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Family reaches out after claims aid worker was buried beneath rubble of building hit by Jordanian warplane in Syria.

New anti-terror measures will see 10-year jail sentences introduced in Ireland for anybody convicted of promoting terrorism.

A prosecutor says a 19-year-old who uses the online name "Famed God" is jailed in Las Vegas pending transfer in custody to Illinois on felony charges stemming from a false 911 report of a murder at a Naperville home.

A painting of two Tahitian girls by the French artist Gauguin is sold for nearly $300m, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold.

Putin, Merkel and Hollande agree on drafting of blueprint that would include proposals from Ukraine's Poroshenko.

A rare Ferrari sports car that was found rusting in a French farmhouse under a pile of old magazines sells for 14.2m euros at auction.

US indictment alleges 6 Bosnian immigrants supplied money, equipment to overseas terrorists

Police said he resisted but his girlfriend found a tape that showed otherwise.

Follow free diver Guillaume Nery as he floats effortlessly thru the raging currents of the South Pacific.

"Every little girl dreams of that white dress, of her wedding night," says Hanan, her voice starting to waver. "I have been deprived of that."

(Reuters) - Six people have been charged with providing money and equipment including U.S. military uniforms to foreign fighters joining al Qaeda, Nusra Front and Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the U.S. Justice Departm...

More motorists are smoking marijuana on the road than ever before, according to new data released on Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The agency state...

The parents of a US aid worker captured by IS appeal to the group to protect their daughter following claims she has been killed.

The Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, orders the takeover of a private supermarket chain by the state food agency.

New York health officials contested a finding by researchers who said they had found evidence in stations of the deadly disease that ravaged 14th-century Europe.

The U.S. military is trying to gather as much intelligence as it can about ISIS defenses in Mosul to make a key decision about whether it's necessary to recommend American ground troops accompany Iraqi forces on the loom...

Knowing that the toddler needed immediate help, the Virginia dispatcher didn't give it a second thought

A joint investigation by law enforcement officials helped take down a North Side drug operation that crossed into Evanston and Skokie and netted about $2.5 million over the course of the investigation, police said.

Zoe Purvis, makeup artist to the rich, leads financiers' and magnates' spouses on organising committee of Black and White Ball to boost election coffers For a party that is sometimes accused of receiving disproportionate...

SEATTLE -- The King County prosecutor’s office says five Juanita High School students have been charged with second-degree attempted rape of a special education student. The Seattle Times reports the students...

Painting of two Tahitian women by an artist whose work won little or no acclaim in his lifetime is sold for nearly $300m Everyone has their price, so the saying goes, and it appears that almost $300m (£200m) was the rig...

Northern California firefighters rescue horse stuck in a outdoor bathtub used as food trough