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A South Carolina high school teacher was arrested after allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student, authorities said Monday. Anna Elizabeth Jeanette Patton, 22, lured the teenager by sending several steamy messages ...

Barbican, LondonWang's crisp and agile piano highlights Capuçon's warm and intense cello as the star pair perform the concert of their CD A pair of stars don't necessarily make for a great musical duo, but something see...

The difficulties of commemorating Ireland's complex past makes it clear reconciliation must be agreed on, not imposed The sense that Irish society would struggle to contain a decade of centenaries marking significant eve...

This is the moment a family came together to take down a man trying to kidnap their 6-year-old relative. The startling surveillance footage, released by the Los Angeles Police Department, shows the would-be abductor abou...

The White House celebrated the completion of its 100th mile of new wall along the southern border last week.

More than 100 American firefighters are in Australia to help get the country's massive bushfires under control. So far, nearly 28 million acres have burned, an area almost the size of Louisiana. That's about 14 times the...

Bushfires ravaging Australia have provided a foretaste of the kinds of conditions that could become normal unless the world moves rapidly to curb emissions of the greenhouse gases driving global warming, scientists have ...

Warren responded Monday evening to reports that Sanders said he disagreed with her that a woman could win in 2020 against Trump, disagreeing with Sanders' account

A high school basketball coach in California was arrested on suspicion of groping a 14-year-old female student, authorities said. Elijah Kim, 30, a junior varsity boys basketball coach at Sunny Hills High School in Fulle...

After the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, the thousands of people involved in rescue-and-cleanup efforts were exposed to carcinogens and other toxins as they breathed in contaminated air and dug through industrial ru...

The former CEO of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, was once one of Japan's most respected business people. Now, as the Guardian's Justin McCurry reports, he's on the run in Lebanon after fleeing the country to escape corruption cha...

'Real deterrence' strategy - which also apply to Russia and China - is at odds with earlier assertion that general was killed due to imminent threat to US The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has said Qassem Suleimani...

Six tourists were busted in Peru for allegedly defecating in a sacred temple at Machu Picchu, authorities said. They face up to four years in prison each if found guilty.

A California mother says she was beaten bloody -- and left with a broken nose -- by a group of teenage girls who had been bullying her daughter. Parents Maria Guadalupe Jimenez and Eder Rojas went to James Logan High Sch...

A South Carolina wildlife rehabilitation group is caring for a baby opossum beaten blind with a golf club last week. The organization, Wildlife Rehab of Greenville, shared the awful story to their Facebook page last Wedn...

Rank-and-file senators and party leaders made clear on Monday that even if they wanted to pursue dismissal, the votes simply were not there to succeed -- at least not at the outset of the trial.

No plan for a public fund to sound bells on UK's exit from EU, despite PM's assertions An energetic if perhaps niche campaign to ensure the chimes of Big Ben sound at the moment of Brexit on 31 January appears doomed aft...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets with her caucus Tuesday morning ahead of a potential vote naming impeachment managers and triggering the Senate trial.

Whole families were buried in the Pakistani-controlled portion of the disputed territory, and rescuers are risking their own lives.

The country's LGBT community has increasingly been targeted in recent years.

Two police officers in Ramapo, New York, freed a deer after it became tangled in a soccer net.       

Mustafa Kassem, an Egyptian-born man from New York, died after six-year battle against what he said was wrongful imprisonment Egypt said on Tuesday it would investigate the death in custody of a US citizen who went on a ...