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An Indonesian woman who was gang-raped by men accusing her of having extramarital sex may be caned publicly for violating Islamic law, an official said Wednesday.
If a New Hampshire man thinks cops lie, he’s free to say so on his license plate, the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday.
NBC secured the U.S. broadcast rights to the Olympics through 2032 on Wednesday in a record six-games agreement worth $7.75 billion, a surprise deal that shuts out rival American networks and provides further long-term financial security to the IOC.
Chinese ships have been ramming into and firing water cannons at Vietnamese vessels trying to stop Beijing from putting an oil rig in the South China Sea, according to officials and video footage Wednesday, in a dangerous escalation of tensions over waters considered a global flashpoint.
The security footage looks unassuming at first: a Hawaiian Airlines jet parked at a gate at the Maui airport under overcast skies, and workers going through their regular routine. Then, the 15-year-old’s legs dangle briefly from the plane’s belly and he drops to the concrete.
Visitors to the Philadelphia Zoo might want to beware of stray cats: A new enclosed passageway allows lions and tigers to roam outside their exhibits. Yet humans can safely gawk at the predators traveling along Big Cat Crossing.
A former mortician whose killing of a rich widow shook an East Texas town — and later inspired the dark comedy “Bernie” — has been released on bond.
A longstanding student tradition at Corona del Mar High in Newport Beach, California involves pulling prom dates from a pool of names ranked by attractiveness, but principal Kathy Scott said it was “not acceptable to objectify students.”
A blowtorch used to cut metal ignited support timbers on the Hesperia bridge causing a fire and massive highway closures on the Nevada-California border.
In an effort to keep up with eating trends, Subway is adding exotic flavors to the menu and leaning out meat slices.
The sexual health information app “Hula” is getting a name change after receiving several complaints of cultural insensitivity toward Native Hawaiians.
The state water authority in California plans to alleviate drought and drylands by engineering an aqueduct that can send water uphill.
Tucked into the sunbaked rolling hills of Brazil’s midwest, Araras is home to what is thought to be the largest single group of people suffering from a rare inherited skin disease known as xeroderma pigmentosum, or “XP.”
A Tennessee state senator who compared the federal health care law to the forced transportation of Jews to concentration camps during the Holocaust appeared to make light of the firestorm about his comments this week in a blog post on Tuesday.