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French police have launched an investigation into the death of a Disneyland Paris worker after his body was found in a haunted house. They confirmed they are investigating the death of a male technician in the Phantom Ma...

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CEO Bob Iger's assumed successor will step down next month

Air France said it would allow female cabin crew and pilots to opt out of flying routes to Tehran after some staff said they did not want to be forced to cover their hair when in Iran. Air France, part of the Franco-Dutc...

Police on the Greek island of Lesbos have begun placing migrants and refugees on boats bound to Turkey, the first to be deported under a European Union plan to limit the amount of migration to Europe

Qaryatain was a key bastion in central Syria for the group

Panama's president says his government will cooperate "vigorously" with any judicial investigation arising from the leak of a vast trove of information on the offshore financial dealings of the world's rich and famous. �...

A massive leak of documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, dubbed the Panama Papers, is blowing the lid off of widespread international corruption connected to offshore tax shelters. A dozen world leaders, i...

Russian investigators say the body of an American student has been found on the outskirts of a Siberian village, a week after he vanished from a guesthouse in the middle of the night. …

Gaza fishermen have returned from a 15-hour sail after Israel expanded the fishing zone from six to nine nautical miles

Hundreds of people, including environmental activists and fishermen, have protested in Sri Lanka's capital to demand the government halt a $1.5 billion Chinese-funded port city project

Abu Firas was one of at least 20 militants killed

Lines of people from women holding babies to school age children, with a hand held up to show they're for hire, are a ubiquitous sight on the Indonesian capital's busiest roads during rush hour. …

The century-old patent file for the Wright Brothers' pioneering airplane--a file containing one of history's greatest patent applications--has been found 36 years after it disappeared, The Washington Post reported Sunday...

In late February, Erica Flores Dunahoo and her husband, Stanley Hoskins, were turned out of an RV park in Tupelo, Mississippi, after the owner found out the husband is black. Dunahoo told The Clarion-Ledger that the owne...

Police on the Greek island of Lesbos began placing refugees on boats bound to Turkey, the first to be deported under a European Union plan to limit the amount of migration to Europe.

Donald Trump walked away from the March 22 Republican primary in Arizona with a decisive victory and all of the state's pledged delegates, but Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is reportedly doing his best to cut into that lead if thi...

A global leader, the company has become famous for its expertise in creating shell companies—and infamous for its associations.

Gregg Allman, Peter Frampton and others are set to play the Laid Back Festival in July in Chicago, one of five American cities hosting the one-day events, Allman announced Monday. The festival is scheduled for 4 p.m. Jul...

A beeping yellow Bobcat woke from a slumber at the corner of Addison and Sheffield, preparing to move some pallets loaded with materials, before the engine went silent. A few more turns of the key proved futile, promptin...

Keith Hickman left his Calumet City home at 6 a.m. Monday, taking two buses to make sure he wasn't late for his court date on a burglary charge at the main Cook County courthouse at 26th Street and California Avenue in C...

The awful transformation of Bernie Sanders has been absolutely breath stopping to see. Sanders has gone from a charming, engaging, provoking, and supremely principled Democratic presidential candidate to a scheming, conn...