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*Updating the sad case of Shaniya Davis, murder and rape charges will be filed against a North Carolina man in the death of the 5-year-old, police said Thursday. Mario Andrette McNeill had already been charged with kidnapping the Fayetteville, North...

IsraelNN.com) A man was seriously injured in a Switzerland park after being attacked by a bear, the state media reported. According to the report, the man climbed over the security fence separating the walkway for pedestrians from the bears.

Tea-totaling Texans? Them's fightin' words! I live in a small Texas Texas town which is probably not all that different from a small town anywhere else. At one time, as the town was growing, much was being reported by the...

Under the current sectarian system , the president is a Maronite Christian, the speaker of parliament a Shiite Muslim and the prime minister a Sunni Muslim. In addition all the parliament members and key government position are based on religious...

The death toll following a gas explosion at a coal mine in north-eastern China that killed 42 workers and left 66 miners trapped underground on Saturday was expected to rise, local media reported. The explosion occurred at 2:30 am in...

Rescuers working in frigid cold and darkness tried to reach 66 people believed trapped a third of a mile (half a kilometer) underground after a huge gas explosion Saturday ripped through a coal mine in northern China, killing at least...

Heavy rains combined with unusually high tides have flooded large areas of Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The town of 27,000 sits near the mouth of the Cowichan River and the river estuary is not far off. The Koksilah...

Amanda Knox , the U.S. college student charged with killing her housemate, deserves a life sentence, an Italian prosecutor said Saturday. Giuliano Mignini called Knox "narcissistic, aggressive, manipulative and theatrical" in his closing argument to the court in Perugia, The...

An Afghan-international security force detained two militants in Paktika province, one of whom was a sought after Haqqani facilitator who was dressed in women's attire to avoid capture. The facilitator is responsible for financing and transporting weapons and fighters to...

That I would have to say is a lot more than a little optimistic don't you think? President Karzai's inauguration audience reflected the concern coming from the whole international community. 17 NATO foreign ministers were there including U.S. Secretary of...