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It was the jump of their lives. Two sisters took scary leaps from the second floor of their burning apartment building in Sandy Springs, Ga., and thankfully came away with...

Death toll from accident to Pakistan army train rises to 17 as divers recover more bodies

Explosion at a chemical plant in South Korea kills 6 workers

"The reactions ranged from blank horror and rage to despair and bitterness"

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Authorities say a Fort Bragg soldier has been charged with creating a panic at a North Carolina mall after appearing there with an assault rifle and other...

Many of the passengers were screaming in panic

This is the second such fatality in the U.S. to occur in the last year

Per the calculations of economist Mark Perry at the American Enterprise Institute, the Obama White House maintains a 15.8 percent wage gap, with women earning 84.2 cents for every dollar male staffers take home. Perry us...

Solar Impulse 2, expected to land in Hawaii around 14:30 GMT on Friday, breaks longest non-stop solo flight record.

PARIS -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has failed in a bid to win asylum in France. Assange wrote a letter to French President Francois Hollande published in Le Monde on...

Where ISIS goes to recruit | Pipeline of radicalized young men

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Oil and gas giant Shell is expected to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic within the next two weeks.

New evidence is exposing Russia's deepening role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, suggesting Vladimir Putin may be preparing to gobble up more territory undeterred by NATO -- as a new U.S. military document highlights...

Six months on from the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the mayor of Paris says the city has recovered from its ordeal, even if its ripples are still felt. Now she wants to take on the city's wealth divide - and says she will be j...

A special ceremony of remembrance will be held at the scene of last Friday's killings in Sousse, Tunisia.

In Seattle, famous for boom-and-bust since the Gold Rush, some fret over Amazon's weight

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes looks into what's behind Japan's high suicide statistics.

Malaysian fund denies reports it provided $700 million to prime minister ahead of 2013 polls

New government measures are taken to mitigate counterfeit trade in expired and toxic medicines.

Flags to be lowered to half-mast at noon as bodies of 30 Britons continue to be repatriated and counter-terror authorities contribute to investigation Britain will remember the victims of the Tunisia terror attack with a...

At least two people have been killed by a strong earthquake that hit the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Friday, China's official news agency Xinhua reported.