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(CNN) -- A Maryland mother stabbed two of her children to death and wounded two others while attempting an exorcism, authorities said. Zakieya L. Avery, 28, was charged Saturday with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of…

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least 13 people were killed and 28 others were wounded in a suicide bombing Monday at a market near the Pakistani Army's headquarters, police said. Those killed in the attack at the Royal Artillery Bazaar…

(CNN) -- An 88-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after shooting his wife in the chest at a Nevada hospital, authorities said. William Dresser was being held on $225,000 bail and has been put on suicide watch. He…

Washington (AP) -- President Barack Obama said he doesn't think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, "in terms of its impact on the individual consumer." "As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad…

(BBC)-- Jobless migrants from within the European Union will be denied access to housing benefit from April this year, senior government ministers have said. Home Secretary Theresa May and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith told…

(BBC)-- Credit card details from almost half of all South Koreans have been stolen and sold to marketing firms. The data was stolen by a computer contractor working for a company called the Korea Credit Bureau that produces credit scores.…

(CNN) -- The Ganja Law Reform Coalition (GLRC) says it is expecting a large number of growers, smokers, other users and sympathisers with the cause from the United States at today's Cannabis Stakeholders Forum at the University of the West…

(CNN) Security forces killed seven militants in a counterterrorism operation in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan, security officials said Saturday, according to the country's state news agency RIA Novosti. The six men and one woman…

(CNN) A group of passengers who were aboard an Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed last summer has sued aircraft manufacturer Boeing, according to a lawsuit filed in an Illinois court. "We are asking for damages to be paid to the…

(BBC) Aid has reached the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk in the Syrian capital Damascus for the first time in months, Palestinian officials say. Some 18,000 Palestinian refugees in the camp have not seen an aid delivery since July.…

(BBC)  Egypt's referendum on a new constitution has been backed by 98.1% of people who voted, officials say. Turnout was 38.6% of the more than 50-million eligible voters, the election committee said. The draft constitution replaces one…

(BBC) President Obama; ''We will not monitor the communications of... our close friends and allies'' President Barack Obama has ordered curbs on the use of bulk data collected by US intelligence agencies, saying civil liberties must be…

(CNN) -- Police have taken into custody a Beijing-based scholar known for his criticism of China's policies in the restive western region of Xinjiang, his wife told CNN Friday. Ilham Tohti, a prominent economics professor belonging to the…

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- A condemned man appeared to gasp several times and took an unusually long time to die -- more than 20 minutes -- in an execution carried out Thursday with a combination of drugs never before tried in the US. Dennis…

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say a 4-year-old girl accidentally shot her 4-year-old cousin to death with a loaded rifle she found under a bed at a relative's home on the city's west side. Sergeant Michael Woody tells The Associated Press…