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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.

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.

France's Hollande and Obama press for Ukraine cease-fire, ask Putin to pressure separatists

Dove in to dangerous California surf.

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?

Only 1 to 2 percent of people in the world have red hair — and that number could continue to decrease due to climate change, scientists warn. In Scotland, 13 percent of the population has red hair, which is believed to...

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. 

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...

DONETSK, Ukraine

Germany has reached the World Cup final, in a painful showing for Brazil

"Once there was a girl who wanted to go to school...."

Photos: Dejected Brazil fans