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Highly contagious virus kills 59 people in Guinea, with fears the disease may have spread to neighbouring Sierra Leone.

JOHANNESBURG -- Prosecutors at Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial have presented a “golden thread” of evidence suggesting Reeva Steenkamp screamed before she died, leaving the double-amputee athlete with “serious ques...

At least three people are killed and several injured in a huge landslide in a rural area of the American state of Washington, officials say.

William Hague says Europe must stand firm against Russia's "bullying behaviour" after forces seize control of more military bases.

At least 16 unguided, Soviet-era missiles that Pyongyang has had since the 1960s fired into sea off its east coast.

Boston Police Raise Money To Help Officers Deal With Marathon Bombings Trauma     

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to pass a measure to outlaw workplace discrimination against gays, saying it's outrageous that the country is even debating the subject.     

BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. first lady Michelle Obama told Chinese professors, students and parents on Sunday that she wouldn't have risen to where she was if her parents hadn't pushed for her to get a good education.     

A barge carrying nearly a million gallons of especially thick, sticky oil collided with a ship in Galveston Bay on Saturday, spilling an unknown amount of the fuel into the popular bird habitat just as the peak of the mi...

MONTROSE, Colo. (AP) -- Authorities believe there are no survivors after a small plane crashed into a reservoir in southwestern Colorado.     

Colombian forensic experts are on the gruesome scene where 4 people were killed and 11 others injured in a blast. The explosion targeted a drug rehabilitation centre and homeless shelter in the city of Medellin. Police s...

Video from Kabul's Serena hotel shows men passing through metal detector before going on to kill nine with hidden guns.

The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 37o, now in its third week, continued Sunday following a possible debris sighting by a Chinese satellite.     

Tony Abbott says there is 'increasing hope' as search plane identifies wooden pallet and strapping belts in Indian Ocean Paul Farrell

Girls in gangs live in "a parallel world" in which "rape is used as a weapon and carrying drugs and guns is seen as normal", a think tank says.

American investigators have settled on three primary theories to explain the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a senior U.S. official told ABC News tonight.

For Angel Rojas, the daily bus ride through the streets of Brooklyn provided a respite from a hardscrabble existence juggling two low-paying jobs.

Turkish finance minister tells the BBC that his government's ban on Twitter was justified because the site had failed to comply with court orders.

Tens of thousands of Chileans rally in Santiago to encourage new President Michelle Bachelet to carry out the reforms she has promised.

If the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks pull off an improbable win tonight, there could be as many as four teams in the Sweet Sixteen with a tenth seed or lower.      

Polling data finds the protests to be deeply unpopular in Venezuela, although they do much better abroad when they are promoted as "peaceful protests" by people like Kerry. The data also suggest that a majority of Venezu...

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) -- Shannon MacAulay scored on a breakaway with 4:16 left in the third and it proved to be the difference as Clarkson beat two-time defending champion Minnesota in Sunday's NCAA women's hockey champions...