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New disclosure details how notorious al-Qaida operative who had unwittingly got away from CIA dragnet was tracked and executed in drone attack in Pakistan.

US Senate earlier agreed on last-minute deal to raise US debt ceiling and end deadlock.

The Court of Cassation in Paris fined Scientology €600,000 for taking advantage of vulnerable believers.

Flight QV301 from Vientiane to Pakse crashed as it was preparing to land

France's anti-Europe Front National and Netherlands' xenophobe Freedom Party to join forces ahead of EU vote

Washington sources claim Republicans and Democrats have brokered 11th-hour truce to avert default and end months-long gridlock.

Illinois users say wounds caused by the drug feel like a cigarette burn before turning into gangrene.

Pakutunkhwa province's minister of law Israullah Gandpur among eight killed by suicide blast.

Federal intelligence officials join probe as Indian authorities' concerns increase.

Scientists faced tough conditions bringing up meteor from lake in the Urals.

Authorities discuss flying body of former SS captain to Germany as Italy commemorates victims of Holocaust.

Another recession, a fall in the value of dollar, rising funding woes for banks, a global market crash -- all these and more could be the fallout of a US default.

The Greek parliament has lifted immunity from prosecution on six neo-Nazi Golden Dawn MPs

Report demands a clampdown on multi-billion pound human trafficking industry across Europe.

Diving instructor discovers rare 18-foot oarfish off Catalina Island.

7.2-magnitude quake ravages central island of Bohol, while Cebu and Siquijor provinces decimated.

Bride accused husband's friend of rape after getting into his bed on wedding night in China.

Russia's homophobia problem is assuming ever more nightmarish proportions, says Larry Poltavtsev.

A Russian court on Wednesday (October 16) upheld the theft conviction against opposition leader Alexei Navalny but suspended his five-year prison sentence, meaning the prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin will not be jailed.

Kirov court upheld conviction for embezzlement but suspends five-year prison sentence

Onno Elderenbosch, senior assistant to the Dutch ambassador, attacked amid mounting diplomatic tension between Moscow and The Hague.

Landslides triggered by heavy downpour batter tiny island near Tokyo while Wipha brushes past wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant.

1200 Muslim migrant workers in Biryulyovo district have been held after murder of ethnic Russian Yegor Shcherbakov.

Israel has granted only 4 asylum seekers refugee status in 2013.

'Cautious optimism' over talks voiced by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Society of St. Pius X, whose members include Holocaust denier Richard Williamson, holds Priebke's funeral rite in Albano Laziale.

7.2-magnitude quake ravages central island of Bohol, while Cebu and Siquijor provinces decimated.

Scientists confirmed traces of polonium-210 found on former Palestine leader's clothes after body was exhumed in 2012.

Ji Zhongxing's bomb stunt at Beijing international airport lands him in jail.