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Oscar Hijuelos, the Cuban-American author best known for his Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, died in New...

  Look at the smiles on Michelle and Malia Obama's faces as they look at Malala with the president. Malala...

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was released from a hospital on Sunday, five days after undergoing surgery for a cranial blood...

A Papua New Guinea man described as a vampire has been arrested after allegedly murdering his young daughter by biting her neck,...

AFP - Iraq has executed 42 prisoners convicted of terrorism-related charges in the last two days, the Justice Ministry has...

Pakistan's teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for fighting for girls' rights to education, was awarded the European...

In Hosni Mubarak's final days in office in 2011, the world's gaze focused on Cairo, where hundreds of thousands of...

Former rebel gunmen freed Libya's prime minister on Thursday after holding him for several hours in reprisal for the capture...

Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden 's father arrived in Moscow on Thursday and said he hopes to see his...

More than 700 Australian police swooped on the Hells Angels biker gang Thursday in a series of heavily-armed raids in Melbourne and...

Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been taken by force by gunmen from a hotel where he was staying in the capital...

The speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, John Clark tendered his resignation today, Wednesday, 9th October, 2013. Following...

Armed groups attacked the Nigerian embassy in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, a country of about 1.7 million people, Tuesday. The whereabouts of the...

Henry Morello prayed to Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lost things. But as the 84-year-old spent a fifth night...

After global success on Twitter Pope Francis is spreading his social media net even wider, by setting up an Instagram...

A Chinese woman has revealed she was dragged from her home in the middle of the night and forced to...

When Brryan Jackson was a baby, his father, a hospital technician, injected him with HIV-tainted blood to avoid paying child...

President Barack Obama is canceling a trip to Asia next week because of the government shutdown. Obama had already shortened the trip from four...

A new law in Iran that allows men to marry their adopted daughters at the age of 13 has caused...

A Muslim man who suffered a near-fatal brain aneurysm has told of how he awoke from a coma to begin...