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North Korean defectors have provided details about how they unwittingly created Kim Jong Il's "slush fund" — a system that they say is still used by his son, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. The North Korean governme...

Attorneys for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday denied as "false" and "preposterous" an allegation that defense team members posed as FBI employees while investigating the case in Russia.

For years, Morten Storm moved between two worlds. A radical Islamist turned double agent is lifting the lid on some of the world's best-kept secrets.

It's time for the coolest wine labels slideshow---an annual, and sometimes bi-annual, collection of wine labels that go above and beyond, delivering a "wow" factor that makes them as much fun to look as as they are to co...

Odile weakened to a tropical storm Monday night after blazing a trail of destruction through Mexico's Baja California Peninsula that leveled everything from ramshackle homes to luxury hotels, and left entire neighborhood...

President Obama is expected to announce the assigning of up to 3,000 military personnel to combat the Ebola virus in West Africa Tuesday, while the Pentagon has requested Congress to divert $500 million in overseas conti...

A fire driven by fierce winds raced through a small town near the Oregon border on Monday, burning a church to the ground, damaging or destroying 100 homes and prompting evacuation orders for at least 1,500 people, autho...

Twelve Nigerian soldiers were sentenced to death on Tuesday on charges of mutiny and attempted murder of their commanding officer in restive Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria. The soldiers, wh...

Police investigating the deaths of two Britons in Thailand say they are looking for a number of suspects - but rule out other British tourists.

Fighter jets and other combat aircraft used Taiwan's main highway as a makeshift airstrip Tuesday as part of a dawn drill that simulated an attack from China.

Jim Muir reports from the front line near IS-controlled Zumar, near Mosul, where Kurdish forces are fighting Islamic State militants.

ISIS extremists reopened schools in the captured city of Mosul -- but banned music, art and history. Most parents defiantly kept their kids at home rather than subject them to...

Typhoon hits China's southernmost island, heads to Vietnam; thousands evacuated

Twelve Nigerian soldiers are sentenced to death for mutiny after shots were fired at their commanding officer in the city of Maiduguri in May.

WASHINGTON -- Alarmed by the increased risk of homegrown terror threats, the Obama administration is putting together a plan to try to keep Americans from joining the murderous ranks of...

(Reuters) - Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden could be granted safe passage in Switzerland if he helped a potential criminal inquiry into U.S. spying there, the Swiss public prosecutor's office said on Monday...

UN envoy warns that Libya is now on the brink of prolonged conflict

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Rugby players who share towels, razors and cold baths are at risk of sharing serious skin infections too, public health experts warn.

The Vietnam draft dodgers were offered amnesty 40 years ago today, but their story isn't over

This week has seen wildfires spread throughout the state of California; from Yosemite National Park to the central region near San Francisco, and now the small town of Weed on the border with Oregon. Last night, 100 home...

125 mph winds raged with over six hours of rain as Hurricane Odile smashed the resort of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The local community was severely affected by power outages, flooding, and wind damage