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SYDNEY (AFP) ― Australia’s plans to protect the Great Barrier Reef are inadequate, short-sighted and will not prevent its decline, the country’s …

WASHINGTON ― An unmanned rocket owned by Orbital Sciences Corporation exploded Tuesday in a giant fireball and plummeted back to Earth just seconds after …

PARIS (AFP) ― Is a violent criminal born that way, or shaped by childhood experiences and circumstances? Delving into one of oldest questions in psychology, …

The decision to put a dozen American soldiers returning from Liberia into quarantine for Ebola at their base near Venice rather than in the United States …

JERUSALEM (AFP) ― Israel pledged Monday to build more than 1,000 new settler homes in Arab east Jerusalem, in a move the Palestinians warned was likely to …

BAGHDAD (AP) ― Two car bombings in Iraq, including one in which a suicide attacker drove a Humvee into a checkpoint manned by Iraqi troops and pro-government …

DAMASCUS (AP) ― Members of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and other Syrian rebel factions launched simultaneous attacks on army checkpoints, police …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― U.S. health authorities on Monday issued new guidelines urging active monitoring of people at risk of Ebola after returning from West …

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Smoldering lava from a slow-erupting volcano has reached within several meters of homes on Hawaii’s Big Island, emergency officials …

The presidents of the International Olympic Committee and soccer’s world governing body FIFA have made an agreement the 2022 World Cup in Qatar …