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South Korea launches a manhunt for a soldier who shot dead five of his comrades and fled his post near the border with North Korea.

Police in the UK will have to deal with the threat of British fighters returning from Syria for "many years", a senior Scotland Yard officer tells the BBC.

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Canadian police recapture three prisoners in Montreal who escaped by helicopter from a jail outside Quebec city.

The Obama administration has announced that it will work to process and deport illegal immigrants quicker, and that a new detention center for families crossing the border is to be opened.

Pope Francis journeyed Saturday to the heart of Italy's biggest crime syndicate, met the father of a 3-year-old boy slain in the region's drug war, and declared that all mobsters are automatically excommunicated from the...

The United States is launching an effort to save some of its busiest workers: honey bees.

Abu Deraa, a suspected mass murderer of Sunnis during 2006, has returned to Iraq following the recent crisis involving the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Sunni militants consolidated control of four more strategic towns, including a key border crossing with Syria, in Iraq's Anbar province Saturday after killing at least 30 Iraqi soldiers. The forces...

The search for a missing 70-year-old outdoors writer who disappeared while hiking on Mt. Rainier has been suspended after a woman's body was discovered Saturday, officials said. 

Wow Wie! Michelle Wie, former teen prodigy, captures 1st major at Pinehurst in US Women's Open

Preview followed by live coverage of Monday's World Cup game between Cameroon and Brazil.

A great white shark is swimming through the Gulf of Mexico toward Texas -- and residents across the U.S. are watching its progress.

Texas lawmakers call for state to begin investigating mass immigrant graves in South Texas

Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly accused of a bombing carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1974, died Friday night at age 60 in his home in Falls Road, Belfast, following a long battle with cancer. ...

IF THERE is a God, he surely has a sense of humor. The career of Shimon Peres, who is about to finish his term as President of Israel, is clear evidence. Here is a life-long politician, who has never won an election. Her...

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The veteran midfield will lead the Americans today against Portugal.

Security services will not be able to monitor all of the Britons who return to the country after fighting in Syria, a former MI6 counter-terrorism official says.

Pentagon officials say they are aware of pictures posted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria showing U.S. Humvees being shipped to al Qaeda rebel forces in Syria. The Washington Free Beacon, an online newspaper from t...

A Polish newspaper Sunday released an excerpt of a secretly recorded conversation between Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and former Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski in which Sikorski said Poland's security rel...

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