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MADRID (AFP) ― The patient opens his yellow eyes wide but makes no sound as acupuncturist Edurne Cornejo pricks four fine needles into his legs. It is hard …

CHANDIGARH, India (AFP) ― Deep inside his massive garden of handmade waterfalls and sculptures, Nek Chand recalls toiling away secretly in the dead of night …

LONDON (AFP) ― Miss South Africa, 22-year-old Rolene Strauss, was crowned Miss World 2014 at the contest’s glitzy final in London on Sunday, with an …

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Bill Cosby broke his silence amid a flood of rape accusations in a very brief interview with the New York Post’s Page Six. “Let me say …

Andreas Schockenhoff BERLIN (AFP) ― German conservative lawmaker Andreas Schockenhoff, a foreign policy expert on Russia and France, has died at age 57, his …

Jeb Bush WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Jeb Bush, a son and brother of U.S. presidents, says he plans to release an ebook and his emails from his Florida governorship, …

MOSCOW (AFP) ― Russian non-conformist poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who achieved rock star fame during the Soviet era, was hospitalized Sunday after suffering a …

ROME (AP) ― Pope Francis is encouraging people to be joyful, saying, “We’ve never heard of a sad saint.’’ Some 50,000 people flocked to St. Peter’s …

A man holding hostages in a  Sydney cafe Monday has demanded that a flag of the Islamic State group be delivered to him and warned that four bombs have been …

Five people ran out of a Sydney cafe where a gunman has taken hostages and displayed an Islamic flag against the window, witnesses and police said Monday, …