him on their cell phones performing sex acts, including some with animals, the St. Mary County Sheriff's Department said Wed...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama sat side by side with Ukraine's new acting prime minister Wednesday and declared the country can't operate with the "barrel of a gun" pointed at it....

Astronomers using the European Space Organizations's Very Large Telescope Interferometer have discovered the largest known yellow star, which is also one of the 10 largest stars ever discovered.

Protesters battle riot police in the streets of Caracas on Wednesday. With 3 more fatal shootings in Venezuela, the death toll from a month of demonstrations is raised to 25. While addressing supporters, President Nicola...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Approximately 100,000 people have fled their homes in Sudan's Darfur region because of an upsurge of violence in the last six weeks, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Wednesday.     

Putin once wrote in the Times that it was wrong of the United States to militarily intervene in a foreign country. Today, Oleksandr Turchynov wrote the same thing about Russia.     

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Lance Cpl. Steven T. Peterson, a machine gunner with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division and part of Black Sea Rotational Force 14, subdues a simulated enemy during a mechanical arm c...

General Motors Co. waited more than two weeks to expand a major recall to include the Saturn Ion and other compact cars, even though its engineers were aware of four...

Pia Farrenkopf's niece created page so friends, family can share stories about her.

It's a mystery in a world with few mysteries anymore.

Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein dismisses reports of plane staying in air for hours after losing contact.