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Don't get caught in a web of bad decisions. A woman in Hutchinson, Kansas, is charged with arson after police say she set her home on fire during an attempt to kill a spider, the Hutchinson News reports. Ginny M. Griffit...

During the first world war hundreds of soldiers, many of them teenage volunteers, were shot by firing squad for cowardice or desertion. Chloe Dewe Mathews's photographs of the mostly forgotten sites of their execution pr...

The Iraqi army says it is making positive advances in a counter-offensive in Tikrit, but residents say ISIS is still in control.

The Iraqi government says it has received the first batch of fighter jets it ordered from Russia to help counter an offensive by Sunni rebels.

The federal arraignment Saturday of the suspected ringleader of the 2012 Benghazi attacks is likely to revive the political firestorm over prosecuting terrorism suspects on American soil.

The signs at the Texas border offer a glimpse of the enormity of the problem of unaccompanied minors trying to sneak into the US. The instructions are printed in English...

Christiane Amanpour spoke with Hina Rabbani Khar, former Pakistani Foreign Minister on the issue of honor killings.

People in Hong Kong are voting on the last day of an unofficial poll on universal suffrage - a move criticised by the local and China's governments.

A metal security gate detached from the facade of an Italian ice shop Saturday afternoon, killing a 3-year-old girl, police said.

Israel responded to a round of rocket fire on Saturday with a series of airstrikes in Gaza on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not rule out a larger operation following a month of rocket fire from mi...

In a remote village in the dangerous northeastern Kunar province of Afghanistan, Army Green Beret Maj. Jim Gant was doing something few others had -- he was making progress against...

Premature newborn spent 5 months in hospital, still faces long roadOn Christmas, Eva Mae Casara, 17, was about 25 weeks pregnant when she was shot and left for dead in Dolton following a botched robbery she participated ...

Eleven dead and 28 wounded in bombing suspected to have been carried out by Boko Haram in northeastern city of Bauchi.

Bulgaria's president confirms he will dissolve parliament and appoint an interim government, amid concerns over the country's banking system.

The riots helped start the modern LGBT movement

The launching off the east coast came four days before the Chinese president was due to make his first visit to the peninsula, in Seoul, South Korea.

Thousands of people have gathered in Sarajevo to commemorate 100 years since the assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Man sets himself on fire in Tokyo in protest against government's proposed new defence policy.

"Transformers: Age of Extinction" is ruling the box office. The fourth installment of filmmaker Michael Bay's morphing robots series earned $100 million in its opening weekend, making it the biggest debut for a movie in ...

As we reach the business end of the World Cup, it is easy to forget that while watching sport has never been so popular, taking part is another matter. And one particular question is exercising the minds of school leader...

British academic says new statement suggests Isis is now challenging al-Qaida for global leadership of the jihad movement The announcement of a formal Islamic state by insurgents in Syria and Iraq is a "declaration of wa...

Sports agent Henry Thomas has informed Miami Heat President Pat Riley that Chris Bosh will opt out of his contract.