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Teenager kills uncle for shutting down her internet
A Taiwan teenager allegedly stabbed her uncle to death on Wednesday because he shut down her internet to stop her from staying online late into
Saudi Arabia is to build a women-only city
Saudi Arabia is to build a women-only city as it struggles to combine Sharia law with career-minded females. The new city will be exclusively for women...
Apple Pays $60 Million for iPad Name in China
More than $60 million and two years later, Apple finally owns the rights to the name iPad in China. Apple and Proview International had been embroiled...
The Global Note: Mexico’s President…Iran Feels The Pinch…South Africa Chimp Attack…Viva Espana!
-EL PRESIDENTE…The party that ruled Mexico for 70 years – and was thrown out in 2000 in a ballot-box revolution against a dictatorship – has...
North Korea's New Image Shaped by Platform Shoes, Earrings and Cell Phones
Attempting to forge a new image for himself and his country, North Korea's youthful supreme leader Kim Jong Un is allowing women to wear pants,...
Talks on Global Arms Treaty Set to Begin in New York
A month of UN-hosted talks are due to kick off in New York, aiming to establish a treaty controlling arms sales around the world. Over the...
Disabled girl, 16, found starved down to 23 pounds by her mother
A 16-year-old girl with cerebral palsy weighed only 23lbs and could not walk or talk when she was removed from her family home after being...
United States in "game" with Syria
Fifteen months into the crisis in Syria, and the Obama administration is, as one U.S. official describes it, in "a holding pattern," waiting for Russia...
A dad's decision from hell: Choosing between saving wife, son
A father was forced into a hellishly cruel Catch-22 when a car carrying his wife and son hurtled into a river.Just minutes after his wife's...
Seal and Heidi introduce their new arrival
Heidi Klum has debuted new daughter Lou to the world, and just like her supermodel mother, the camera already loves her.The Victoria's Secret star and...
Review: 'Fela on Broadway!'
Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 230 W. 49th St.Tickets: $27-$122; (212) 239-6200Not every Broadway musical set in Africa comes with perky puppets and syrupy ballads.Just like Fela...
Bear attacks man who climbed into zoo enclosure
This is the chilling moment a bear clamped a man in his jaws after he climbed into the enclosure at a Swiss zoo.The mentally handicapped...
Car crash victim trapped in 'coma' for 23 years was conscious
'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear': Man trapped in 23-year 'coma' reveals horror of being unable to tell doctors he was consciousFor 23...
'Holiday brides': Men marrying, bedding and abandoning women
There’s a new trend in the U.K.: British men are marrying Indian women, treating them like "prostitutes" and abandoning them."There are 15,000 to 20,000 abandoned...
Wife poses as schoolgirl to catch a pedophile - her husband
When you're visiting chat rooms for Internet sex, the last person you want to bump into is a family member. But that's exactly what happened...
American jaied in Thailand for alleged king insult
Thai authorities said Friday they arrested an American citizen on charges he insulted the country's monarchy, in part by posting a link on his blog...