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(Reuters) - North Korea on Monday accused U.S. and South Korean authorities of fabricating the results of a probe that concluded Pyongyang sent small surveillance drones, or unmanned aircraft, to spy on key South Korean ...

BAUCHI, Nigeria -- One of the teenagers who escaped from Islamic extremists who abducted more than 300 schoolgirls says the kidnapping was “too terrifying for words,” and she is now...

(Reuters) - Pro-Moscow rebels declared a resounding victory in a referendum on self-rule for eastern Ukraine, with some saying that meant independence and others eventual union with Russia as fighting flared in a conflic...

Voting has begun in the battleground of Varanasi as India votes in the final phase of its mammoth general election.

Martyn Poliakoff, chemistry professor at the University of Nottingham and owner of the best head of hair in science, has a video today exploring the properties of aluminum (or as chemists call it, aluminium). There are a...

AP INVESTIGATION: High costs, corruption suspicions in Brazil's World Cup on tournament's eve

A 25-year-old man is rescued from the balcony of a fourth floor flat after a fire breaks out.

Lee Kun-hee, the head of South Korea's largest business group underwent an emergency operation in Seoul over the weekend. Lee who took over from his father in 1987 is credited with transforming Samsung into one of the mo...

Thailand's Senate is to hold talks, as protesters call on it to replace the current government of ousted leader Yingluck Shinawatra.

Passing of anti-homosexuality act has 'given permission to a culture of extreme and violent homophobia', says Sexual Minorities Uganda Uganda has suffered an alarming rise in attacks on gay and lesbian people since it pa...

Egypt's prosecutor receives urgent appeal to transfer jailed Al Jazeera reporter to hospital as his health deteriorates.

At least 15 people have been killed during a riot at a football match in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say.

South Sudan's rebel leader says his side is still committed to a peace deal with the government, as both sides accuse each other of breaking a truce.

Locals return to Homs where many of its buildings, many thousands of years old, are now heaps of rubble.

And baby North looks really, really small next to it

Twin girls born with a rare condition in Ohio were breathing on their own and their mom said she and her husband were able to hold them on Mother's Day.

BJP leader Narendra Modi faces AAP's Arvind Kejriwal as temple city goes to polls in last phase of national elections.

Christie's wants you to know that tonight's auction of major contemporary art isn't just for filthy rich old people. It's for filthy rich Internet people, too.

Some say politics is showbiz for ugly people, but a very few politicians attain celebrity status.

The actress, who won an Oscar for her role in The Help, will have a starring role in the upcoming sci-fi flick

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"No Place to Hide" is an account of the Edward Snowden case by Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the story.