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The UK Independence Party emerged as a serious nationwide threat to Britain's three main parties today by making unexpectedly big gains in the local elections. Party leader, Nigel Farage, said the…

SEOUL, South Korea - A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for "hostile acts" against the state, the North's media said Thursday - a…

Amsterdam — Millions of Dutch people dressed in orange flocked to celebrations around the Netherlands Tuesday in honor of a once-in-a-generation milestone for the country's ruling House of…

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi. A cut in rates should be the catalyst for a less aggressive approach to reducing budget deficits. Photograph: Reuters The warning signs are flashing red…

By News Wires (text) Greece’s Parliament approved an emergency bill Sunday to pave the way for thousands of public sector layoffs and free up 8.8 billion euros ($11.5 billion) in international rescue…

North Korea has rejected South Korea's offer to open formal talks on restarting operations at the Kaesong joint industrial zone, Yonhap news agency has said. Yonhap news agency confirmed the…

BOTH the CIA and the FBI flagged the deceased Boston bombing suspect over possible terror ties, but he slipped through the fingers of investigators. The revelations raised fresh questions over why US…

Toronto: Two foreign nationals arrested on suspicion of what police say was an Al-Qaeda-backed plot to derail a Canadian passenger train rejected the charges as they made their first court appearances…

TRIPOLI, April 23 (Reuters) - A car bomb in Tripoli wounded two French guards at France's embassy in Libya on Tuesday, bringing new violence to the capital, which has not seen attacks on diplomats…

LONDON — The austerity pain pursued by a number of European countries has led to very little gain. The 2012 figures from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office, showed Monday that many of…

Glasgow, 22 April 2013 – Today UNICEF, the CGF and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games have announced a unique collaboration for children that seeks to touch the lives of children in Scotland and in…

Heavily armed police are searching a US town house by house for a man suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon. Residents of Watertown and surrounding areas, including the whole of Boston, have been…

By Lateef Mungin, CNN (CNN) -- The full extent of the devastation will have to wait until the light of day Thursday. But residents of the small Texas town of West already know what to expect. "There…

London (CNN) -- The funeral of Britain's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, is under way at St Paul's Cathedral in London. A horse-drawn carriage earlier carried Thatcher's coffin through…

Troops are out, patrolling the city of Boston, and the mood evokes the early hours after the 2001 terrorist attacks. This time, though, Americans are less surprised. Deborah Kathan, a 57-year-old…