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It was the battle of the sexes at the United Nations on Tuesday. In one corner was the female ambassador of Qatar to the UN, Sheikha Alya Bint Ahmed Bin...

Missouri officials say a 600-pound black bear has been struck and killed by a semitrailer near the Arkansas border.

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Uganda has been declared free of Marburg, an Ebola-like viral hemorrhagic fever, the World Health Organization said.

The organization has struggled to keep up with the spread and decline of the disease in specific localities.

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Jailed for shootings in 1966, 78-year-old has left Littlehey prison in Cambridgeshire Police killer Harry Roberts has been released from prison, it has been revealed. The 78-year-old, who was jailed for life for shooting...

Ferguson, Missouri, residents and law enforcement agencies alike are gearing up for a potentially violent aftermath from the long-awaited grand jury ruling on Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed black t...

ISIS has a new residency in Egypt, according to a YouTube message posted Sunday.

Opponents of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to allow George Lucas to build his museum on the lakefront will file a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday, the group told the Tribune.

Syrian Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State group in the border city of Kobani reportedly took back part of the strategic Mishtenur hill on Wednesday, blocking the militants' supply route from their Syrian stronghol...

The U.N. estimates more than 100,000 minority Rohingya Muslims have fled ethnic and sectarian violence in Myanmar, most making the perilous seaborne journey to Malaysia.

Ebola is not a death sentence. That is the lesson to the world from the release this week of Dr. Craig Spencer from a hospital in New York.

At least 11 women are dead and scores hospitalized as a result of a sterilization procedure in India. Sumnima Udas reports.

Concerns are mounting for some Fred Fuller Oil customers as colder weather approaches New Hampshire.

A man walked into an emergency room in Poland with a 15-inch piece of wood sticking out of his head. Kamil Podwinski was doing some home improvements at his house...

A British woman, the accused terrorist dubbed the "White Widow," has been killed by a Russian sniper in Ukraine, a Russian news service reported Wednesday. Samantha Lewthwaite, 30, was gunned down...

Expect many more such lawsuits if TPP passes: "Uruguay has presented a 500 page document to defend itself against an international lawsuit challenging the country's tough tobacco packaging regulations. The claim was brou...

(Reuters) -- Daisy Oehlers and Bryce Fredriksz, a Dutch couple in their early 20s, were sitting near the left wing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on their way to a holiday in Bali when "high-energy objects" -- as offic...

Tens of thousands marched through Warsaw Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the anniversary of Polish independence, and for the fourth consecutive year the procession erupted in violence. Riot police in the Polish capital us...

Memories of his own service in Vietnam and the destructive nature of combat are never far from the mind of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, the first former enlisted man to lead the Pentagon.

Opposition politicians walk out on talks with the government designed to establish a bipartisan commitment to renewable energy in Australia.