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Authorities fear that ISIS will launch an "on-camera slaughter of major proportions" after kidnapping at least 300 Christians in Syria last week, a top US official told The Post. "What...

Tinder is taking an extra large swipe at the wallets of users 30 and over who sign up for TinderPlus, a premium service that the dating app rolled out today.

Grainy video broadcast on government-controlled TV in Russia.

The US Army's most senior general says he is "very concerned" about the impact spending cuts will have on the strength of the UK's armed forces.

While U.S. news outlets have devoted significant coverage to the controversy around Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress this week, media reports on the speech around the world have varied. The...

Via The Washington Post and Reddit comes a handy little graphic that succinctly visualizes how gerrymandering -- when political districts are unfairly mapped to manipulate elections -- can have such a significant impact:...

North Korea fires two short-range missiles into the sea as annual US-South Korea military exercises get under way, officials in Seoul say.

ISIS militants in northern Syria released 19 Assyrian Christian hostages Sunday, an activist group said.

A man is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a motorist is dragged along a motorway by his own stolen van.

A man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was stabbed in the head.

With fighting in eastern Ukraine, soccer team from Donetsk plays far from home

The Svalbard "Doomsday" seed vault, which protects the world's food crops, accepts its first consignment of seeds from forest tree species.

Seoul: North Korea test fires 2 short-range missiles ahead of US-South Korean military drills

The police warehouse 'black site' at the epicentre of public outcry over allegations of abuse and withheld rights is the site of a major demonstration Saturday. Military veterans, local organisers and supporters of the h...

Israel-Palestine conflict is no longer the magnetic centre of national struggles in the Middle East.

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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner says lawyer found dead in January, who had accused her of a cover-up, had in fact complimented her Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said on Sunday the prosecutor who h...

The White House slammed a full-page ad Sunday that appeared in The New York Times attacking National Security Adviser Susan Rice.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner defended her role in the investigation into the fatal bombing of a Jewish community center here in 1994, after a judge dismissed criminal allegations against her.

Theresa Suprenant, 22, of New Bedford, died at the scene.

Nina Pham says she is preparing to file a lawsuit.

In his first interview since Islamic State militants burned alive a Jordanian pilot, Jordan's King says any attempt by ISIS to intimidate the country has had the reverse effect.