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ISIS savages sent this 10-year-old boy to die in their bloody war, according to their sick boasts on social media. The murderous militants posted online images of the machine-gun-toting child...

Many dog owners feel like their pets are like their children — and your brain seems to think so, too. In a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital investigated differe...

She can't be that nuts. Can she? On Wednesday afternoon, Gigi Jordan seemed to do her best to demonstrate that she's a filicidal momster who should be locked up --...

Super Typhoon Vongfang is mercifully expected to weaken before making landfall in Japan Monday, but at its peak it has reached wind speeds up to 180 mph, making it the most powerful storm of 2014 (so far). Thursday morni...

The Ebola outbreak is continuing to worsen in West Africa and the three worst-hit nations on the continent are ill equipped to stem the virus' spread, the World Health Organization, or WHO, said Wednesday. The deadly vir...

You won't believe the curiosity of this cat.

BLOOMFIELD, N.M. -- A New Mexico man is suing Burger King after he says a manager attacked him for complaining about cold onion rings. KRQE-TV reports the lawsuit filed in state...

They had small heads and wore silver overalls, apparently

An off-duty police officer fatally shot a man in south St. Louis Wednesday, sparking a night of unrest and activism in the city.

Artists and journalist among several people detained in Beijing, and accused of supporting Hong Kong demonstrations.

Attorneys of the United States Department of Justice argued that the controversial practice of force-feeding Guantanamo Bay inmates on hunger strike, is "safe, necessary and humane" as a three-day hearing on the treatmen...

China ruling party expels official for graft as results of 15-month austerity drive announced

Senior White House aides knew that a prostitute spent the night with a member of the Secret Service's presidential advance team station in Colombia but failed to properly investigate, or even publicly acknowledge, that f...

The Pentagon acknowledged Wednesday that Ayn al-Arab, known to locals as Kobane, could fall to the Islamic State group. The militants have been advancing on the Syrian border town for weeks while severely outnumbered Kur...

Lots of cities and towns have their own Oktoberfest. The original and most famous is in Munich, but there are offshoots everywhere from Blumenau, Brazil, to Bangalore, India, and many points in between — lots of them i...

Russia took the first step Wednesday toward enacting a law that would allow foreign-owned assets to be seized and used to compensate citizens and companies that have been targeted by Western Sanctions over the war in Ukr...

Opponents of the Syrian government say the United States' focus on the Islamic State has allowed government forces to renew its attacks on rebellious towns and neighborhoods.

Isha Sesay speaks to actor Jeffrey Wright about why he and other celebrities have chosen to speak out against Ebola.

The young'uns just love Hillary Clinton these days. A new poll from television network Fusion found that, should Clinton run for president, she's already got the support of 58 percent of 18-24 year-old Democrats. Vice Pr...

It is often said that time is money, but for entrepreneurs and innovators it is more often a brainwave that adds up to fortune -- just ask the whizz kids behind Uber, Zynga, and dozens of other start-up smash hits.

Nearly two months to the day after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, another black teenager was fatally shot by a white officer in nearby St. Louis on Wednesday. According to police, th...

The Obama administration is also wielding the oil weapon against two of the world's leading producers, Iran and Russia. These efforts, which include embargoes and trade sanctions, are likely to have a far greater impact ...