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Patients who volunteer their genomic and medical data to a new nationwide study will be signing up for limited protection and the potential for ethical quandaries.

Following Tony Abbott's "Knightmare" gaffe, Australia's leader attempts to redeem himself by dumping unpopular policies.

The Islamic State group's 'governor' and head of religious police may have been planning an unprecedented split.

The crackdown on recreational spending by government officials has hurt business at the country's once-thriving establishments.

The Obama administration is on track to issue its final verdict of the Canada-to-Texas pipeline early this spring after a crucial Monday deadline passed.

The council warned that anyone helping ISIS in any form would be subjected to the same sanctions that the terrorist group faces.

No one has yet taken responsibility for the lethal bomb in the Nigerian city of Gombe, though Boko Haram has already struck there before.

One of a handful of countries that still has a blanket ban on abortion may soon ease restrictions on it.

Aviation experts had been puzzled why the plane's emergency location transmitter remained missing until now.

The body parts and skeletons were inside a room in a police building that formerly had been used as a mortuary.

The trial of a Korean Air executive has taken on a powerful symbolic meaning in South Korea.

The law makes it a felony to defraud people seeking legal immigration assistance of more than $1,000.

The junta government that has Thailand under martial law since it took power saw its first bomb attack during its rule.

The court had earlier given a December preliminary verdict sentencing nearly 200 to death after the 2013 clashes in Kardasa.

Egypt's Interior Ministry said the suspect had provoked the police officer by insulting him.

Obama has threatened to veto the bill, because he is concerned about the environmental impact that the crude oil pipeline would have.

Later this week, U.S. President Barack Obama will be at an event that will also be attended by the Dalai Lama.

The Ukrainian government also announced plans to boost its forces in the country's east.

Alexis Tsipras, Greece's leftist prime minister, says he intends to pursue his mandate of renegotiating debt terms with Europe.

Candlemas, also called Día de La Candelaria and La Chandeleur, is celebrated 40 days after Christmas.

Seven people were killed and 10 injured in 2008 after Tomohiro Kato stabbed people on a busy district in Tokyo.

Over 150 people, mostly children, were killed in December when Taliban militants stormed an army-run school in Pakistan's northwest.

The daughter of the chairman of Korean Air could face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty of all the charges leveled against her.

Devi Mariah Ostler had to give birth on the side of an interstate highway after she went into labor while driving herself to the hospital.

India's experiment to bring social benefits to a billion people with a unique ID is moving fast, according to Nandan Nilekani.

Kenji Goto, 47, who had worked as a journalist in several war zones, had gone to Syria in October to secure the release of Haruna Yukawa.

Several schools from the Midwest to New England canceled classes as another major snowstorm moved toward the northeastern United States.

The proposal follows similar attempts in Colorado and California, where regulations were passed to regulate app-based ridesharing services.

Samir Salem Kamal, who has been Libya's representative to OPEC for two years, was kidnapped from Tripoli on Jan. 15.