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(CNN) -- A new SARS-like virus recently found in humans is "a threat to the entire world," according to the director-general of the United Nations' World Health Organization. The so-called novel…

Earlier this year, The Council of the City of New York passed a bill that will prohibit the New York Police Department (NYPD) from handing over Caribbean and other immigrants charged with low-level…

FLORIDA, United States, Monday May 27, 2013 – Just as what is predicted to be a very active hurricane season is about to start, a key satellite positioned to track severe weather in the eastern United…

French anti-terrorist police are searching for a man who stabbed a soldier in the neck in a business neighbourhood west of Paris before fleeing the scene on Saturday night. The 25-year-old soldier,…

The mother of one of the men suspected of butchering a British solider on a London street desperately battled to turn him against extremism after becoming concerned by his behaviour, it has been…

Mr Cameron said the coalition was bold and reforming Prime Minister David Cameron has said the coalition will continue "right up until polling day" in 2015. Seeking to move on from Tory warfare over…

Emergency workers searched for survivors in the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in Oklahoma after it was hit by a tornado, as officials lowered the death toll to 24. As dawn breaks Tuesday…

Two Brazilian tourists have been killed and more than 20 other people injured after two hot-air balloons collided in Turkey, a local official says. One ascending balloon was torn open as it hit the…

David Cameron is losing control of his party over Europe, former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Howe has said. The Tory leadership is "running scared" of its MPs by offering to renegotiate the…

May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bill Gates is once again the world’s richest person. The 57-year-old co-founder of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. recaptured the title from Mexican investor Carlos…

"A massive emergency response" is underway in North Texas, where tornadoes blew through Wednesday night, The Dallas Morning News says. A twister that hit Granbury, about 35 miles southwest of Fort…

By LYDIA POLGREEN Published: May 15, 2013 JOHANNESBURG — “Smile!” the visitor implored, an edge of forced bonhomie in his voice, as he held up a cell phone camera to take a snapshot. . But the face of…

BEIRUT -- Gruesome video footage purportedly showing a Syrian rebel commander mutilating the corpse of a dead soldier while shouting sectarian insults has drawn condemnation from Human Rights Watch…

By FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison. "I…

At least 19 people were injured on Sunday when multiple gunmen opened fire on a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans, police said. A 10-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl were grazed by bullets but were…