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A guard at a Kabul hospital run by a US charity opened fire on Thursday, killing at least one foreign doctor and wounding several other people, medics told AFP. … More »

She was the miracle seamstress, plucked from the rubble of the world's worst garment factory disaster 17 days after the building collapse. One year on, she has … More »

Garment workers and activists carry a mock coffin during a protest in front of the Bangladesh Garment Manufactures and Exporters Association (BGMEA) office in Dhaka … More »

A model poses by a Cadillac CTS car at the "Auto China 2014" Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Beijing on April 21, 2014 … More »

Some parents of the mostly teenage victims of South Korea's ferry disaster are pushing for autopsies that might show their children were alive inside the submerged … More »

Finished garments are seen after they were retrieved from the rubble following the collapse of the Rana Plaza industrial building in Savar, on the outskirts of … More »

Member of the national police clash with demonstrators during a protest against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on April 20, 2014 … More »

US President Barack Obama Thursday told a press conference in Japan that islands at the centre of a bitter territorial dispute with China are covered by a defence … More »

A strong earthquake measuring 6.7 struck late Wednesday off Canada's Vancouver island in the Pacific, the US Geological Survey said. … More »

Prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny goes on trial Thursday in a major case that his supporters fear will end in a lengthy jail sentence for President … More »

Two Americans were executed, one in the state of Missouri and the other in Florida, each for the murder of a couple. … More »

China on Thursday released a seized Japanese ship after owner Mitsui O.S.K. Lines paid 2.9 billion yen ($28 million) to the Chinese side, a court said, in a dispute … More »

France and the United States called for the UN Security Council to consider sanctions against South Sudan over spiraling violence in the country's civil war, … More »

Aspirin can reduce the risk of colon cancer by half, but only in people who carry high levels of a specific type of gene, a study released Wednesday found. … More »

Access for foreign aid for millions of Syrians desperately in need has not improved, violating a Security Council resolution passed two months ago, the UN chief … More »

Just 50 days before Brazil hosts the World Cup, authorities beefed up security in Rio de Janeiro after a violent clash between residents and police in a slum near … More »

Some are suspected fighters from Yemen, Russia or Pakistan, arrested by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere. Several have been linked to al Qaeda. As the … More »

By Alissa de Carbonnel and Aleksandar Vasovic DONETSK/SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - One is a dapper former croupier and promoter of Ponzi scams run by "Russia's … More »

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau ruled out Thursday any link between material found on a beach in southwestern Australia and the missing Malaysia Airlines jet. … More »

By Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - A senior police officer was killed near Cairo on Wednesday in a bomb attack claimed by a militant group, while security forces … More »

Turkey's prime minister offered his condolences on Wednesday over the massacre of Armenians during World War I, calling it "our shared pain", the country's most … More »

Vandals daubed paint across a stone memorial commemorating the late Pope John Paul II in his home region of southern Poland on Wednesday, days before he is to be … More »

People work at the High Production factory in the garment district on April 22, 2014 in New York … More »

By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) - Four people killed when a car bomb exploded outside a police station in a poor neighbourhood of the Kenyan capital Nairobi … More »

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Noah Browning GAZA/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestine Liberation … More »

Young adults who smoke marijuana may be at risk for serious or even fatal heart problems, according to a study by French researchers on Wednesday. … More »

A local politician whose mutilated body was found near a rebel-held town in east Ukraine suffered many knife wounds, his anguished widow said Wednesday after … More »

View of halted expansion works at Panama Canal locks, in Cocoli, near Panama City, on February 5, 2014 … More »