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John Boehner has survived a House rebellion by winning a third term as House speaker after Republicans took control of both chambers for the...

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A female suicide bomber has attacked a police station in the tourist hub of Sultanahmet in Istanbul, Turkey, injuring two officers, the city governor...

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Indian police are treating the death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of former minister Shashi Tharoor, as murder, nearly a year after her body was...

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A new Ebola vaccine is being tested on healthy volunteers at Oxford University. In September 2014, a separate trial of another Ebola vaccine got under...

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North Korea has made progress in creating deliverable nuclear weapons, South Korea's defense ministry has speculated. In a white paper, the ministry said enough time...

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Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been ordered to go on trial over the stabbing of a man at a bar on...

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SpaceX has postponed an experiment to bring part of its Falcon 9 rocket down to a soft landing on a floating sea platform. The space...

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An Australian court has charged Brooklyn rapper Joey Badass with assault after allegedly punching a security guard before a show near Byron Bay on...

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The Hobbit’s Stephen Fry has confirmed he is to marry his partner, Elliott Spencer. The 57-year-old comedian and writer Stephen Fry has given formal notice...

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18,000 cakes were stolen from a landfill site in the town of Kragujevac in central Serbia ahead of the New Year's holiday and resold...

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Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan will challenge incumbent Sepp Blatter for FIFA presidency. The 39-year-old FIFA vice-president will stand as a candidate at the...

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In his speech at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai has condemned the "vicious" cyber attack that...

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The US oil price has dropped below $50 a barrel for the first time since April 2009. The price of Brent crude also fell on...

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Jury selection has begun in the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring more than...

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The Chinese box office made a total of 29.9 billion yuan ($4.8 billion) in 2014, a 36% increase vs. 2013. For the second year in...

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A Greek-operated oil tanker has been attacked by military jets in the Libyan port of Derna, killing two crew members, the Greek authorities have...

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has topped the North American box office for a third week in a row. The final film...

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Lebanon has imposed stricter conditions for Syrians entering the country in a bid to slow the flow of asylum seekers trying to escape the...

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Australian firefighters are racing to contain a major bushfire before soaring temperatures and high winds fuel the blaze. More than 30 homes are already feared...

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The euro has reached a nine-year low against the US dollar as investors predicted the European Central Bank (ECB) may act to stimulate the...

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Thomas Gilbert Sr., creator and chief investment officer of $200 million hedge fund Wainscott Capital Partners, has been shot dead in his flat in...

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Greek left-wing extremist Christodoulos Xiros recaptured after a year on the run had been planning an armed assault to free inmates from a maximum...

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It's often said that the age of dogs can be calculated by multiplying their age, in human years, by seven. However, it's more complicated than...

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The funeral of Wenjian Liu, the second of two officers shot dead last month, has been held in New York. Wenjian Liu, a son of...

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Twenty new cardinals have been named by Pope Francis, including churchmen from Tonga, Ethiopia and Myanmar. Fifteen of the new appointees are under 80, making...