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Police have detained two American men as part of an investigation into the strangling death of an Irish exchange student in Tokyo, local authorities said Sunday.

A suspected NATO airstrike killed eight civilians -- including six children -- in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial spokesman said.

A Communist Party official in central China's Henan province was in police custody after authorities said he confessed to raping more than 10 girls, state-run media said Sunday.

A day after Pedro Hernandez was charged in the killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz, prosecutors now face the task of corroborating his confession and piecing together a mystery that's confounded investigators for more than three decades.

Mitt Romney is predicting he could reduce unemployment to 6% in four years, but Jeffrey Miron says the U.S. needs to boost the economy at a faster pace

"Like the smell of a brand-new car" were the words of International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit on Saturday after he carefully opened the hatch and entered the Dragon capsule for his first glimpse inside.

Maria Cardona says the U.S. can stop yo-yo-ing gas prices by supporting policies that steer us away from oil and toward sensible alternatives

Paolo Gabriele is accused of illegal possession of confidential documents found in his apartment, the Vatican says.

An 18-year-old man was arrested early Saturday in Finland over a shooting spree that left one person dead and eight wounded, CNN's Finnish affiliate MTV3 reported.

U.N. observers view the bodies in Houla, where activists say entire families died. Britain condemns the "appalling crime" and calls for an urgent Security Council session.

Sandy Dahl, who became one of the tragic faces of 9/11 after her husband was killed while piloting United Flight 93, died Friday.

Syrian government forces pounded the central province of Homs on Friday, killing more than 50 people including children, opposition groups said.

The two-story tan house on East Linwood Avenue is unremarkable for suburban Maple Shade, just outside Camden, New Jersey. The man who lived there with his wife and teenage daughter blended in, too.

A gunman suffered two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head Friday after freeing hostages in Valparaiso, Indiana, authorities said.

If House Republicans have their way this summer, the Bush-era tax cuts would become permanent, "Obamacare" would begin to be dismantled and energy regulations would be rolled back.

Mary Matalin says Catholic institutions were right to sue the Obama administration over the new rule

A brush fire in Orlando about five miles from Disney World prompted authorities to bar traffic along a major highway through the central Florida city, a police spokeswoman said.

Speaking to families of fallen troops, Vice President Joe Biden recounts enduring his wife and daughter's deaths.

Petty Officer 1st Class Ryan J. Wilson of California was the 1,974th U.S. death and the 3,000th overall coalition death, according to CNN's count.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday vetoed 12 articles of a controversial forest bill approved by Congress last month, which was promoted by the powerful agriculture lobby but slammed by environmentalists.