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The death toll from the worst floods in half a century to hit Thailand continues to rise.

The Occupy Wall Street movement spilled into main streets around the world Saturday as crowds chanted and marched in a global movement of discontent.

A senior al Qaeda member, Ibrahim al-Banna, was killed in a drone attack in southern Yemen late Friday night, the country's defense ministry said.

Harrowing new detail has emerged from the last moments of the Air France Flight 447 which crashed into the Atlantic in June 2009, killing all 228 passengers and crew.

Harrowing new detail has emerged from the last moments of the Air France Flight 447 which crashed into the Atlantic in June 2009, killing all 228 passengers and crew.

U.S. President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously violent Lord's Resistance Army.

Gofran Hejazi does not know whether to refer to herself as a wife… or a widow.

Thailand's rice bowl is now Thailand's nightmare.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights describes a dire human rights situation in Syria and calls on the world community to prevent "full-blown civil war."

Liam Fox, Britain's defense minister, has resigned amid an uproar over a friend who worked as an adviser but didn't have an official governmental position.