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LA BLANCA, Texas (AP) -- Masked gunmen opened fire during an illegal cockfight at a Texas ranch near the border with Mexico early Thursday, leaving three people dead and eight wounded, authorities said....

Saroo Brierly told BBC Radio 5 live's Victoria Derbyshire about tracking down his birth mother using Google Earth.

BOSTON (AP) -- She is a 63-year-old grandmother known as "Mamie," a former stay-at-home mother of five boys, and the cookie-baking wife of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But do not be fooled: Republicans and Democrats alike see Ann Romney as an effective political weapon....

News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch and his son James are to appear before the Leveson Inquiry next week, the inquiry confirms.

A woman is so determined to speak to President Ahmadinejad during a tour of Bandar Abbas that she defies his bodyguards and clambers on top of his open-top car.

BEIRUT (AP) -- In his first interview in nearly half a year, Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed Wednesday that his regime had captured foreign mercenaries who were fighting for the opposition in a bid to show his forces were fighting terrorists instead of pro-democracy activists....

ROME (AP) -- A court has sentenced an Italian man to more than three years in prison for the hit-and-run death of an American woman, killed last year as she jogged along a Tuscan highway....

Labour dismisses calls from Apprentice star and party member Lord Sugar for people not to vote for London mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of three suicide bombers as "disgusting" and said Thursday that only a quicker exit of international forces can prevent such missteps....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of three suicide bombers as "disgusting" and said Thursday that only a quicker exit of international forces can prevent such missteps....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of three suicide bombers as "disgusting" and said Thursday that only a quicker exit of international forces can prevent such missteps....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of three suicide bombers as "disgusting" and said Thursday that only a quicker exit of international forces can prevent such missteps....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of three suicide bombers as "disgusting" and said Thursday that only a quicker exit of international forces can prevent such missteps....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans cast themselves as champions of small business as they pushed a bill toward House passage Thursday that would cut taxes for nearly every employer in the country. Democrats called the measure merely the latest GOP effort to funnel federal help to those who are already successful....

CHANTILLY, Va. — Space shuttle Discovery is preparing to move into its new home at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum annex in northern Virginia.

By Thursday morning, the world's most traveled spaceship had been lifted off its Boeing 747 carrier and towed to the museum near Dulles International ...

Can an election be won on social media? That question is being increasingly asked in France, before the first round of the presidential election.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photos of U.S. soldiers posing with bodies of suspected insurgents as he called Thursday for "an accelerated and full transition of security responsibilities to Afghan forces."

A couple who kept 69 pets in a semi-detached house, including 56 large dogs, are banned from having animals for eight years.

The organisers of the London Olympic Games torch relay have gone to extreme lengths to ensure it stays lit.

There are angry scenes outside a South African court where suspects appear in connection with filming an alleged gang rape of a teenager.