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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II's New Year honors list makes knights and dames out of some of Britain's best loved stage and screen stars even as it ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has refused to include a novel about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man in the country's high school c...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The pilot of a small plane that smashed into a building in downtown Anchorage was not authorized to fly the aircraft used in ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials raided two prominent cultural venues — a popular art gallery and a publishing house — questioning workers about their ...

LONDON (AP) — A husband and wife convicted for conspiring to bomb civilian targets in London have been given hefty prison sentences. Mohammed Rehman, ...

DALLAS, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia woman lied when she told police her 8-year-old daughter was killed by a bullet from a gun that accidental...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Oneida Indians are asking a state court to throw out a license recently granted to a rival casino being built in upstate New Y...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are inching higher Tuesday after sharp sell-offs last week. Strong results from investment bank Morgan Stanley are boostin...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The scene had echoes of the Paris attacks: A bustling shopping area shaken by the blasts of suicide bombers and gunfire as o...

NEW YORK (AP) — The race for best original song at the Academy Awards is a full-blown battle of the 20-something pop stars, with Lady Gaga, Sam Smith ...

LONDON (AP) — Three men were convicted Thursday of involvement in raiding a safe deposit vault in London's jewelry district, an audacious 14 million-p...

BERLIN (AP) — A bus carrying 31 Syrian refugees arrived from southern Germany in Berlin on Thursday night as a district councilor in Bavaria followed ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for the second time this week on Thursday entered three besieged communities in Syria as part of an eff...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A picturesque Colorado river with a peculiar French name is the latest prize in the West's water wars, where wilderness adv...

HELSINKI (AP) — Helsinki police say they are investigating seven cases of suspected sexual assault and harassment of women on New Year's Eve by men wh...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's first parliament in three years is off to a rocky start, with flamboyant displays of support for the president and general rowdin...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police have arrested one person suspected of a direct link to the deadly suicide bombing that killed 10 Germans in Istanbul's ...

LONDON (AP) — What does the woman who has everything get as gifts? A list of official gifts received by Queen Elizabeth II from world leaders and dign...

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have charged three men and one woman with forming a far-right terror group and planning a bombing on a refugee shelte...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — All 10 U.S. Navy sailors detained by Iran after their two small boats allegedly drifted into Iranian territorial waters around one...