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An 11-year-old is among more than 600 girls under the age of 16 in Northern Ireland given contraceptive implants in the last five years.

BOSTON — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had a variety of extremist materials on his computer, including an issue of the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire with an article entitled “Make a...

Fighting escalated in Yemen on Thursday after an unidentified warplane attacked the presidential palace in Aden and forces loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi used tanks to fight their way into the airport and a ne...

Warrant: Fugitive Los Angeles police officer charged in killing fled to Texas with help of dad

Mexico mining industry groups says 3 miners kidnapped in Guerrero state were found slain

Local and federal authorities were investigating Thursday the death of a black man in southwest Mississippi who was found hanging from a tree.

William Nobrega was broke and living on his mother's couch six months ago. Now he's at the head of a growing insurance company valued at $170 million. This is how he did it.

Support for hosting the 2024 Olympics in Boston has fallen month-over-month for the second straight month, a new poll from WBUR and MassINC found. Only 36 percent of 504 registered voters in the Boston area said they sup...

A fired LAPD officer charged with murder remains at large, and a federal warrant says he fled to Texas with assistance from his father. Federal warrant alleges rookie LA officer accused of murder fled to Texas with his d...

California Governor Jerry Brown and top lawmakers on Thursday announced a $1 billion emergency legislative package to deal with the state's devastating multi-year drought. The proposed legislation would appropriate more ...

'Solidarity with Tunisia' That was the chant outside the Tunisian embassy in Paris, where some 200 people gathered to show their support for the North African country and former French colony. It comes one day after gunm...

The White House said on Thursday that it is evaluating its path forward, following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments that he was backing away from a two-state solution. White House spokesman Josh Earne...

A Colorado woman was due in court on Thursday accused of cutting a fetus out of another woman's womb after luring her with a Craigslist ad, then taking it to a hospital and claiming to have had a miscarriage. Dynel Catre...

The husband of the Colorado woman accused of luring a pregnant woman to her home and stealing her baby told police that he thought his wife was pregnant.

The Islamic State group has said it carried out Wednesday's attack in Tunisia in which 23 people were killed, most of them foreign tourists.

A convicted sexual predator found hiding in a secret room in a house in Kendall County recently was sentenced to 53 years in prison Thursday.

US data shows ice at the smallest size ever recorded in winter since observations began in 1979.

The bodies of five dead babies have been found in a house in southwestern France, according to reports.

Harry Kirkham, 16, has died in hospital after being struck by the patrol car while crossing a road near a church on Wednesday A teenager has died after he was hit by a police car in Birmingham. Harry Kirkham, 16, was str...

The BBC has seen evidence which suggests that Rio de Janeiro's polluted waters will not be clean enough for the 2016 Olympic Games.

In interview, Israel PM denies changing his stance on two-state solution during successful re-election bid.

Legislation in the Brazilian city - which officials believe to be the first of its kind - was approved last week and is expected to be signed into effect in next 20 days Latin America's largest city is poised to pass leg...