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Residents of north-eastern US have been warned to stay indoors, as the region braces for a storm expected to dump up to 14 inches of snow.

JOHANNESBURG (AP):Rwanda's former spy chief has been found dead in a hotel in South Africa, and police said yesterday they have opened a murder investigation.

LONDON (AP): A lawyer who let slip J.K. Rowling's secret thriller-writer identity has been fined £1,000 ($1,645) for breaching client confidentiality rules...

LONDON (AP):The New York Times and Guardian newspapers have called for clemency for Edward Snowden, saying that the espionage worker-turned-privacy advocate should be praised rather than punished for his disclosures.The papers, both of...

COMMODORE, Pennsylvania (AP):A western Pennsylvania man is jailed on charges he stole a pair of handcuffs he was wearing when he allegedly escaped from a state police cruiser.Troopers say 29-year-old Douglas Lydic, of Commodore, was handcuffed but not...

WASHINGTON (AP):All things good, bad, and unpredictable come this year for President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul as the law's major benefits take effect, along with an unpopular insurance mandate and a risk of more nerve-wracking disruptions to...

NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP):South Carolina authorities say a 44-year-old woman angry at a man for returning home without beer on Christmas Eve beat and stabbed him with a ceramic squirrel.The Charleston County Sheriff's office says in a...

"Big dreams are not a luxury reserved for a privileged few but the animating force behind every community, in every borough," he said in his speech.

It was a year when the world mourned the loss of three of the most influential leaders to have graced the main stage. Well, at least a major portion of the globe did mourn....

WASHINGTON (AP): It was a moment for Barack Obama to savour. His second inaugural address over, Obama paused as he strode from the podium last January, turning back for one last glance across the expanse of the National Mall...

After a skiing accident on Sunday morning which left seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher in a coma, doctors tending to the motor star say they are taking his critical head injury ...