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On Friday morning, a Japanese soldier conducting a drill came across Yamato Tanooka, the 7-year-old missing in the woods for nearly a week after his parents left him behind as punishment for throwing rocks. Yamato Tanook...

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Toxicology tests for Prince concluded that the entertainer died from an accidental overdose of the opioid fentanyl, according to a report on his death by the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office.Sponsored: Drivers With No T...

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Donald Trump travels to the UK later this month to officially open his luxury golf course in Scotland, a break from his blitzkrieg campaign that carries risks and opportunities.

A former UCLA graduate student killed his estranged wife in Minnesota before driving to Los Angeles and murdering one of his former professors before turning the gun on himself, authorities said Thursday.

University of Iowa instructor Christina Cooke used to worry about getting a bad review or a complaint to the department head if she had a problematic student.

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Before it happened to me, I never truly understood how awful chemo could be: no description can do it justice. But there are ways to ease its horrors that feature in none of the official advice, and I want everyone to kn...

In presentencing mitigation, defence lawyer says British paedophile deserves credit for enormity of his confession A British man who admitted to an eight-year campaign of sexual abuse against Malaysian babies and childre...

Four bodies were recovered and 340 people rescued Friday after a boat carrying migrants across the Mediterranean Sea sank south of the Greek island of Crete, authorities said. …

New 'in-ground traffic-light technology' system to be trialled in Sydney in the hope of cutting down on accidents Traffic lights are being installed in pavements in Sydney to prevent accidents caused by pedestrians distr...

U.N. officials have retreated from a call by a group of world powers for the United Nations to act unilaterally to ship food by air to besieged Syrians

A Zimbabwean circus acrobat who infected his girlfriend with HIV through frequent unprotected sex has been given a suspended sentence after appealing against a conviction of deliberately passing on the virus that causes ...

The IOC announced Friday that they will compete in Rio this summer under the Olympic flag.

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Judges and prosecutors from around the world are pledging to crack down on human trafficking and help victims of modern-day slavery in the latest Vatican initiative to draw attention to the problem and rally resources to...

Judges and prosecutors from around the world are pledging to crack down on human trafficking and help victims of modern-day slavery in the latest Vatican initiative to draw attention to the problem and rally resources to...

The man behind Britain's most notorious gun-smuggling operation, involving £100,000-worth of weapons, is jailed for 35 years

Force blamed for 60 percent of child deaths and injuries in 2015 for inclusion in list which also features Houthis.