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(BBC) Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said that Senior Deputy Ben Fields "did not follow proper procedure". He was a school resource officer at the school in South Carolina. He "should not have thrown a student - he could have done a…

(BBC) A man has been in prison in the US for 23 years for shooting dead a British tourist even though the judge in his trial and police detectives believe he is innocent of the crime. Robert Jones was accused of being behind a crime spree…

(New York Post) A South Korean woman has been charged with raping her husband, after allegedly locking him in the house and forcing him to have sex with her for 29 hours. Prosecutors claim she raped her spouse to obtain “favorable…

(AFP) - Maldivian authorities on Saturday arrested the nation's Vice President Ahmed Adeeb over an alleged plot to assassinate President Abdulla Yameen, who escaped death after his boat was hit by a bomb last month, the home minister said.…

(AP) - MIAMI — Floridians know two of the Republicans presidential candidates very well: Jeb Bush led the state as a two-term governor and Marco Rubio has been a senator since 2011. Nonetheless, Donald Trump is outpacing both of the…

(The Washington Post) - Hillary Clinton has struggled as a candidate -- to put it kindly -- since she formally entered the presidential race in the spring. She's been guarded, wooden and slow to adapt to changing circumstances. Her allies…

(BBC) - South African President Jacob Zuma has ruled out any increases in university tuition fees for next year after more than a week of protests by students. They have been the biggest student protests to hit the country since apartheid…

(Taiwan Today) - Taiwan’s unemployment rate dropped 0.07 of a percentage point year on year to 3.89 percent in September, the lowest in 15 years for the month, according to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics Oct.…

(BBC) - The Chinese Communist Party has banned all 88 million of its members from joining golf clubs, in its latest update of party discipline rules. Extravagant eating and drinking, and abuse of power, are also formally banned, said…

(BBC) - A masked man armed with a sword has killed a pupil and a teacher at a school in Sweden. The suspect, clad in black, apparently posed for photos with students ahead of the attack, in the western town of Trollhattan. Two further…

(The Week) - Donald Trump has been dethroned — at least in Iowa. A new Quinnipiac University poll out Thursday shows that Ben Carson now leads the GOP presidential field in the Hawkeye State by an 8 point margin, winning the support of 28…

(USA Today) - A New York City police officer died Tuesday night after being shot during a gun battle in East Harlem, officials said. Randolph Holder, who was assigned to the NYPD's housing unit, was responding at about 8:30 to reports of…

(MSN) - For days, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been sequestered inside her red brick home in Washington, poring over events that happened more than three years ago and half a world away. Her preparations for the hearing on Thursday before…

(CNN) - Next month photographer Peter Turnley will become the first American to be given a major exhibition at Havana's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes since the Cuban Revolution, when his exhibition opens in the museum on November 13. The…

(Reuters) - Guatemalan comic Jimmy Morales should triumph easily in a second round run-off on Sunday to elect the country's next president after the arrest of the previous leader in a massive corruption scandal, a poll showed on Wednesday.…