The U.S. military acknowledged on Thursday that commanders in Afghanistan made serious mistakes during a cross-border raid last month in which 24 Pakistani police officers were killed.

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North Korea says a fierce snowstorm paused and the sky began glowing red above sacred Mount Paektu just minutes before leader Kim Jong Il’s death.

State media say the ice on volcanic Lake Chon at the

A farewell letter written by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott when he realised he would not survive his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole is to be sold in London, Bonhams auction house said o

Santa seems to be getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers’ shopping accounts at retail stores across the US, helping to buy the Christmas gifts that families couldn’t afford.

Japan's government on Tuesday selected the Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter to bolster its aging air force, announcing it will buy a total of 42 aircraft under a multi-year deal.

Japan has budget

Kim Jong Il, the mercurial and enigmatic North Korean leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69.

North Korea announced the death of supreme leader Kim Jong Il and urged its people to rally behind his young son and heir-apparent on Monday, while the world watched warily for signs of instability in

Justin Bieber poses with principal Sherrie Gahn of Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas on Friday.

Rescuers battled high waves on Sunday as they searched for 200 asylum seekers still missing after their wooden ship sank off Indonesia's main island of Java. So far only 33 people have been plucked al

A man smelling of petrol walked into a police station overnight and implicated himself in the death of a woman set on fire in the elevator of her apartment building, police said Sunday.

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