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Militants from the Islamic State, who released a video Tuesday appearing to show the beheading of U.S journalist James Wright Foley, also threatened to kill another man, believed to be U.S. journalist Steven Joel Sotloff...

The mystery disappearances of two Indiana moms could be linked to a serial predator, police say.

Relatives of Palestinians, whom hospital officials said were wounded by an Israeli air strike, cry at a hospital in Gaza City August 19, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry was defiant as he was booked Tuesday on abuse of power charges Tuesday, saying he would “fight this injustice with every fiber of...

Daytime presenter annoyed by callers explicit language during phone-in about lending your partner to a friend Channel 5s Matthew Wright has previously landed in hot water with the TV regulator over a joke he made about t...

Charity bosses say the plans are a "vital step forward for victims of domestic abuse".

(MONROVIA, Liberia) -- Liberia’s president has declared a curfew and is imposing a quarantine of a major slum in the capital Monrovia as the death toll mounts from Ebola. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced late ...

Security researchers in Michigan reveal vulnerabilities in crucial roadway infrastructure

For humans - these are the deadliest creatures on Earth. Mosquito-born illnesses kill more people each year than all other animals combined. And dengue fever, which effects tens of millions of people each year is seeming...

"This is my pledge to the people of Ferguson: Our investigation into this matter will be full, it will be fair, and it will be independent."

Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets at Israel for a second day on Wednesday after fighting resumed with the collapse of truce talks and an Israeli air strike that killed three people in Gaza.

Arizona flooding creates several dramatic scenes as people are rescued, roads are flooded

Ferguson has been rocked by violence since killing of unarmed black teenager by white policeman more than a week ago.

There has been a sharp increase in the number of girls under 18, who have fled the conflict in Syria, being forced into early marriages, the United Nations has told the BBC.

US working to confirm authenticity of video purportedly showing death of American

Opposition leader Imran Khan has refused to join talks to end days of protests in Islamabad, saying they would be "no use" unless the Prime Minister resigns.

Peace prevailed last night in Ferguson, Missouri—for the most part. There were a few bottles hurled at the cops, and dozens of arrests, but no gunshots, looting, teargas plumes, or fusillades of rubber bullets. Largely...

Sky News takes a look at the stories making a splash on the front pages of Thursday's national newspapers.

A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to provide Congress with a list of documents that are at the center of a long-running battle over a failed law enforcement program called Operation Fast and Furious.

It may have taken some time, but you finally landed an apartment -- congrats! You're excited to have a space to call your own. Things may not look so bright, however, when you start moving in and realize you have way too...

One person was stabbed in Providence today outside The Coffee Exchange, a cafe near Brown University that recently served as a filming location for a new Woody Allen movie.

"I understand that mistrust," Holder said during a meeting with Ferguson residents. "I am the Attorney General of the United States. But I am also a black man."