Venezuela on Monday gave three U.S. Embassy officials 48 hours to leave the country, accusing the Obama administration of siding with student protesters who the country accuses of inciting violence. The U.S. has denied the charges.
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A trade ban on lacy lingerie has Russian consumers and their neighbors with their knickers in a twist.
A U.N. panel warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday that he may be held accountable for orchestrating widespread crimes against civilians in the secretive Asian nation, ranging from systematic executions to torture, rape and mass starvation.
Some of the Navy’s futuristic weapons sound like something out of “Star Wars,” with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic speeds.
The roof of a resort auditorium collapsed during a welcoming ceremony for South Korean university freshmen, killing nine and likely trapping about 10, officials said Tuesday.
Scientists have solved the mystery of the “jelly doughnut” rock on Mars that appeared to come out of nowhere. NASA said Friday that a wheel of the rover Opportunity broke it off a larger rock and then kicked it into the field of view.
A Pennsylvania admitted in a jailhouse interview that she killed a man she and her newlywed husband met through Craigslist and said she has killed more than 20 other people across the country.
The California Highway Patrol says two officers have been killed in an early morning accident in Fresno County. The officers were killed while responding to a multi-vehicle accident on Highway 99 in the Central Valley town of Kingsburg at around 6 a.m. Monday.
Locking the pilot out of the cockpit, an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked a plane bound for Italy on Monday and diverted it to Geneva, where he asked for asylum, officials said.
A new poll finds that tea partyers and liberals — together, about half of Americans — are significantly more likely to oppose the collection of millions of ordinary citizens’ telephone and Internet data than more moderate Democrats and Republicans.
A snake-handling pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show “Snake Salvation” has died after being bitten by a snake during a weekend church service in Kentucky.
They’re hidden in babies’ diapers, ramen noodle soup packages, footballs, soda cans and even body cavities.
Two Tampa Bay area women are now back in possession of their own wedding dresses nine years after a mix-up got them switched.
Two blind, aging cows were 350 miles apart, distressed and facing a dark future.
The sooner you start explaining the world to your baby, the better.