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It’s New York City’s ugliest roll call: Abner Louima, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Anthony Baez -- the litany of men of color injured and killed at the hands of New York City cops.

An Indiana teenager who was attempting to set a record for an around-the-world flight was killed when his plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean, and crews were searching Wednesday for his father, who was also on board.

Grief-stricken relatives of the victims killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the sky over Ukraine with a missile have reported calling their family members' phones to find them not only working, but ...

A suspected Nazi war criminal died in Philadelphia overnight Tuesday, just hours before a U.S. court ruling cleared the way for him to be extradited to Germany to face trial.

And why Israel doesn't like it

Smoke rises after an explosion in Gaza as an Israeli armoured personnel carrier (APC) is parked at a staging area near the border with Gaza July 23, 2014. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

At least 82 people were killed on Wednesday in two suicide bombings in the north Nigerian city of Kaduna, one aimed at opposition leader and ex-president Muhammadu Buhari and another at a moderate Muslim cleric about to ...

Authorities say an international criminal ring used stolen credit and debit cards to buy tickets to shows like "Book of Mormon," and pocketed the money when they resold them.

How strings-master Margot and in-demand producer Boots reimagined Bey's 2003 hit

Annual UN human development report finds halting progress in key measures

The father-son team were flying around the globe.

Veterans waiting for Congress to pass a law to reform their scandal plagued health care system will likely have to wait until after the legislature's five-week recess. 

Google Voice gets free VoIP calls, with no forced Google+ integration.

In the 1920s, Manhattan was transformed into America's entertainment and communications epicenter.

Authorities lost contact with flight AH 5017 an hour after it took off from Burkina Faso.

A man from Brazil could be the oldest living person ever at 126 years old. Jose Aguinelo dos Santos, or Ze, as he's know at the rest home where he's lived since 1973, has identification and a birth certificate that state...

Global Alliance for TB-Drug Development (TB Alliance) raised hopes of a novel drug regimen to treat both forms of TB--drug sensitive (DS) and multi-drug resistant (MDR)--at the XX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014...

WASHINGTON

A Minneapolis man says he and his two children were asked to get off a Southwest Airlines flight and were not allowed back on the plane until he deleted an uncomplimentary tweet about a gate agent. 

Now this is customer service with a smile. An Airbnb staffer tasked with weeding out inappropriate listings on the room-rental site showed she appreciates a sculpted torso as much as...

The development came only hours after a WGBH story on MyDeMoulas.com, an unofficial site run by a New Hampshire-based customer.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal says there can be no ceasefire unless Israel ends its eight-year blockade of the Gaza Strip.