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Saudi Arabia's ailing King Abdullah, 91, was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for "medical checks," the royal court said.The king,…

Behind black gates and high walls, Iraqi national security agents watch 200 women and children.Boys and girls play in the…

Indonesian rescuers believe they have found the wreck of a crashed AirAsia (AIRA.KL) plane on the ocean floor off Borneo,…

A cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants near the Greek island of Corfu sent out a distress…

The United Nations expressed concerns on Tuesday over the arrest of a senior Bahraini opposition leader, for charges that include…

The Islamic State group has published what it says is an interview with a Jordanian pilot it captured after his…

Insect-eating bats that inhabited a hollow tree in a remote village in Guinea may have been the source of the…

Relatives of passengers on AirAsia flight QZ8501 began crying hysterically and fainting Tuesday as Indonesian television footage showed a body…

Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" and Disney's animated fantasy hit "Frozen" were the two most pirated films of…

Inmates at a prison in southern Brazil have taken seven staff hostage in the latest in a series of mutinies…