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Court says family can proceed with suit that claims LA hospital put woman in freezer alive

Mom couldn't have full body scans without risking her pregnancy.

Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley's daughter is all grown up.

CHICAGO (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the government will get to the bottom of what happened in a shooting incident at Fort Hood.     

A woman has been taken by a shark while swimming off a popular beach in Australia's New South Wales.

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HOUSTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a ruling requiring the Texas prison system to disclose more information about where it gets lethal-injection drugs, reversing a judge who had halted an upcom...

The general in charge of Fort Hood said today there was an "awful lot of heroism" during the shooting rampage by Spc. Ivan Lopez, and he cited a female MP and a chaplain for their actions.

Fears of local tsunami after fresh tremor measured at 7.8 strikes just south of port of Iquique A powerful 7.6-magnitude aftershock hit Chile's far-northern coast late on Wednesday night, shaking the same area where a ma...

Lebanon's generally open-door policy for Syrians has immensely strained the tiny country's political and economic systems, as well as its overall stability

High levels of air pollution will continue to affect parts of the UK on Thursday, environment experts warn.

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- The United States is calling on Myanmar to lift travel restrictions on humanitarian workers trying to get to Rakhine state, where tens of thousands of Muslims are living in displacement camps.  �...

General Philip M. Breedlove says the Russian troops located close to the Ukrainian border represent a potent threat. They are prepared to attack on a 12 hours notice and could accomplish their military objectives within ...

Authorities said Wednesday the explosion that hit a liquefied natural gas storage facility in Eastern Washington earlier this week threw 250-pound pieces of steel up to 300 yards through the air.     

Researchers find that 29% of group of depressed patients experienced significant improvement in mood within a week The first UK study to give ketamine to severely depressed patients has found that it had dramatic positiv...

The EU is to launch a satellite from French Guiana as part of the biggest civil Earth-observation programme ever conceived.

Ahead of elections in Afghanistan, the BBC's Karen Allen interviews General Abdul Rashid Dostum, the former Afghan warlord who would be vice-president.

Thai scrapyard workers accidentally detonated a suspected World War II-era bomb Wednesday, killing seven and injuring 19 after attempting to cut into it with a blowtorch.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- A prison officer in Jamaica has died from bullet wounds inflicted during an attack by gunmen who ambushed him late last month.     

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Senate panel heard testimony Wednesday on a bill that, if enacted, would make Rhode Island the first state to ban the use of plastic checkout bags by grocery stores and other retailers.    �...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is not amused that Samsung is promoting a selfie with the president taken by Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz on a Samsung phone.     

Gabriel García Márquez, widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary Latin American authors, has been admitted to a hospital in Mexico, according to the Ministry of Health.