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BETHESDA, Md. -- A Maryland police officer went undercover dressed as a homeless man to catch people who were using their phones while driving. Cpl. Patrick Robinson went undercover Tuesday morning equipped with a police...

Two Iranian poets are facing 99 lashes each for shaking hands with people of the opposite sex in one of the latest examples of harsh punishments meted out against writers and artists by Iran's judiciary, according to hum...

Two jail attacks in recent weeks have freed scores of militants

A major aerospace company won a huge contract to build a new line of combat aircraft

About 1,000 displaced residents of the Bikinia Atoll want to relocate to the United States due to rising sea level.

The first report of an American soldier wounded in combat against ISIS terrorists came in March of this year. Since then, publicly available data and interviews with Pentagon leaders suggest that a total of six American ...

Yet another Saudi prince is being accused of royally screwing up. Prince Abdel Mohsen bin Walid bin Abdulaziz was detained Monday along for allegedly trying to fly two tons of drugs out of Lebanon aboard his private plan...

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced Wednesday morning that he will support the tentative budget deal reached by Congressional leaders and the White House to raise the debt limit. While Ryan, who is the Republican Party's t...

It’s anything but the cargo hold for this portly pampered pooch. American Airlines put on the dog for Hank, who was rolled aboard a flight on his pillow-topped cart and sat in first class with his owner, Kari Whitman, ...

The move is meant to bring order to the flow of people entering the country

Israel's prime minister is lashing out at an Arab lawmaker for flaunting a directive and visiting the sensitive Jerusalem holy site that is the key issue in the recent round of violence. …

LAS VEGAS -- That’s his niece, Albert Ake said of the woman photographed in promotional photos featuring a chamber the size of a phone booth bubbling with a cottony cloud of liquid nitrogen at a Las Vegas cryotherapy c...

BOSTON -- A Salem, Massachusetts, woman who calls herself a witch priestess is taking a self-proclaimed warlock to court over accusations of harassment. Lori Sforza, who runs a Salem witchcraft shop and leads a pagan chu...

Lucas Debargue - a largely self-taught pianist from France - talks to the BBC's Lucy Williamson about his route to musical recognition.

Tents and blankets are desperately needed as the death toll rises to 385

Shoppers will have their change rounded to the nearest five cents in a bid to reduce the number of low value coins in circulation.

The Taliban have overrun a district in northern Afghanistan's Takhar province, and intense battles were underway Wednesday as government forces fought to retake it, an official said. …

The event is billed as a chance for indigenous groups from as far as Ethiopia and Mongolia to test their mettle.

In a speech in London, Mr. Abbott offered Australia's tough policies as a model. "This means turning boats around, for people coming by sea," he said.

Noor Wali was sitting inside his shoe shop in northwestern Pakistan when he heard a loud roaring sound and saw cracks appear in the walls.

Chimney sweeping, salted fish and fracking appear on list compiled by International Agency for Research on Cancer After Monday's bombshell news from the World Health Organisation that bacon, ham and sausages are carcinog...

Further details emerge about Britons who died when a whale-watching boat sank off the Canadian coast.