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Logging will now be banned across 85 percent of the rainforest in western Canada

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Three inmates who teamed up to pull off an intricate escape from a California jail stuck together and eluded authorities for nearly a week. Then authorities said their alliance began to unravel over ...

"I love Messi," young Murtaza Ahmadi says

WASHINGTON -- The FBI has launched a Facebook page in Farsi to solicit tips on the whereabouts of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran nine years ago. The new site, which went live in the last few...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Hundreds of southeastern Mississippi citizens received jury summons that incorrectly instructed them to call a sex hotline. Multiple news outlets report that at least 350 jury summons with the incorr...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti’s outgoing president has released a brash pop song jeering at his critics and aiming sexually suggestive lyrics at his main target, an award-winning female journalist. In an unusual move ...

PITTSBURGH -- Authorities say a Pennsylvania man tried to sell drugs in a Pittsburgh traffic court. Officials say 35-year-old Christopher Durkin spoke to a man in court after he appeared Monday to face charges of driving...

A prominent Seattle cancer advocate and fundraiser has been accused of lying about her breast cancer diagnoses while she raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, KOMO News reported. Tracy ...

The G-men join the federal investigation into the city's lead contamination

A cold front and possible snowstorm was bearing down on central Iowa Monday night, but it would take more than weather to stop 102-year-old Ruline Steininger from caucusing.

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Asunta Fong Yang was adopted as a baby by a wealthy Spanish couple. Aged 12, she was found dead beside a country road. Not long after, her mother and father were arrested One day in late June 2001, Rosario Porto, a petit...

A Taiwanese county has built an enormous glass shoe as a tribute to local women who suffered from a debilitating foot disease. …

The parents of a black New York City teenager killed by a white police officer four years ago Tuesday want the officer fired

King Abdullah says people in Jordan are at "boiling point" due to the suffering caused by the influx of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees.

All the talk about the power of insurgency in 2016 turned out to be true in Iowa. If either party was expecting the conventional party candidates to stop the tumult, they didn't.

The head of the National Crime Agency was appointed amid serious concerns about her performance as Surrey chief constable, BBC News learns.

Vast crowds of migrant workers stuck in Guangzhou's main railway station during journey home for Chinese new year Poor weather left at least 100,000 travellers stranded in a train station in southern China on Monday as t...

Pontiff warns Catholic brothers and sisters to bite their tongues rather than spread gossip and bemoans lack of people signing up for church life Pope Francis told gossip-loving priests and nuns to bite their tongues on ...