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Part civic building, part sculpture, the landmark project represents the lotus in three stages of bloom.

Defense for Oscar Pistorius closes case; final arguments to be held in August

Four NATO soldiers and two policemen killed in suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan.

US Secretary of State John Kerry warns that the dispute over the Afghan presidential election result could harm security and aid.

A charity says top politicians have been named as alleged child abusers, as MPs prepare to ask how more than 100 files were lost.

The Israeli military's Operation Protective Edge against militant group Hamas enters a "substantial phase," with strikes hitting at least 50 targets, officials say.

Australia, Japan to sign free trade, defense deals amid major shift in Japan's military policy

US vessel Cape Ray, located in the Mediterranean, starts 60-day process of neutralising materials including mustard gas.

Four people sentenced for up to five and a half years for planning to go to Iraq to fight and for supporting al-Qaeda.

Dove in to dangerous California surf.

The rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl, who was shoved off a moving train on an overnight trip from southern Thailand, has sparked public outrage and calls for capital punishment for rapists.

One study says American diets have remained the same for the last 20 years

Is American Girl telling Asian American girls their stories don't matter?

Four people were injured and 24 others were believed to be stranded at least 20 feet in the air after a roller coaster at a southern California amusement park struck a tree branch Monday evening. 

Typhoon Neoguri swept across the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa on Tuesday.

Robyn Curnow looks at how the Oscar Pistorius reenactment video could impact his murder trial.

A passenger plane getting ready to leave a Spain airport taxied across a runway where another was about to land, forcing the arriving plane to abort its landing and climb sharply to avoid a disaster.

Family of 12-year-old girl shot while riding scooter in New Jersey donating her organs

Separatist rebels retreated Monday from positions throughout eastern Ukraine and began building barricades in Donetsk and Luhansk in anticipation of a final stand against advancing government troops.

President Obama has a new guest column in the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz, making an appeal for renewed peace negotiations with the Palestinians, as the region itself is spiraling into yet more conflict. The column...

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Watch all 16 of Miroslav Klose's World Cup goals, as the German striker becomes the record scorer in World Cup history.