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Six-term Republican Senator Richard Lugar is defeated in Indiana's Republican primary election by a Tea Party-backed challenger.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- International envoy Kofi Annan urged the world's nations Thursday to "genuinely unite" behind a new effort to end the escalating Syrian conflict, warning that if things don't change quickly the country will likely see brutal repression, massacres, sectarian violence and all-out civil war....

Three months before he was killed by a U.S. drone strike, Fahd al Quso, one of al Qaeda's top operatives in Yemen, spoke at length to a local journalist. He was asked why al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had stopped plotting against the United States. Was it because all efforts were devoted to an internal project?

NEW YORK (AP) -- Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as a writer who told the truth about childhood....

BERLIN (AP) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Europe to take a gradual path towards political union, frustrating the appeals of many of her colleagues for quick, bold moves to fight the continent's raging financial crisis....

South Korea has stepped up customs inspections to stop capsules filled with powdered human flesh being smuggled into the country from China.

Light bulbs meant to last for more than two decades while consuming very little energy may go on sale later this year.

Aaron Dykes | Hip hop fantasy envisions sipping on signature cognac while watching female passengers getting a close inspection from power grabbing TSA agents.

A 60-year-old man attempting to fly from Baltimore to Tampa, Florida, this weekend is facing charges for attempting to board a plane with a loaded gun, the Transportation Security Administration says.

The office of Libyan PM Abdurrahim al-Keib is attacked by ex-rebels demanding compensation promised by the government, leaving at least one guard dead.

A retired Dundalk garda sergeant describes as 'ridiculous' suggestions he used hand signals to notify the IRA of the presence of RUC officers at the garda station.

 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters filed into polling stations Tuesday to decide whether to give Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett a rematch against Republican Gov. Scott Walker in next month's rare recall election or whether to back one of Mr. Barrett's fellow Democrats.

Mr. Barrett was one of ...

A bomb plot by a Yemen-based al-Qaeda group involving an updated "underwear bomb" was foiled by insider infiltrating a terror cell, US officials say.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official said Tuesday, to determine if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane....

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat is in hospital in Ramallah after suffering a heart attack, his wife says.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin voters filed into polling stations Tuesday to decide whether to give Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett a rematch against Republican Gov. Scott Walker in next month's rare recall election or whether to back one of Barrett's fellow Democrats....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin voters filed into polling stations Tuesday to decide whether to give Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett a rematch against Republican Gov. Scott Walker in next month's rare recall election or whether to back one of Barrett's fellow Democrats....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi received her first passport in 24 years on Tuesday ahead of a planned trip to Norway and Britain....

Steve Watson | Footage shows Texas Rep. swatting screener's hand away from his genitals.

LONDON (AP) -- Britain must stick to its tough austerity measures despite doubts elsewhere in Europe over the best remedy to fix the continent's stalled economies, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Tuesday....