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Lawmakers in Colombia propose decriminalising the cultivation of the coca leaf and marijuana to deprive traffickers of revenue.

Japan's industrial output unexpectedly fell in February, due to lower overseas demand for cars and electronic goods, figures show.

It's more than a little shocking when someone makes a movie that deals harshly with abortion. This is Hollywood after all.

Rock 'n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis is married for a seventh time -- this time to the ex-wife of a cousin whose sister Lewis wed when she was 13 -- his representative said Thursday.

The National Public Radio station in Seattle is going before an ethics board Saturday after a pro-life media group filed a complaint accusing the station of airing a slanted story.

The Washington News Council Board of Directors is holding a hearing over a story aired by KUOW-FM in April 2011 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Riot police used pepper spray and tear gas Thursday to chase protesters away from a celebration by retired soldiers marking the 1964 coup that established Brazil's long military dictatorship....

TORONTO (AP) -- Canada has announced it is scrapping the penny....

How the islands fell and were recaptured 30 years ago

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- People queuing up for Mega Millions tickets aren't the only ones salivating over the record $540 million jackpot that could be won Friday - some state governments struggling through lean times know a hometown winner would bring a tax bonanza....

The Magazine's weekly quiz of the news, 7 days 7 questions.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- The appointment of a new chief executive at IBM has revived the debate over Augusta National's all-male membership just one week before the Masters....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez has a double-digit lead over the opposition's presidential candidate, but a quarter of Venezuelan voters haven't committed to either candidate, a poll said Thursday....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez has a double-digit lead over the opposition's presidential candidate, but a quarter of Venezuelan voters haven't committed to either candidate, a poll said Thursday....

Can Aardman's The Pirates! sail to success in the US?

Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings are set in fantasy worlds, so why does everybody speak with a British accent?

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- At least 13 people died during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison Thursday, one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters, authorities said....

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- At least 13 people died during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison Thursday, one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters, authorities said....

CONIFER, Colo. (AP) -- Mary Thuente says her neighbors got an automated call warning them to flee their home as a wildfire spread over the mountains southwest of Denver, but she never got one before she left....

Scottish Water International announces a partnership agreement with Polish engineering firm ECM Group Polska.

Legal representatives at the Penrose inquiry into contaminated blood are preparing to make their closing submissions.