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Airbnb gone very, very wrong.

"It looks like me," Sam Miller said.

"We're calmer which makes everything better," he said of welcoming a second kid.

Colby Procyk has a feline to thank for helping him improve as a reader.

The Pentagon says that a team of Navy SEALs has boarded the oil freighter "Morning Glory" in the Mediterranean that had been seized by three armed Libyans. No one was hurt in the raid, which took place late Sunday in int...

Crackdown in Egypt on ousted president's backers sees 16,000 detained, many reports of abuses

Charity finds country's five richest families own more wealth than poorest 20% of population and appeals to chancellor over tax The scale of Britain's growing inequality is revealed today by a report from a leading chari...

LAZARO CARDENAS, Mexico (AP) -- Forget crystal meth. The pseudo-religious Knights Templar drug cartel in western Mexico has diversified to the point that drug trafficking doesn't even rank among its top sources of income...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks says a onetime Osama bin Laden spokesman who is on trial in New York had no role in planning military operations for al-Qaida.     

North Korea fired 25 short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast Sunday in an apparent continuation of protests against ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills, South Korean officials said.

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A former guard of a prison camp tells of the horrors faced by its inhabitants.

Presenters at the annual Ocean Sciences Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Honolulu in late February said ocean water containing dissolved radionuclides from Fukushima's crippled nuclear reactors has reached th...

The parents of a Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl abducted by North Korea in 1977, describe their first meeting with her daughter as "miraculous".

A man the Moscow Times calls "the Kremlin's new chief propagandist" claimed "Russia is the only country in the world that is realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash" on Russian TV today. B...

TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., who founded a Kansas church widely known for its protests at military funerals and anti-gay sentiments, is in a care facility, according...

More than ninety per cent of the voters in a referendum in Crimea cast ballots in favor of seceding from Ukraine and rejoining Russia, according to reports a couple of hours after the polls closed Sunday night. Those bal...

Loving life? Well, lap it up because the days of driving around in comfy cars, feasting on fancy food and enjoying an air conditioner-cooled existence could be numbered. With rising...

"I am not a crook." "Read my lips: no new taxes!" "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." "Mission accomplished." "If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it." While George Washington may have been inca...

The search is on for Nakul Kalra, a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student who went missing Saturday afternoon.

Australia will control the "southern vector" search for the missing Malaysian plane, PM Tony Abbott says, amid scrutiny of cockpit communications.

Alabama commentator Roger Shuler's condition has sharply worsened during his nearly five months of jailing, as I learned by visiting him in Birmingham March 10. The corruption-fighting reporter said he has lost 16 pounds...