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Ms. Tubman, who ferried thousands of slaves to freedom, will be just one among multiple depictions of women and civil rights leaders on new currency designs.

VERMILION, Ohio -- Authorities say a 15-year-old Ohio boy has been electrocuted while apparently attempting to conduct an experiment he saw on YouTube. The Sandusky Register reports that Erie County sheriff’s officials...

Swedish national, already charged over Brussels bombings, has also been charged over Paris attacks, says Belgian media Swedish national Osama Krayem, charged in connection with the Brussels bombings, has also been charge...

Authorities issued arrest warrants for five security agents in connection with the torture of a young woman that was caught on video, Mexican federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. …

The US Justice Department opens a criminal investigation into tax avoidance schemes exposed by the Panama Papers.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and the Flint water investigation team are expected to announce the first criminal charges Wednesday in the tainted water case, according to a source briefed on the investigation.

The government has paid more than £18m over the past four years in compensation to people held unlawfully in immigration detention, Freedom of Information figures show.

Her capture and trial became a rallying point for Ukrainians at home and abroad

At least 685 people around the world were executed on drug-related offenses in 2015

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Maurizio Cattelan's working gold loo at the New York museum is a pungent symbol of the extreme price of art objects, and our love of looking at them While the poor get poorer, the rich even get to do their crap on a gold...

Catholic Church authorities in eastern Poland have denounced nationalist views and apologized after a radical extreme-right organization held a Mass in a regional cathedral

Romania's former president says he is being investigated on suspicion of money laundering related to a real estate deal reached when he was mayor of Bucharest

President Barack Obama opens a brief trip to Saudi Arabia with a one-on-one meeting with King Salman in Riyadh

Met launches investigation following claims that officer planted incendiary device in Harrow Debenhams store in 1987 Police have opened an investigation following allegations that an undercover officer who had infiltrate...

The male tiger named Rama died of heart failure at a notorious zoo where hundreds of animals have perished in recent years.

American forces have helped locate small groups of the 276 girls abducted by Boko Haram two years ago, but officials say a rescue might put the captives at risk.

Court says mass killer's prison conditions breach article in European convention on human rights prohibiting degrading treatment Anders Breivik's human rights have been violated during his imprisonment for terrorism and ...

The former guerrilla fighters who founded Cuba's single-party government will hold power for years to come after a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress kept President Raul Castro and his hardline deputy in the top lea...

Taiwanese legal officials are in Beijing for talks on the recent deportations of Taiwanese wire fraud suspects to China from third countries that have caused new friction between the sides. …

Ecuadoreans began burying loved ones felled by the country's deadliest earthquake in decades, while hopes faded that more survivors will be found. …

In the universe we inhabit, free-floating worlds -- wanderers in the truest sense of the word -- are dime a dozen. Although scientists are still not sure where these objects -- which may very well outnumber planets with ...