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Published:Saturday | August 17, 2013 | 7:42 AM

Two days ago the protesters' camps were cleared, leaving at least 638 dead and sparking international condemnation.

Published:Friday | August 16, 2013 | 9:05 AM

This comes two days after authorities broke up Muslim Brotherhood protest camps in the Egyptian capital with the loss of at least 638 lives.

Published:Thursday | August 15, 2013 | 5:39 PM

The education ministry says the decision to close the schools was made after teachers said they feared for their safety.

Published:Thursday | August 15, 2013 | 2:12 PM

US President Barack Obama has strongly condemned the violence against Egyptian civilians, and has cancelled joint military exercises.

Published:Thursday | August 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP):A UPS cargo plane crashed and burned Wednesday morning on the outskirts of an Alabama airport, killing two crew members and scattering boxes and charred debris across a grassy field, officials said.The pilot and co-pilot, the...

Published:Thursday | August 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

BEIJING (AP):TENS OF thousands of people were evacuated as a powerful typhoon thundered into southern China on Wednesday after shutting down the bustling Asian financial centre of Hong Kong and sinking a cargo ship.Packing high winds and torrential...

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2013 | 4:55 PM

The Health Ministry said 235 civilians were killed and more than 2,000 injured, while Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said 43 policemen died in the assault.

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2013 | 11:20 AM

The former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr and his wife pleaded guilty to misusing $750,000 in campaign money on splurges such as a gold-plated Rolex watch, vacations and mounted elk heads.

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP): A federal judge's stinging rebuke of the police department's stop-and-frisk policy as discriminatory could usher in a return to the days of high violent crime rates and end New York's tenure as "America's safest big city", Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned.

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 10:37 AM

"I'm sorry that I said it was Switzerland," Winfrey said Monday night at the Los Angeles premiere of "Lee Daniels: The Butler."

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 7:56 AM

The BBC is reporting that Bribes are routinely paid by major foreign pharmaceutical firms operating in China.

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

HARARE (AP): ZIMBABWE's LONGTIME president, Robert Mugabe, said Monday his party would not yield its victory in disputed elections and proclaimed he has disposed of his main political rivals, with whom he had ruled in a tense coalition government, "like garbage"....

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

CLERMONT, Florida (AP):AS GLASS broke, the ground shook and lights went out, vacationers evacuated a central Florida resort building before a sinkhole caused a section of the structure to partially collapse early Monday....

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):The New York Police Depar-tment deliberately violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes, a federal judge ruled...

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Lighten drug-related charges - WASHINGTON, United States (AP):With the United States facing massive overcrowding in its prisons, Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the nation's criminal justice system...

Published:Monday | August 12, 2013 | 4:30 PM

In a ruling in Manhattan Federal District Court, Judge Shira Scheindlin said the policy was unconstitutional and appointed a monitor to reform the practice.

Published:Monday | August 12, 2013 | 9:00 AM

Lon Snowden, the father of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, has obtained a Russian visa and is expected to visit his son soon.

Published:Sunday | August 11, 2013 | 5:35 PM

A New Hampshire man used a handgun to shoot his 9-year-old son to death before taking his own life during supervised visitation at a YWCA office in the state's largest city, officials said Sunday.

Published:Sunday | August 11, 2013 | 11:52 AM

Voters chose Sunday who should lead Mali out of the political upheaval that left the country's north in the hands of al-Qaida-linked militants for much of last year.

Published:Sunday | August 11, 2013 | 11:46 AM

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's father has secured documents to visit his son in Russia and plans to discuss how he could fight espionage charges, Lon Snowden and his attorney said.

Published:Saturday | August 10, 2013 | 4:15 PM

The six were in a beach village on a small island in eastern Indonesia when the hot lava from the erupting volcano killed them.

Published:Saturday | August 10, 2013 | 9:19 AM

The US closed 19 diplomatic missions in the Middle East and Africa last Sunday in response to what it said was a threat of a terrorist attack.

Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 2:30 PM

Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey says she ran into Swiss racism when a clerk at Trois Pommes, a pricey Zurich boutique, refused to show her a black handbag.

Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 12:48 PM

The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York made the announcement a day after a grand jury in the Bronx, New York refused to re-indict white police officer Richard Haste.

Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 8:27 AM

Researchers found the vaccine, which is being developed in the US, protected 12 out of 15 patients from the disease, when given in high doses.

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