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DENVER -- A single mother who vanished from western Colorado more than seven years ago led a double life as a paid escort with many unsavory clients, investigators say. Among...

Al-Shabaab militants hijacked a bus in Kenya Saturday and executed 28 passengers who were unable to recite a Quran passage. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said the attack was a bid by the Somali terrorist group to ignit...

Mexican investigators announced this week they had arrested a high-ranking police officer in the case of 43 students who have been missing since Sept. 26. César Nava González, the former chief of police in Cocula, a ci...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spent four hours talking with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul Saturday in what was seen as a fence-mending foray in the wake of Biden's remarks criticizing Turkey for not...

UN General Assembly askes Security Council to refer North Korea to the ICC in The Hague over alleged rights abuses.

ST. LOUIS -- One morning late last month, a St. Louis courtroom filled up with prosecutors, lawyers and press who wondered if they'd catch a glimpse of a vanished man.

CLEVELAND -- Police say a 12-year-old boy brandishing what turned out to be a fake gun at a Cleveland recreation center was shot and wounded by a responding officer. Cleveland’s...

Watercolour of Munich's old city hall, believed to be painted by late-Nazi leader, sold to anonymous Middle East buyer.

A new piece of malware called Regin is spying on people across industries. Why? Researchers aren't exactly sure

Doubts grow that Monday's deadline for a deal on Iran's nuclear programme will be met at talks in Vienna, as negotiators admit "big gaps" remain.

In the two months since the United States and coalition allies first launched airstrikes against ISIS targets inside of Syria, the missions have killed more than 900 people, nearly all militants, a monitoring group said ...

Muhammed Murdi Issa al Zahrani, was sent to Saudi Arabia on the recommendation of a United States government board that has been re-evaluating the need to continue holding some of Guantánamo's prisoners.

Stanley L. Cohen, who defended a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden against terrorism charges, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday for impeding the Internal Revenue Service.

A man at Boston Logan International Airport on Saturday took off his clothes in a womens' restroom and later ran out and assaulted an 84-year-old man, police said.

Election billed as first free and fair poll since independence pits new generation of politicians against old guard.

Italian and Libyan authorities say at least 796 people rescued from boats in distress while attempting perilous journey.

An uneasy quiet settled over Ferguson, Mo., on Saturday evening after another day without a decision from a grand jury on whether to bring charges against a white police officer for fatally shooting a black teen.

(Reuters) -- The U.S. pledged $135 million in additional aid for the victims of the Syrian Civil War Saturday, much of it to help the United Nations with a funding shortfall it had warned could force it to scale back foo...

The Missouri grand jury tasked with deciding whether to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown has yet to decide whether to indict him. It's one of the...

Two days after the man was shot and killed by a police officer in a housing project, critics of the New York Police Department demanded a thorough investigation into the shooting.

Opposition group boycotts first election since 2011 uprising as voting time is extended due to "high turnout".

Comprehensive accord appears unlikely, but hopes raised of framework agreement with technical details to be resolved later Senior politicians from around the world converged on Vienna on Sunday evening in the hope that n...