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A young woman who was savagely beaten and left scarred by her boyfriend is fighting back to live out her dream of becoming a beauty queen.

Census finds the country's minority population has risen to 37.9%

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Univision drops Miss USA pageant over Donald Trump's comments about Latinos

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act won the battle of opinions at the Supreme Court Thursday, but critics may win the battle of words. The 6-3 majority opinion in King v. Burwell upholds subsidies to millions of Americ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld subsidies for ObamaCare for states that did not set up their own exchanges.

The spotlight must be an uncomfortable position for intelligence organisations that would far prefer to remain in the shadows. But since Edward Snowden fled the United States in the summer of 2013, there has been an almo...

Donors pledge billions for recovery of quake-hit Nepal, still short by half of what's needed

Brussels summit will be first time head of government has taken floor to outline nation's conditions for staying in European Union At around 8 o'clock on Thursday evening David Cameron will take the European Union into u...

Researchers found it used as a noun in 1820, spelled "twirk"

A man is found of guilty of attempted murder for a racially-motivated attack on a trainee dentist with a machete and a hammer in a north Wales supermarket.

"Congress passed the Affordable Care act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the opinion.

Seán Brady tells Historical Abuse Inquiry in Northern Ireland that Catholic clerics kept investigations into Fr Brendan Smyth secret to protect church's 'good name' Senior figures in Ireland's Catholic church set up inq...

Gary Bartoszewski was taking a break at work when he saw the distressed mother duck.

In its five year history, Uber has made a lot of enemies. Some of its fiercest may be in Paris. Cabbies on Thursday blocked roads to and from Paris airports and disrupted traffic on a major highway in opposition of Uber�...

A hedgehog is rescued by firefighters after becoming firmly wedged in railings.

Proposals for system of mandatory quotas to share refugees across EU's 28 countries are rejected by leaders attending Brussels summit The national leaders of Europe have killed off plans for a new system of quotas in res...

The death toll from a heatwave in Pakistan's southern Sindh province has passed 1,000, reports say.

Islamic State militants set off car bombs in Kobani, where they had been driven out before by Kurdish guerrillas, and attacked the government-held city of Hasaka.

Kansas judge weighs nation's 1st ban on procedure opponents call 'dismemberment abortion'

Instagram back to normal in North Korea after week of warnings site had been blacklisted

Isis fighters launch car bomb attack against Kurdish forces that took control of Kobani, on Turkish border, earlier this year Islamic State fighters have re-entered the Syrian town of Kobani and are battling Kurdish mili...