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Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has offered air support to help the Kurdish military battle the extremist group, Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, after the Sunni milita...

What is life all about? What's your five-year plan? Your ten-year plan? If you're anything like me, your answer is probably something along the lines of "I have no idea." And just being asked that question makes you feel...

With over two million applicants a year, it seems like everyone wants to work at the search giant. Is it because it was crowned the Happiest Company in America? In 2011, CareerBliss.com ranked Google #1 after more than 1...

Grammy-winning folk duo the Civil Wars is breaking up. For good, they say.

Israel will withdraw all its ground forces from the Gaza Strip before the beginning of a 72-hour Egypt-mediated ceasefire with Hamas on Tuesday, according to media reports.

Israeli forces have left the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces announced, following the start of a planned cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

Many of the passengers aboard the ferry were returning from ancestral villages after celebrating Eid al-Fitr

Investigation by AP news agency finds US aid programme used an an HIV-prevention workshop for political purposes.

Global rights regulator Amnesty International accused Nigeria's military and its civilian militia of extensive "human rights violations" in their fight against Boko Haram. Amnesty collected testimonies from witnesses, im...

A woman charged in a Joliet double murder asked after her arrest how much time she would get for accessory to murder, a police officer testified today.

Everyone's at least heard of the Roman Empire. But have you ever looked closely at a map of it? Before the internet age, that took some digging. But these days, we have not just an ordinary map, but a high-quality zoomab...

Another historic Winnetka home is one step closer to demolition after officials declined on Monday to delay a proposed tear-down.

The BBC's Steven Rosenberg reports from Russia's border with Ukraine on the 438 Ukrainian soldiers who have retreated to Russia because they are ''under intense pressure''.

An additional $225 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars will be allocated for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system as a result of legislation signed by President Barack Obama Monday, the White House said. Giving money t...

As the Ukrainian military warns of plans to assault this rebel-controlled city, separatist militants are thinning on the streets and their leaders are canceling public appearances.

One year after 13 Major League Baseball players were suspended for ties to the Florida anti-aging clinic Biogenesis of America, Tony Bosch, the clinic's founder, has agreed to plead guilty to distributing steroids. 

Some months ago, in a foul and nidorous vault, seated at a stone table near a pool in which some strange writhing thing turned slowly in the quag, a murder of marketers made a blood pact. They vowed to keep the plot of T...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg welcomes the Supreme Court's recent embrace of gay rights, telling a law school last week that in the past few years, the high court has used lofty language about the bedrock values of "libert...

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Australia berates Israel over 'indefensible' attacks on United Nations schools in Gaza

At least two US Representatives have tried to connect the current West African Ebola outbreak with the immigration crisis on the US/Mexican border.