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Inspired by fighter jet, Israeli rescuers design prosthetic fin to save endangered sea turtle

A military plane carrying Laos Defence Minister Douangchay Phichit and other senior officials crashes in the north of the country.

Mayor in Vietnam capital calls for end to anti-China protest ahead of planned rallies

Nigerian police tell Sky News they are ill-equipped to face Boko Haram as the president travels to Paris to discuss the crisis.

The cat in California who was caught on video saving a boy from a dog is invited to "throw" the first pitch at a baseball game.

A general involved in the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi launched an unauthorized operation in Benghazi today aimed at rooting out Islamist armed groups in Libya's second-largest city. Twenty-four people have been kil...

France is to host a security summit on the threat from Boko Haram Islamists, after they abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria in April.

New video purportedly showing the Nigerian schoolgirls being held by Boko Haram was released on Monday. YouTube screenshot

After a less than enjoyable experience at the Kentucky Derby, Perry and Denise Martin planned to catch up on business and watch the race in California.

TORONTO -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was spotted in a small Ontario town Friday despite his lawyer insisting that the embattled leader of Canada’s biggest city is still in rehab....

Police hold relatives of man accused of deadly knife and bomb attack in Xinjiang region, state-backed newspaper reports.

Thousands join prime minister-elect in New Delhi, a day after leading the opposition BJP to victory in election.

Government and rebels announce "comprehensive solution" to trafficking a week ahead of presidential election.

By Hope T. Jackson, MD With summer just around the corner, a new report warns that the chemicals we use to keep our pools clean send thousands of Americans to the emergency room each year. What's worse, the injuries are ...

Record Balkan floods claim at least 20 lives in Serbia, Bosnia; thousands forced to flee

A search operation for a missing man on Lough Erne in County Fermanagh is due to resume on Saturday.

Authorities say they expect to find bodies in the capsized MV Miraj 4, which sank on Thursday with 200 people on board.

A crucial step in the procedure for publishing the long-delayed report of the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War has yet to start, the BBC understands.

Fire officials say a 22-year-old woman fell down an elevator shaft at Boston's Fenway Park.

Two commercial jets that nearly collided north of Hawaii last month were at altitudes assigned to them by air traffic controllers, the National Transportation Safety Board tells CNN.

Video taken in Soma, where mining accident killed 298, shows Erdogan telling a man he will be slapped for booing him.

Incoming Indian PM Narendra Modi is to take part in a victory parade in Delhi, after his opposition BJP party won a historic election victory.