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Voting restrictions and an ever-tightening Chinese policies are causing unrest amongst Hong Kongers

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CDC Confirms First Ebola Case Diagnosed in U.S.

More than 900 chickens at a California farm were beaten to death with a golf club last month, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. The gruesome scene was discovered Sept....

A team for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flew down to Dallas after a patient was placed under evaluation after exhibiting symptoms of the Ebola virus. The patient, who had been in Liberia, is the first p...

Family of missing 14-year-old informed after largest police search operation since the 7/7 bombings Police searching for the missing London teenager Alice Gross have found a body in the river Brent. Scotland Yard said th...

The protests engulfing Hong Kong intensified on Tuesday, as demonstrators fanned out across the territory's business districts to express their opposition to Chinese interference in Hong Kong's electoral system.

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A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from an African-American donor, a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partne...

This year, hajj will take place against the ugly backdrop of a group that has come to represent the antithesis of what the pilgrimage signifies

In a program offering sexually active teenagers in St. Louis free birth control, the rates were less than a quarter of those of such teenagers nationally,

Study published just as Massachusetts weighs whether to welcome casinos

Newly disclosed government documents show that in 1976, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger mapped out secret plans to launch airstrikes against Havana and "smash Cuba."

A passenger train collision in Gorakhupur in northern India has killed at least three people and injured dozens. New Delhi TV reported dozens of passengers were injured after two trains crashed head-on in eastern Uttar P...

California will be the first state to ban the use of single-use plastic bags, now that Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation to phase them out at supermarkets, grocery stores and other retail establishments. Brown's en...

Gersh Zavodnik has filed more than 120 lawsuits in Indiana courts.          

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected a request by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to postpone a hearing on 8 October.

Younger bowel cancer patients should be offered a genetic test to screen for a rare condition linked to a higher risk of cancer, say UK researchers.

The BBC's John Simpson looks back at China's attempts to gain more control in Hong Kong.

A security contractor with a gun made it onto an elevator with the president in Atlanta, without permission from the Secret Service. He began taking photos and "behaving unprofessionally."

Sabrina Allen was 4 when she disappeared following a visit with her mother.