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Morgan Essenheimer is relieved to be home, back with her fiance in California.

SYDNEY-- Counterterrorism raids in Sydney on Thursday were sparked by security intelligence that the Islamic State movement was planning a random, violent attack in Australia as a demonstration of its...

Polls open across Scotland as voters decide whether to break from UK and become independent

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (L) and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attend a news conference in Vienna on Jul. 18, 2014. Reuters/Leonhard Foeger

Studies show that spanking is harmful -- and unnecessary

It's an earful, alright

Less than a year after construction began, the project is making progress toward the opening of its first span, in 2016, and the full bridge by 2018.

International monitors endorse Fiji election, paving way for remaining sanctions to be dropped

Investigators believe they have found "strong evidence" in connection with the deaths of two young Britons on a Thai island.

WASHINGTON -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is faulting the United States for trying to take on ISIS "without any sacrifice" -- as the House approved arming Syrian rebels to battle...

A woman convicted of the 2004 starving death of a nine-year-old boy has been executed by lethal injection at a Texas state prison.

Vote passes 273-156 as Obama seeks to reassure lawmakers and Americans who fear the US will be drawn into a ground war

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday afternoon that "U.S. ground troops will not be sent into combat in this conflict," referring to the fight against the Islamic State...

Geopolitical tensions and increased risk taking add to disruption, though world economy expected to pick up during 2015 Excessive risk taking and geopolitical hazards pose new threats to a global economy already experien...

Hannah Overton, convicted of murder after her foster child died of salt poisoning, wins in court of criminal appeals after years in prison A mother found guilty of murder after her foster child died of salt poisoning has...

The ongoing grand jury proceedings may suggest the prosecutor is trying to avoid s backlash if Wilson isn't indicted

Official: NATO's new rapid-reaction force to have initial capabilities in less than year

Al-Khawaja out of prison but subject to travel ban and will face charges of assaulting a police officer.

They broke the glass ceiling -- and some say they should break their near-silence on the NFL's recent domestic-violence scandals. The female head honchos in question include Campbell Soup CEO...

In India's Kashmir region, more than 75,000 people remain effectively homeless after the worst flooding seen in more than a century. It's been more than a week since the floods came but many, especially migrants and the ...

(SOUNDBITE) (English and French) CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER, SAYING: "Mesdames et messieurs, ladies and gentlemen, it's my great pleasure, I know our great pleasure, to welcome to Canada,

Police carry out the largest counter-terror operation in Australia's history after intelligence indicated an attack was planned.