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LONDON (AP) ― Actress Anne Kirkbride, a star of British soap opera “Coronation Street” for more than 40 years, has died at the age of 60. Network ITV …

ATLANTA (AP) ― Speakers honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at his spiritual home in Atlanta repeated the same message on his national holiday Monday: …

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) ― Tiger Woods has another reason not to like cameras ― his agent said it cost him a tooth. Woods made a surprise visit to …

LONDON (AFP) ― Onetime British glam rocker Gary Glitter went on trial Monday on charges he sexually abused three underage female fans in the 1970s and 1980s. …

China’s economic growth slowed to 7.4 percent in 2014, marking the weakest expansion in 24 years, official data showed Tuesday, as the world’s …

The UN Security Council urged central African countries on Monday to step up plans for a multinational force to fight Boko Haram, in its first overall response …

Britain’s electronic spy agency GCHQ tapped emails of journalists at some of the world’s top media organisations, the Guardian reported on Monday. …

French President Francois Hollande. (AP-Yonhap) PARIS – Almost half of French oppose publication of cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, …

BAGHDAD (AFP) ― A young boy raises a pistol, aims at two kneeling men and fires, in a shocking propaganda video highlighting the Islamic State jihadist …

JAKARTA (AFP) ― Indonesia on Sunday put to death six people convicted of drugs offenses, including five foreigners, in the first executions carried out under …