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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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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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They fled war, and have no country that is truly home. Some of the world's millions of refugees will join the Olympics' first-ever Refugee Team.

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.

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...

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

Police say rebels in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir have ambushed a convoy of Indian paramilitary soldiers, killing at least two and injuring four others. …

Authorities in Germany are monitoring almost 500 Islamic extremists they believe pose a potential security threat, officials said Friday, a day after the arrest of three men suspected of planning to carry out an attack i...

Protesters hurled eggs, threw punches, and intimidated supporters.

Nineteen people died, including 11 when cooking gas cylinders blew up, during clashes between police and residents being evicted from illegally occupied government land in northern India, police said Friday. …

After several days of heavy rain in France, the Louvre is taking precautions to keep art safe from possible flooding. Officials say the waters of the Seine are expected to rise, reaching their peak on Friday, CNN reports...

Hillary Clinton delivered what her campaign billed as a major foreign-policy speech, but it turned into an unrelenting bashing of Donald Trump. Speaking in San Diego, Clinton denounced her presumed GOP rival as "temperam...