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A former Royal Marine swindled £49,000 in benefits by claiming he was too injured to walk while he was working as a bodyguard in the Middle East.

Not since Lena Baker, an African-American convicted of murder in Randolph County, has Georgia executed a woman. The state is scheduled to snap that 70-year streak on Wednesday.

These photographers used forgotten photos to create their own story of the American west

'American Sniper' trial expected to resume Tuesday in Texas, weather permitting

A Palestinian official says Israeli troops have shot and killed a Palestinian during an overnight raid in the West Bank.

"The promise of an Islamist utopia" entices young girls to join global jihad

An American mom finds some surprising habits

In his new sitcom, Paul Whitehouse plays multiple mental-health patients - from an agoraphobic to an obese mummy's boy. He talks to Maureen Paton Maguire about therapy, heart surgery - and why Johnny Depp can get lost As...

A suicide bomb attack has killed more than a dozen people in Potiskum, north-eastern Nigeria, reports say.

A single mother of four from a small North Carolina town came forward Monday as one of three winners in a huge Powerball jackpot drawn earlier this month.

Russian president dismisses "apocalyptic scenario" that would lead to all-out war with neighbour.

In recent days, thousands of Egyptians have fled Libya through the border crossing at Sallum -- an exodus triggered by the release of a video showing the execution of 21 Coptic Christians by the Islamic State group -- Ag...

Gas poisoning in illegal Chinese gold mine kills 3, sickens 6

New report says at least 165 executions were carried out in ISIL-controlled areas in late 2014.

Every year, joint military exercises between the two countries it considers its greatest enemies provoke a blustery reaction from North Korea. What can we expect in 2015?

This essay is excerpted from Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It, by Marc Goodman, published by Doubleday.

Cuba's annual cigar festival opens in the capital Havana - with American visitors able to take cigars home legally for the first time in decades.

An online and telephone scheme has been launched to match dementia researchers with members of the public who want to take part in studies.

In helping to resolve a longshore standoff, the President showed that he's learned from history

The head of the National Security Agency expressed deep concerns about terrorists' ability to avoid NSA surveillance, explaining that Edward Snowden's revelations of surveillance techniques and capabilities have had a "m...

The Islamic State group plans to open two children schools in Syria for the families of its foreign fighters, where most lessons will be taught in English rather than the native Arabic dialect. The two schools - one for ...

Kids in Egypt are staging mock ISIS-style be-headings with wooden sticks as they play-act the executions of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians.