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Brent crude settled at $55.32 a barrel Friday, about half of what it was selling for in the summer of 2013.

The results are expected to appear in an April issue of Rolling Stone.

"Giving a pizza you made with your own hands to the Pope is very emotional."

Mourners held a vigil for seven children who died in a fire sparked by a faulty hot plate.

Authorities cite "the completely unacceptable actions of a drunken group" and plan to step up area patrols.

Singapore's former prime minister will lie in state at Parliament House for five days.

Those in custody had pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group and were seeking recruits to fight in Iraq and Syria, officials said.

As expected, President Francois Hollande's ruling Socialists came third with around 20 percent of the vote.

The ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has been under a corruption probe for the past two years.

Chadian strikes killed several dozen Boko Haram fighters in the Nigerian village of Djaboullam, said a senior Niger official.

Over half of all Americans want a president who is willing to change Obama's policies, poll results say.

After 530 years, the long-lost bones of the English king head to Leicester Cathedral.

A member of the congregation said the group ripped up prayer books and chanted "we will kill you" at worshippers.

Paraguay ranked highest in Gallup's Positive Experience Index.

FBI Agent Don Alway says rumors should be set aside as investigators dig for facts.

The remarks signal possible rifts between Iraq’s army and the Iranian-backed Shiite militias currently supporting the Tikrit offensive.

Texas denied a man a specialty license plate displaying the Confederate flag and he is taking his case to the high court.

Residents of Taiz, which is between the capital Sanaa and the country's second city of Aden, said that Houthi militias took over the city's military airport.

"The president should get over it," McCain said on CNN. "Get over your temper tantrum, Mr. President."

Photographs posted showed one of the crew apparently executed on the spot and an injured pilot taken by rebels from the wreckage.

CIA Director John Brennan contends the Islamic State group's momentum has been blunted in Iraq and Syria.

The far-right U.S. senator in Texas faces a challenge in attracting mainstream Republican voters, a political adviser says.

Starbucks says it's ending one aspect of its race-relations initiative less than a week after it began.

"He won't go very far," President Beji Caid Essebsi says, while acknowledging the country faces a larger jihadist threat.

The head of the China Meteorological Administration warns climate change poses risks to his country’s infrastructure projects.

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde says the fund would be “delighted” to work with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

Residents of the Missouri city where Michael Brown was killed called for police staffing that better reflects local demographics.

With 1 million people displaced in Ukraine, the European Union is weighing humanitarian concerns against immigration worries.

While polls suggest voters are unexcited about the election for councillors with limited powers,mainstream politicians have all been touring the country with last-minute appeals to voters.