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A Virginia federal judge has struck down a key part of President Barack Obama's health care reform law.

A fund which supports more than 21,000 people with severe disabilities is to be phased out by 2015.

India's foreign ministry is again expressing concern after another of its diplomats was reportedly subjected to a security search at a US airport.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP)The 2009 crash of a stolen plane near the capital city of Brasilia exposed Brazil's vulnerability to terrorist acts, said a United States diplomatic cable released yesterday by WikiLeaks.On March 12, 2009, a man kidnapped his...

NEW YORK (AP)For two years, the two sons of jailed financier Bernard Madoff portrayed themselves as honest whistleblowers of their father's historic fraud....

WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama apparently has not had a cigarette since March, but the White House stopped short Thursday of declaring that he has officially kicked the habit bedeviling millions of Americans."I have not seen or witnessed...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Close to 14,000 people were murdered in Venezuela last year and the figure could be significantly higher, a prominent human rights group said Thursday, alluding to the rampant crime that has become a central concern of Venezuelans.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP):Scientists reported Thursday the strongest evidence yet that a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 2,000 people in Haiti can be traced to South Asia.The analysis fits with, but does not prove, the controversial idea that the...

Indonesian police say they have arrested one of the country's most wanted men.

Guyana’s president Bharrat Jagdeo is calling for developed countries to show sincerity in their pledges towards dealing with climate change issues.

JOHANNESBURG (AP): The South African government has halted the roll-out of a controversial male circumcision device, health department spokesman Fidel Hadebe said on Wednesday.Hadebe said more research...

Skirmishes raged across cyberspace Thursday between WikiLeaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the group, with websites on both sides of the battle line taken out of service or choked off by attacks.