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Police charge a 30-year-old woman with the murder of a baby in Belfast.

Ukraine claims Russian provocateurs have been sent to stir up trouble.

New apps and a web-based service make it much easier to get to your photos from anywhere.

Kepler-186f is 10% bigger and occupies its star's 'habitable zone' where temperatures would allow liquid surface water A newly discovered planet may be the most Earth-like yet found in another solar system, scientists be...

Karpal Singh, one of the leading lights of Malaysia's opposition movement, has died in an accident that also claimed the life of his personal assistant and left three others injured, two of them critically

Ukraine Interior Minister: 3 dead, 13 injured after clashes at Black Sea military base.

Phased parliamentary elections cross the half-way mark, with 121 constituencies casting their ballot.

Videos purport to show victims of fresh attack on Kafr Zita, while residents show remnants of bomb cases marked "CL2".

Life can be tough for people at any age, but most would agree that being a teenager is exceptionally difficult. When else can you can wake up with the comforts of childhood, and go to bed with the painful weight of aware...

Emergency services continue to search for nearly 300 people missing after a ferry carrying more than 470 sank off South Korea.

Russia's military actions are costing it dearly: Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region last month and the instability it created in Russian financial markets were cited by government officials for record capital...

The social networking site has announced a new feature for its iPhone and Android apps called "Friends Nearby." The feature will notify users when they have friends in their vicinity -- but it only works if users turn it...

Ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden risked the lives of secret agents by leaking documents containing their names, Conservative MP Liam Fox says.

A United Airlines flight was de-boarded at JFK airport at around 7 p.m. Wednesday after a bomb threat was made on Twitter, sources said. The plane, which was at Terminal...

Senior officials from the US, Russia, the EU and Ukraine meet in Geneva as differences over the crisis in eastern Ukraine deepen.

Six weeks of planning end with six minutes of sheer exhilaration.

A fourth term for ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is a foregone conclusion, local independent newspapers report.

A month after it began publishing the Innocents Lost series of investigative articles, the Miami Herald on Thursday is hosting a town hall meeting to discuss Florida’s failure to protect kids — and what might be done...

A 19-year-old undocumented immigrant confronted Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and not-quite-presidential candidate, about immigration reform at an event hosted by the Clinton Foundation Thursday. An hour...

A group of men who were allegedly prolific posters on the white supremacist website, Stormfront, were responsible for killing almost 100 people over the past five years, according to a report released today by the Southe...

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The Nobel-winning author was a literary Columbus discovering a New World. His famous work One Hundred Years of Solitude established him as the defining member of what was called the "boom" in Latin American writing and a...