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Sudden blanket ban on websites considered a 'social nuisance' is met with anger online and triggers debate on censorship and freedom Indian authorities have moved to block more than 800 pornography websites in the first ...

101 of those freed are children

Around 4 a.m. in October 2010, bus driver William Allan was starting his shift in Queens, New York, when something caught his eye: a small boy, shivering in only his underwear, wandering alone in the street.

Four people in New York City have died from Legionnaires' disease. Here's everything to know about the outbreak:

"A breast is not a weapon," protesters chanted

Thursday marks the 70th anniversary of the first use of atomic weapons, when the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit by atom bombs that ultimately claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and left tens of t...

The new regulations should boost renewable energy production, but may raise your power bill

SAN FRANCISCO

Malaysia asks Indian Ocean islands around Reunion to search for plane debris after wing part confirmed from Boeing 777.

The problem with most civil rights movements is that they don't pay very well.

Jury resumes death penalty deliberations for Colorado theater shooter James Holmes

NY's attorney general to use new power as special prosecutor to investigate woman's jail death

Sen. Schumer, comedian Amy Schumer team up to call for tighter gun control

New York-based art dealer due in court over sale of hundreds of items police claim were stolen from country's temples The police officers had waited since mid-morning. Hidden among the bustle of an Indian market, they wa...

At least five people have been rushed to hospital after a crowded tourist bus crashed into a tree in Bloomsbury, central London. The roof of the bus was ripped off during the collision on Monday afternoon. The Metropolit...

The ricotta was not really ricotta, if you catch my drift. The BBC reports that 11 men were arrested in Italy for their connections to the fugitive head of the Sicilian mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro. Denaro, who has been ...

Following the outrage over the killing of Cecil the lion by an American dentist, wildlife officials in Zimbabwe announced on Sunday an American gynecologist illegally killed a lion during a hunt in April. In a news relea...

You've heard of Cecil's dentist killer, but for many other lions, elephants, rhinos and tens of thousands of other exotic animals, internet marketplaces like eBay and Craigslist are the biggest threat If you live in the ...

Free speech advocates fear more impunity in latest Mexico journalist killing

A simple urine test which could detect pancreatic cancer much earlier than at present is developed by scientists.

WASHINGTON

It's vacation season for much of the world, with travelers flocking to airports to jet off for some hard-earned R&R.