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Police and about 200 protesters clashed in Ferguson, Missouri early Saturday morning following the disclosure of the officer who fatally shot a black teenager a week earlier and accusations that the teen was involved in ...

A northern New York couple has been arraigned on charges they intended to physically harm or sexually abuse two Amish sisters after kidnapping them from a roadside farm stand.

Imran Khan and Tahir ul-Qadri vow to keep protests alive in Islamabad until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif steps down.

The PM writes to an animal charity promising legislation to outlaw the use of lions, elephants and other similar animals.

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Tension was renewed again early Saturday, as protesters infuriated by the death of Michael Brown barricaded a major thoroughfare and police officers in riot gear quickly responded.

Activists plan to block commercial Israeli ship from docking at ports in solidarity with Palestinians.

Police officials arrested seven people who allegedly forced school children to donate blood in northwest China, according to the Xinhua news agency. In China, people between ages 18 to 55 can reportedly donate blood lega...

3 days of flooding in western Nepal leaves 54 people dead, 142 missing

The woman, thought to be from Sierra Leone, was tested as a precautionary measure following the ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Hundreds of thousands cheered Saturday as the pope rode through downtown Seoul for a ceremony to beatify 124 Korean Catholics killed for their beliefs more than a century ago.

The young American woman accused of murdering her socialite mother in Bali before stuffing her in a suitcase claims that she's pregnant. Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer,...

Moscow's Defense Minister Sergey Shoygo "guarantees" a convoy of 260 trucks being checked by the Red Cross has no troops on board.

Gao Zhisheng was released last week, but his wife says he can barely talk or eat because his teeth are wrecked The Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was kept in isolation for two and a half years and starved befor...

Texas Governor Rick Perry is indicted on charges of abuse of power by a grand jury after months of investigation into his use of a funding veto.

Britain welcomes the passing of the United Nations resolution it drafted which is designed to weaken Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria.

The U.S. military conducted new airstrikes against Islamic militants Friday as sources tell Fox News members of the group killed at least 90 male members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a northern village and kidnapped "doz...

Via Rolling Stone National Affairs reporter (and Mother Jones alumni) Tim Dickinson, Twitter user @TheePharoah appears to have witnessed—and live-tweeted—Michael Brown's shooting on August 9 from his home in Ferguson...

New manager refuses to go along with gloomy mood and says club can finish in the top half of the Premier League Crisis? What crisis? For a club that were embarking on their second consecutive third tier campaign as recen...

Montana Democrats on Saturday selected a new nominee for U.S. Senate, tapping first-term state Rep. Amanda Curtis as their candidate. But she faces an uphill climb, to say the least, for a seat that Democrats are widely ...

Missouri's governor declares a state of emergency in the St Louis suburb where a black teenager was shot dead by police last week.

Jay Nixon: We must have and maintain peace Curfew will run from midnight to 5am Governor rattled as emotions run high at news conference Days of rage expose a segregated society Sharpton urges protesters not to aid smear...