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WASHINGTON -- President Obama and his fellow leaders on Monday kicked Russia out of the world's most exclusive club -- the G8 group of leading industrialized countries. "We believe that...

Authorities in the north-western US state of Washington confirm at least 14 people were killed in Saturday's huge landslide that destroyed a town.

(BEIJING) -- China demanded Tuesday that Malaysia turn over satellite data used to conclude that a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was lost in the southern Indian Ocean with no survivors during a flight to Beijing. Among...

Rescuers upgrade the number of people missing in the Washington state mudslide describing the situation as "very grim".

OSO, Wash. -- First there was a “whoosh.” Elaine Young said she thought it might be a chimney fire, a rush of air that lasted about 45 seconds. But when...

Sharing bedrooms is reducing gender differences and increasing team spirit

World Health Organization says air pollution now the cause of one in eight deaths, with indoor stoves the biggest risk.

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Leaders hold annual meeting in Kuwait amid diplomatic fallout among Gulf countries and tension over Syria and Egypt.

I wore a hideous outfit to school every day and you should make your kids wear one too.

BANGKOK (AP) -- A double-decker bus carrying municipal workers on a field trip in western Thailand plunged off a steep road and into a ravine, killing at least 30 people and injuring 22 others, officials said Tuesday.  ...

Oklahoma prisons department changes lethal injection procedures, sets 5 methods for executions

A bill providing economic assistance to Ukraine and imposing sanctions over Russia's actions in Ukraine cleared a procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Monday (March 24), as backers attempted to win passage of the legi...

Knowing roughly where the missing Malaysian Airlines jet crashed into the southern Indian Ocean won't make finding remnants of the plane that much easier, experts said Tuesday. Not one object...

From tempeh to venison, there are plenty of ways to get your bacon fix.

Relatives demanding answers over missing plane march on Malaysian embassy in Beijing.

(CARACAS, Venezuela) -- U.S.-Venezuela relations have been deteriorating for years, and for members of the socialist-governed county’s better off, the failed diplomacy is suddenly endangering a dearly held value: Disne...

A court in Egypt has sentenced 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to death.

And it's a tear-jerker

A retired Boston police officer is facing wire fraud charges in federal court in New York, according to authorities.     

Health officials in Canada said Monday they are looking into the case of a man who recently traveled from Liberia and is exhibiting symptoms consistent with viral hemorrhagic fevers.

Though there's growing hope for detecting the disease before memory loss and confusion set in, doctors aren't ready to recommend early detection