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Student sues university

Student sues university

Portland Jan 8, 2015 / 7:33 pm

A woman who says she was sexually assaulted by three University of Oregon basketball players has sued the school and head basketball coach Dana Altman. The suit...

Canadian dies in catamaran disaster

Canadian dies in catamaran disaster

Costa Rica Jan 8, 2015 / 6:28 pm

A Canadian is one three people who died after a catamaran carrying dozens of foreign tourists on a pleasure cruise capsized off Costa Rica on Thursday,...

French police detain 9 in attack

French police detain 9 in attack

France Jan 8, 2015 / 2:35 pm

Frightened yet defiant, French residents held a day of mourning Thursday for 12 people slain at a Paris newspaper. French police hunted for the two heavily...

Snow falls in Middle East

Snow falls in Middle East

Lebanon Jan 8, 2015 / 1:30 pm

Snow fell in parts of the Middle East on Wednesday as a powerful winter storm swept through the region, killing two Syrian refugees in Lebanon and forcing...

Catamaran capsizes killing 4

Catamaran capsizes killing 4

Costa Rica Jan 8, 2015 / 11:30 am

A catamaran carrying dozens of foreign tourists on a pleasure cruise capsized off Costa Rica on Thursday, killing four people, emergency officials said. The...

Measles cases linked to Disney

Measles cases linked to Disney

California Jan 8, 2015 / 10:45 am

Seven Californians and two people in Utah have confirmed cases of measles likely contracted on trips last month to Disney theme parks in California, officials...

Elvis fans celebrate 80th birthday

Elvis fans celebrate 80th birthday

USA Jan 8, 2015 / 10:00 am

Elvis Presley fans have gathered at Graceland in sub-freezing temperatures to celebrate what would have been the late singer's 80th birthday. Priscilla...

Tail may be lifted for black boxes

Tail may be lifted for black boxes

Indonesia Jan 8, 2015 / 6:37 am

Strong currents and blinding silt thwarted divers' attempt on Thursday to find AirAsia Flight 8501's black boxes, which are believed to still be in the...

Limits on press freedom?

Limits on press freedom?

Paris Jan 8, 2015 / 6:33 am

Two sides in conflict over whether there should be limits to the liberty of self-expression clashed violently in a usually tranquil side street on the Right...

2 brothers France's most wanted

2 brothers France's most wanted

Paris Jan 8, 2015 / 6:30 am

Two brothers are suddenly the most wanted men in France, suspected of the armed onslaught on a newspaper office that claimed a dozen lives and horrified most of...

Protesters take to streets

Protesters take to streets

France Jan 7, 2015 / 10:30 pm

Messages of condolence, outrage and defiance over the Paris terrorist attack on a newspaper office spread quickly around the world Wednesday with thousands of...

Years of abuse leads to shooting

Years of abuse leads to shooting

Florida Jan 7, 2015 / 10:00 pm

A 15-year-old girl who fatally shot her 16-year-old brother suffered years of abuse, including being locked in a room for weeks at a time with only a blanket...

Linking N.Korea to Sony hack

Linking N.Korea to Sony hack

Jan 7, 2015 / 8:45 pm

NEW YORK, N.Y. - The FBI director revealed new details Wednesday about the stunning cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., part of the Obama...

1 suspect turns self in

1 suspect turns self in

France Jan 7, 2015 / 6:59 pm

Update 8 p.m.: A French judicial official says one man sought in the deadly shooting at a French satirical paper has turned himself in to police. The official,...

Police fatally shoot man at airport

Police fatally shoot man at airport

Ohio Jan 7, 2015 / 4:19 pm

A man who tried to buy an airline ticket using a fake ID was fatally shot Wednesday after returning to his illegally parked car, where he lunged at an airport...

Paris gunmen identified

Paris gunmen identified

France Jan 7, 2015 / 12:20 pm

Update -- 2 p.m. French police officials say they have identified three men as suspects in a deadly attack against newspaper offices that killed 12 people and...

12 dead in terror attack

12 dead in terror attack

France Jan 7, 2015 / 12:00 pm

Update -- 12 p.m. The 12 people killed in the terrorist attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo included a prominent economist and some of France's...

Wreckage found from AirAsia flight

Wreckage found from AirAsia flight

Indonesia Jan 6, 2015 / 11:10 pm

Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle spotted the tail of the missing AirAsia plane in the Java Sea on Wednesday, the first confirmed sighting of any major...

Time capsule opened from 1795

Time capsule opened from 1795

Boston Jan 6, 2015 / 7:20 pm

Early residents of Boston valued a robust press as much as their history and currency if the contents of a time capsule dating back to the years just after the...

Tight control following disaster

Tight control following disaster

China Jan 6, 2015 / 7:05 pm

Some wailed and some staggered with grief as relatives of the 36 people killed in Shanghai's New Year's Eve stampede visited the disaster site for...

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