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Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan was elected on Thursday to serve as the next speaker of the House — a vote that followed weeks of uncertainty and came on the heels of the House passage of a sweeping two-year bipartisan budget deal.…

Allies and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have agreed to renew efforts to end the civil war. The Vienna talks involved Iran, a key Assad ally, for the first time. The ministers agreed to ask the United Nations to start a…

A fugitive accused of shooting a Tennessee police officer and firing at a Kentucky trooper was killed in a shootout with authorities early Friday, ending a nearly week-long manhunt. Floyd Ray Cook, 62, was pronounced dead at the scene in…

A man accused of murdering teenager Becky Watts has told a jury about the moment he killed her. Nathan Matthews admits killing his 16-year-old stepsister but denies murder and conspiring to kidnap her. The 28-year-old told Bristol Crown…

Two French pilots who were sentenced by a court in the Dominican Republic to 20 years in prison have fled the country. Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos were arrested in 2013 in the Dominican resort of Punta Cana. Police said their plane was…

The US Justice Department and the FBI are investigating the case of a female student in South Carolina being tossed and dragged by an officer. The incident occurred after the officer was called into a classroom when the student refused to…

(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…