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WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called Sunday for civil disobedience to undermine the Supreme Court's ruling last week upholding same-sex marriage throughout the country. Invoking Dr. Martin...

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Detroit mom pleads guilty to killing 2 kids whose bodies were found in home freezer

Turkish police fire water cannon, rubber pellets and tear gas to disperse marchers at a gay pride event in Istanbul.

Tama was appointed stationmaster at the Kishi station in western Japan in 2007.

Iceland fisheries ministry issues whalers with a quota of 154 fin whales in defiance of 1986 ban and more than 700,000 signatures against the hunt Icelandic whaling boats have left port to begin the 2015 whaling season, ...

On Sunday, a North Carolina prison worker was charged with helping a convicted murderer escape from the Brown Creek Correctional Institution in Polkton, North Carolina. Escaped inmate Kristopher McNeil was serving 14 yea...

India's Prime Minister has led the campaign to boost the standing of women in India's highly patriarchal society

The director of a school in the eastern Indian state of Bihar is killed in a mob lynching over the deaths of two of his students.

Daredevils in Western Australia have been braving waves as tall as 18 metres - more than five storeys - as a swell caused by a low-pressure system over the Indian Ocean swept the coast. One surfer broke his leg in Margar...

In dissent from Monday's Supreme Court ruling to uphold the use of a death penalty drug, Justice Sonia Sotomayor likened the drug to methods of medieval torture, including the burning of heretics at the stake and the slo...

Thousands are fleeing fighting between the Islamic State group and Syrian army in the city of Hassakeh

Seven Britons among group of 12 studying medicine in Khartoum who flew to Turkey in reported attempt to join Islamic State Seven Britons are among a group of students who have travelled to Turkey in what is believed to b...

Justices strike down new rules for coal-fired power plants in major setback for Obama administration and Environmental Protection Agency The US supreme court struck down new rules for America's biggest air polluters on M...

A car bomb killed Egypt's top prosecutor on Monday, ripping through his convoy in a Cairo neighborhood, in the first assassination of a top official in the country in a quarter century, marking an apparent escalation by ...

The Supreme Court upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal injection executions Monday, as two dissenting justices said for the first time that they think it's "highly likely" that the death penalty itself is unc...

A fourth man is convicted of historical sexual abuse against children in Wrexham during the 1980s.

An anti-abortion protester convicted of harassing a Marie Stopes clinic director wins her appeal.

It has swept away old Portuguese colonial laws in a victory for campaigners for gay rights in Africa.

Atlanta police say they've apprehended a suspect accused of stealing a hearse with a body inside.

The last time family members heard from John Stocker and his wife, Janet, the couple raved about their beach holiday in Tunisia.

Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale, won a Nobel Prize in 2013 for his analysis of asset prices, and his name is half of the much-watched Case-Shiller Index of housing prices. It turns out, he's not too enthusiastic abo...