WELLINGTON - A man was jailed for life Friday for murdering his wife in New Zealand before abandoning his three-year-old daughter at an Australian railway station, sparking an international manhunt....
LONDON, Katherine Haddon - Harry Patch, the last soldier to fight in the trenches of Europe during World War I, died Saturday at the age of 111, drawing poignant tributes led by Queen Elizabeth II....
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Friday unveiled a new scheme that aims to improve US educational standards -- a key part of his campaign promise to make the country's school system the best in...
MIAMI - Police were searching Friday for a gunman who caused a two-hour emergency alert at the University of South Florida.
A Tampa police spokeswoman told local media the suspect was a black male...
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has stirred a firestorm by abandoning his usual preference for avoiding controversial racial issues to say police who arrested a black scholar acted "stupidly."...
WARSAW - Roman Catholic Franciscan friars are to open Poland's first privately-run Hebrew academy in October with the approval of the country's chief rabbi and a Polish cardinal, its rector said...
WASHINGTON - An Ohio man who led a band of adolescents on a Christmas time killing spree in 1992 that left six dead was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, a rights group said.
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PARIS - S.G. Sender, the Belgian-born pastry chef who created the cake for the wedding of Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana, has died at the age of 78 near Paris, his family told AFP on...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Five major hospitals in Brazil's crime-ridden city of Rio de Janeiro are to be bullet-proofed because of frequent gunfights involving drug gangs, the state news agency Agencia Brasil...
ATHENS- The UN refugee agency said Friday a new system in Greece to decide who should be granted asylum seeker status was not up to standard, and refused to take part in the process.
The UNHCR,...
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