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NEW YORK (CMC) -- Legendary New York radio personality, Dave Herman, has died in jail while awaiting United States federal trial on charges of trying to seduce a six-year-old girl in the Caribbean, his lawyer has confirmed. Attorney Marc…

LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Police in northern India have arrested three men for brutally attacking the mother of a rape victim after she refused to withdraw her complaint, an official said Friday, as investigators sought clues in a gang rape…

OXON HILL, Md (AP) — Jacob Williamson shrieked with delight, sank to his knees and pounded the stage as his name was called as one of the 12 finalists in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. In the list of 12 finalists is 13-year-old Tajaun…

Madrid (CNN) -- Swooping in at 4 o'clock in the morning, Spanish police arrested six Spanish men on suspicion of recruiting and sending 26 radical Islamic fighters for terrorist groups in Syria, Mali and Libya, the Interior Ministry said…

AP -- The Nigerian government knows where nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls are being held by Islamic extremists but is incapable of using force to rescue them, the country's defence chief said Monday. Air Marshal Alex Barde made the comment…

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A fire broke out at a South Korean hospital for the elderly early Wednesday, killing 21 people -- most of them patients in their 70s and 80s who had difficulty walking. Police said that after examining video…

(CNN) -- Two Americans were injured Wednesday in Afghanistan when a U.S. Consulate vehicle was attacked while traveling through the western city of Herat, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul said. The Americans were "lightly injured" and are being…

(CMC)-- Pistorius listens as a court ruling is handed down that he would undergo psychiatric evaluation in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, May 20. Pistorius is charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on…

New Delhi, India (CNN) -- At least nine people were killed and 82 others were injured when a train derailed Monday in northern India, a railway spokesman told CNN. Preliminary reports indicate that six cars of the Gorakhdam Express…

(CNN) -- Four gunmen attempted to attack the Indian consulate in Afghanistan's western Herat province early Friday, a spokesman for the governor's office said. A member of the Indian Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), who was guarding the…

Hong Kong (CNN) -- A series of explosions tore through an open-air market in the capital of the volatile western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Thursday, killing dozens of people and wounding many more, state media reported. China's…

(Taiwan) -- On the afternoon of May 21, Minister of Foreign Affairs David Y. L. Lin met with Representative Bui Trong Van of the Vietnam Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei for the sixth time since riots erupted in Vietnam on May 13,…

JOS, Nigeria (AP)-- Islamic militants killed 48 villagers in northeastern Nigeria near the town where they kidnapped 300 schoolgirls, and the US said Wednesday it was sending in 80 military personnel to expand the drone search for the…

SHANGHAI (AP) — China signed a landmark US$400 billion deal Wednesday to buy natural gas from Russia, binding Moscow more closely to Beijing at a time when President Vladimir Putin's relations with the West have deteriorated to the lowest…

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani military carried out airstrikes in the countries northwest early Wednesday, targeting alleged militant hideouts in the volatile region. In a statement, the military said that there were "reports…