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The retro soda shop — it's a cultural phenomenon we largely missed out on as children of the '70s and beyond, but one we would happily welcome back. Food trends come and go, but we believe that milkshakes, egg creams, ...

At least three eyewitnesses spotted al Qaeda hijackers casing the security checkpoints at Boston's Logan Airport months before the 9/11 attacks. They saw something and said something -- but were...

Man kept in isolation in Texas hospital had returned from Liberia before he began showing symptoms of the disease.

Major General Tan Benhong, the commander of the People's Liberation Army in Hong Kong, was a picture of uniformed calm as he shared champagne toasts with Chinese officials on Wednesday at local celebrations marking China...

At least five people were killed in a powerful suicide bomb explosion Saturday night near a girls' high school in Quetta, police said.

A senior North Korean official on a rare visit to South Korea has denied reports that the country's young leader Kim Jong Un is ill, saying there is "no problem at all," a South Korean minister said on Sunday. Speculatio...

A strong typhoon is bearing down on Japan and has Tokyo in its sights.

As millions flee the conflict in Syria, the regions humanitarian crisis grows by the day. Acclaimed war photographer Giles Duley travelled to Lebanon where he heard some of the Syrian refugees moving stories Sometimes th...

Massachusetts doctor successfully treated for Ebola back in hospital; virus not suspected

Syrian refugees to perform Mozart's comic opera Cosi Fan Tutte in Stuttgart, Germany.

Fighting over ISIS's attempt to seize the Syrian town of Kobani on the border with Turkey remained at a stalemate Saturday, with Kurdish fighters claiming they were fending off the Islamic militants' siege.

Eli -- a sweet, active, blonde-haired preschooler -- had gone to sleep feeling fine, perhaps dreaming of playing with his sisters or having a fun day at school.

The Obama administration is trying to stanch the flow of radicalized young Muslim Americans traveling to Syria to join Islamic State fighters.

The Pakistani Taliban express support for Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, calling on Islamists worldwide to "forget rivalries".

Stupid or bad. No matter where you looked, the Bears played stupid or bad in Carolina on Sunday.

Observers of Wednesday morning's total lunar eclipse might be able to catch sight of an extremely rare cosmic sight.

Police scuffle with Hong Kong protesters as pro-democracy movement faces clear-out deadline

Recent polling from the Pew Research Center found while a large majority of Americans acknowledge the growing gap between rich and poor and see it as a problem, there is little public consensus on the cause of -- or prop...

Hong Kong standoff reflects tensions over deepening rifts, growing influence from China

California officials unveil first section of 'Johnny Cash Trail' near Folsom State Prison

Argentinian politicians dismiss suggestion that Top Gear presenter's H982 FKL number plate was 'an unfortunate coincidence' Jeremy Clarkson, the presenter of the BBC2 television show Top Gear, has claimed that protests s...

A man who vomited while on a flight from Brussels to Newark, N.J., on Saturday was taken to a hospital after landing to be tested for the deadly virus.