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The Mormon church excommunicated the founder of a prominent women's group, a rare move that brings down the harshest punishment available on an adherent who created an organization and staged demonstrations in a push for...

Sunni Iraqi militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, on Sunday took control of the western Iraqi city of Rutba, which lies 90 miles east of the Jordan border.

The Border Patrol has picked up hundreds of tots, including 95 under age 1, who crossed from Mexico with people other than their parents over the past year, according to...

Troops on Monday surrounded Yim so closely in the forest about 7 kilometers (4 miles) from the border outpost that they could toss him a mobile phone to talk to his father. Yim, who still refused to surrender, had ammuni...

Parents plead with sergeant who killed five comrades to surrender after manhunt tracks him down to forest hideout South Korean troops have surrounded a fugitive soldier who killed fivecolleagues in a gun and grenade atta...

Tensions run high at an annual festival in China that has become a flashpoint between animal rights activists and those who defend eating dog meat as a tradition.

Barack Obama and John Kerry give their warnings as militants capture four more towns in western Iraq with little resistance.

Ukraine presses Putin for unqualified support for peace plan as both sides report violence despite Friday's truce Fighting has flared between Ukrainian and pro-Moscow separatist forces, both sides reported, further strai...

A father and daughter weren't going to just sit there when they discovered their home was being burglarized.

Funeral for fourth Palestinian killed in West Bank takes place as Israel steps up operation to find missing settlers.

The Syrian government and rebel groups reportedly agree a truce for Yarmouk refugee camp, where 18,000 are living in desperate conditions.

EU should withhold financial assistance until abuses stop, says Human Rights Watch after hearing detainees' claims of beatings Migrants and refugees held in government-run detention centres in Libya are being tortured an...

Black BananasElectric Brick Wall Drag City Jennifer Herrema, a graduate of the renegade art-noise band Royal Trux, seems to be getting younger as time goes by. Echoing Sky Ferreira's 2013 album Night Time, My Time, Herr...

The former head of global counter-terrorism at MI6 has warned that the security services will not be able to monitor all of the Britons who return to the country after fighting in Syria.

A month after overthrowing the civilian government in Thailand, the military authorities have moved to stifle all dissent in the country, arresting people for the smallest signs of defiance.

Israeli warplanes bombed a series of targets inside Syria early Monday, the Israeli military said, in response to a cross-border attack that killed an Israeli teenager the previous day.

Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed on charges of reporting false news and aiding a banned group.

Top Malaysian court upholds ban forbidding non-Muslims from using "Allah" to refer to God

The Border Patrol shelved plans to fly nearly 300 Central American illegal immigrants to California from Texas late Sunday.

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A dedicated team offering residential care to people who suffer chronic pain is to be based at the Gartnavel Hospital site in Glasgow.

Libya's interim parliament has adopted a 2014 budget worth $48bn (£28bn), after delays due to the unrest that has plagued the nation.