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CHICAGO, USA (AP) -- The Archdiocese of Chicago will on Wednesday hand over thousands of pages documenting clergy sex abuse allegations to victims' attorneys who have fought for years to hold the Catholic Church accountable for its handling…

Hong Kong (CNN) -- Farmers from a village in southwest China literally turned a multimillion dollar windfall into a wall of cash. This week, residents of Jianshe village in Sichuan Province took delivery of blocks of money worth 13 million…

(CNN) -- Nine years after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the trial of four men accused of his killing opened Thursday in an unprecedented tribunal. However, the stand at the United Nations-backed Special…

(CNN) -- Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone will stand trial on bribery charges over a multi-billion dollar deal, a German court said Thursday. The 83-year-old is accused of making a corrupt payment to Gerhard Gribkowsky, a banker who…

WESLEY CHAPEL, Florida (AP) -- Chad Oulson was described by friends as a man who loved dirt bikes and his baby daughter. Curtis Reeves was a retired Tampa police officer who liked riding his motorcycle with his wife and was once on his…

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — First the Nigerian police targeted the gay men, then tortured them into naming dozens of others who now are being hunted down, human rights activists said Tuesday, warning that such persecution will increase under a…

ROSWELL, New Mexico (AP) — A 12-year-old New Mexico boy drew a shotgun from a band-instrument case and shot and wounded two classmates at his middle school Tuesday morning before a teacher talked him into dropping the weapon and he was…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemalan authorities have detained two women who threw flour on vice president Roxana Baldetti's face at the end of the president's state of the nation speech. Baldetti was about to leave the Teatro National on…

London (CNN) -- Russia has expelled an American journalist and author critical of President Vladimir Putin in one of the first such cases since the Cold War. David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times and author of…

(CNN) -- Between 200 and 300 women and children who were fleeing fighting in South Sudan drowned when an overloaded ferry overturned on a river, a South Sudanese army spokesman said Tuesday. The accident happened Saturday on the White Nile…

(CNN) -- It started with a father sending text messages to his daughter during the previews of a movie. It ended with the 43-year-old man shot dead amid the theater seats, and a 71-year-old retired police officer in custody. That man was…

Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of demonstrators on Tuesday continued anti-government protests in Bangkok intended to drive Thailand's Prime Minister out of office. The protesters have laid siege to major intersections in…

Juba, South Sudan (AP) — A military spokesman in South Sudan says 200 people fleeing warfare died after a boat crossing the Nile River sank. Colonel Philip Aguer said Tuesday that the boat was mostly carrying women and children. Tens of…

(BBC)--A permit to hunt and kill an endangered Black Rhino in Namibia has been sold at a US auction for $350,000 (£212,000). The Dallas Safari Club in Texas says the hunt will help protect the species by removing an old aggressive rhino,…

(BBC)--Councils that back "fracking" will get to keep more money in tax revenue, David Cameron has said as he urged opponents to "get on board". The prime minister said English local authorities would receive all the business rates…