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Hurricane-force winds batter Britain
A major storm with hurricane-force gusts is lashing southern Britain, parts of France and Netherlands, causing flooding and travel delays, including the...
Ex-chauffeur charged with raping girls
The former driver for disgraced late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile has appeared in court to face charges including multiple counts of raping girls younger than...
Breaking out bloodiest prison riot's info
New York's attorney general has asked a state judge to release sealed documents about the 1971 riot and retaking of Attica state prison in an effort to...
Rebels releases former U.S. soldier
Colombia's main leftist rebel group on Sunday released a former U.S. army private who the guerrillas seized in June after he refused to heed local...
Lou Reed of Velvet Underground dead
Lou Reed, the punk-poet of rock n' roll who profoundly influenced generations of musicians as leader of the 1960s cult band Velvet Underground and remained...
Israel to free Palestinian prisoners
Israel has agreed to release 26 long-serving Palestinian prisoners as part of a U.S.-brokered deal that led to the resumption of Mideast peace talks....
Forecasting heat waves 3 weeks before?
Meteorologists may have found a way to predict some killer heat waves up to three weeks in advance. Now, the best they can do is about 10 days. An earlier...
Monkeys rescued amid cries of cruelty
Indonesia's capital is saying no to monkey business. Literally. Security forces are fanning out across Jakarta conducting raids to rescue macaques used in...
Mom & kids killed in NYC stabbing rage
A mother and her four young children were killed in a late-night stabbing rampage at their Brooklyn home, and a man has been taken into custody, police said...
Blasts kill 5 in India, dozens injured
A series of small bomb blasts killed five people and injured dozens Sunday in an east Indian city just before a massive campaign rally by the country's main...
Baghdad hit by wave of car bombs
A new wave of car bombs hit Shiite neighbourhoods of Baghdad and a suicide bomber targeted soldiers in a northern city in attacks that killed at least 56 across...
Egyptian satirist takes heat
Egypt's top prosecutor received complaints Saturday against a popular television satirist less than 24 hours after he returned to the air, as the private TV...
Protesters beat up cop and take his gun
Law enforcement officials say protesters beat up a police colonel and stole his service pistol and radio during a Friday night demonstration demanding lower...
US foreign policy-the spy in the ointment
Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Rome and Paris to talk about Mideast peace, Syria and Iran but was confronted by outrage over the sweep and scope of...
Saudi women get behind the wheel
More than 60 women across Saudi Arabia claimed they drove cars Saturday in defiance of a ban keeping them from getting behind the wheel, facing little protest...
Syrian Kurdish fighters capture border
Syrian Kurdish gunmen on Saturday seized a major border crossing with Iraq from al-Qaida-linked groups following intense infighting between rebel groups that...
British director Antonia Bird dies at 54
British director Antonia Bird, known for films such as "Face," ''Priest" and "Mad Love," has died. She was 54. The BBC, citing...
Orthodox Church forbids Facebook
The Macedonian Orthodox Church has banned it clergy from using Facebook to protect against abuse and "new phenomena of confessions and intimate...
Brazilian police - protesters beat up cop
Law enforcement officials say protesters beat up a police colonel and stole his service pistol and radio during a Friday night demonstration demanding lower...
Mount Etna volcano erupts in Italy
Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has erupted, sending up a towering plume of ash visible in much of eastern Sicily. Etna's eruptions aren't...