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It's refeshing to watch the fastest man alive act like any other twentysomething lad For many of us, it was an oddly familiar scene: a twentysomething crawling past a bus stop in the early hours of the morning, after the...

After first airstrikes, US drops new aid to thousands of Iraqis fleeing militant advance

The militants resumed their rocket attacks Friday shortly before the 72-hour truce expired, drawing a wave of retaliatory airstrikes that killed at least five Palestinians. 

Aid worker Kent Brantly issues a statement from his isolation room as Canada deals with its first suspected victim.

About 35,000 people are expected in Londonderry to attend the annual Relief of the City parade on Saturday, organised by the Apprentice Boys of Derry.

Erdogan victory could shift Turkish president's role from figurehead to more powerful rule

A team of medical experts is flying out to Gaza to assist victims, as fresh fighting stalls attempts to revive the ceasefire.

A woman and man died after the car they were in was hit by a freight train in Gary early this morning, authorities said.

Fifty carers for disabled began action nearly seven weeks ago after firm took over NHS service and reduced pay by up to 35% Fifty carers for the disabled are staging one of the longest strikes in the history of the healt...

ISIS Islamist fighters are now a mere 25 miles from the Kurdish capital

Israeli tanks gathered on the the border with Gaza on Saturday (August 9) as explosions could be seen over the coastal enclave. Israel launched more than 20 aerial attacks in Gaza early on Saturday and militants fired se...

Kerry seeks to calm South China Sea tensions between China, neighbors at Asia security talks

Campaigning in Turkey's first direct presidential election enters its final day ahead of Sunday's vote.

Buddhist monks from Hong Kong offered prayers at the site of a 2010 hostage-taking incident in Manila on Saturday (August 9). Eight Hong Kong tourists died in the Philippines capital after a sacked policeman hijacked a t...

'I looked over at Leigh, and there was this mixture of loathing and pure rage on her face. And I said to my friends, 'Maybe we can't do this song' Many years ago I ruined a beautiful friendship, and it was over a song, w...

It didn't surprise experts that Chicago's water supply was not contaminated by an algae bloom toxin that forced officials in Toledo to issue a recent ban on drinking water from Lake Erie.It didn't surprise experts that C...

Interviews with multiple officials in the Obama administration paint a portrait of a president forced by the unexpectedly rapid deterioration of security in Iraq to abandon his longstanding reluctance to use military for...

Israeli attacks on United Nations facilities are repeating a pattern that an agency board of inquiry reported in 2009. Israel says it is addressing the issues.

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Republican governor candidate Bruce Rauner on Friday moved to minimize possible political fallout after the federal indictment of two former executives of a brokerage set up by Chicago private equity giant GTCR when Raun...

Prime minister of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic says move aimed at preventing humanitarian disaster.

A Michigan teen missing since Thursday was found safe more than 40 miles from home, but investigators are still trying to piece together what happened to the 18-year-old, police said today.