Authorities say 8-year-old boy escaped injury after taking his mother's car for a spin through his suburban Buffalo, N.Y., neighborhood and hitting several objects before his joy ride ended on a neigh

Her eyes welling up with tears, actress Angelina Jolie said Tuesday she heard 'horrific' and 'heartbreaking' accounts from Syrian refugees who fled the civil war in their country to find shelter in a

Sri Lanka's diamond-swallowing saga took an unexpected turn on Tuesday when police revealed the stone swallowed by a visitor at a gem exhibition was a fake and they are searching for the real stone va

Japan's Cabinet minister in charge of financial services and the privatization of the postal system was found dead at his home on Monday, police said.

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A Thai man has been arrested and accused of illegally raising six tigers on top of an apartment building on Bangkok's outskirts after police busted a larger tiger-trafficking ring in the country.

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U.S. officials handed over formal control of Afghanistan's only large-scale U.S.-run prison to Kabul on Monday, even as disagreements between the two countries over the thousands of Taliban and terror

Bolivia’s vice president and his bride chose for their Saturday nuptials a temple of stone walls that the ancient Aymara people constructed some 3,000 years ago to observe the heavens.

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A Northern California mixed-martial artist accused of ripping out his friend's heart and removing his tongue while the two were on hallucinogenic drugs has pleaded guilty to murder and mayhem charges.

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A judge has granted bail to a young, mentally challenged Christian girl accused of insulting Islam in Pakistan.

The decision by Mohammed Azam Khan on Friday could help defuse some of the uproar the c