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Sri Lanka's president said he dissolved Parliament and called elections to avoid possible violence

Institutional blocks hamper change at every turn in America - and make me see the value of the British political system Perhaps the biggest thing I've learned since I moved to Washington DC earlier this year is that demo...

A video shows Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith saying: "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row"

Frank Sinatra may be best remembered for his velvety voice, booze-fueled partying and associations with some of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. But he was also a romantic husband to Barbara, his wife of 22 years, ...

A young woman who became pregnant after being raped by her stepfather is to go on trial in El Salvador accused of attempting to murder her baby, under the country's strict abortion laws.

Several fires burning in Southern and Northern California have killed at least 31 people and destroyed about 7,000 buildings. These wind-driven fires have burned 196,000 acres, Chief Scott Jalbert of the California Depar...

A firefighter battling the devastating blazes ripping through California was caught on video saving an American flag and draping it over the mailbox of a gutted home. The touching footage shared by CBS News shows the fir...

When she was called on, Berklee College of Music student Sabrina Bondar, 19, could only muster, "Dude, what the [expletive]?"

Leicester City supporters have criticised fans who are trying to sell special items made in memory of the club's late chairman on eBay.

Timelapse video shows the destructive Woolsey Fire spreading into Malibu as seen from Venice Beach, about 20 miles away.

The man at the center of the scandal at the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in literature arrived Monday at a Swedish appeals court in handcuffs, hoping his rape …

Survivors and loved ones of Paradise, California, and nearby communities, devastated by fire, now are tortured by uncertainty about the missing.        

Hania Aguilar was kidnapped outside her home on the morning of Nov. 5.

A defense lawyer says a journalist who was taken away by unidentified security forces over the weekend has been charged with possessing "provocative literature." Nasrullah Khan, a subeditor for a …

A professor at a community college in Connecticut has been placed on paid administrative leave after giving a Nazi salute during a meeting earlier this month, university officials said. Charles Meyrick, an assistant prof...

More women and girls in poor countries are using modern contraception, signifying progress in efforts to involve women in family planning, according to a report released Monday. The number of …

Saudi leaders had discussed assassinating enemies long before a journalist was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, The New York Times reports.        

Six days after polls closed in the 2018 midterm elections, some major races remain undecided as anxious politicians express concern about the delay.        

British Prime Minister Theresa May says the West's response to the nerve-agent poisoning of a former spy has seriously hurt Russia's intelligence capability. May's office says she'll urge countries "to …

Secret data-sharing deal dropped after legal action by Migrants' Rights Network The Home Office has abandoned a controversial "hostile environment" scheme using NHS data to track down patients believed to be breaching im...

A British couple with neo-Nazi views who named their son after Adolf Hitler was convicted Monday of membership in an outlawed far-right group. A jury at Birmingham Crown Court in …

Florida has ordered statewide recounts for Senate and gubernatorial races amid alleged ballot fraud in Broward County.