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Charalampos Kydonakis' pictures flirt with the ironic and border on the insane

When it came time to identify a suspect in Saturday night's explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, investigators turned to several of the 8,000 cameras that constantly record what's happening across New York...

World leaders gather at the United Nations for their annual meeting Tuesday with an array of global crises that desperately need solutions, topped by the Syrian conflict, escalating attacks around the world by Islamic ex...

A day after the dramatic manhunt and shootout led to the capture of the man suspected of planting bombs in New York and New Jersey, more questions than answers remain.

It was a sort of Woodstock Colombian style. But there were no drugs or alcohol, and instead of barefoot hippies frolicking to rock music those jamming out are leftist rebels in knee-high rubber boots. …

A group of independent experts called Tuesday for the creation of an U.N. panel to deepen a probe of "gross human rights violations" in Burundi, pinning most of the blame on President Pierre Nkurunziza's government and i...

Police in Nepal say small bombs have exploded outside two schools in the capital, but no injuries and only minor damage were reported. Unexploded bombs were found at five other schools in the city. …

The "world's saddest" polar bear could have a new home if a British zoo gets its way.

The daughter of a runaway British lord has become one of the highest profile victims of the Philippines' war on drugs.

The violence comes amid growing fears that an election delay could lead to prolonged unrest in the DRC

Poor President Obama. He had a perfect plan -- to use his final UN speech Tuesday to secure his reputation for putting Globalism First. He would preen to the assembled autocrats and bureaucrats about forcing America to t...

Shawn Grate was charged last week with murder and kidnapping

An attorney for a white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man says the man ignored officers' commands, kept touching his pocket and was reaching through the window of his SUV when he was killed

A federal jury has awarded $11.9 million to the wife and family of a man who killed himself in a Pennsylvania jail

Aid to Syria has been suspended indefinitely.

South Africa's deputy president says he visited Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu in a hospital and found the retired archbishop to be "jovial as usual" while being treated for an infection.

A city official in northwestern Poland says that Nazi-era newspapers, coins, documents and Hitler's "Mein Kampf" have been found in a "time capsule" that was buried in 1934 in the foundations of a Nazi training center

People in the remote Myanmar community where soldiers killed at least five unarmed civilians say they are disappointed by the punishment, even though convictions of military personnel for human rights violations are virt...

The Latest on the high-level U.N. General Assembly meetings (all times local): …

President Ian Khama of Botswana said on Tuesday he had ordered the arrest and deportation of U.S. pastor Steven Anderson, who was banned from neighboring South Africa last week over his anti-gay views. Anderson, of the F...

Six armed men have held up a bus carrying a Venezuelan first-division soccer team. …

A new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) out Tuesday revealed that the wage gap between black and white Americans isn't shrinking -- it's widening. "The finding that stands out the most, our major result, is t...