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"I love Scotland. I hope they remain part of Britain - and if they don't, I still love them," Mike Myers said.

President Obama chose retired Marine Corps Gen. John Allen to manage the effort to destroy the Islamic State.

The deal would put Akorn on a growing list of U.S. companies that have reincorporated overseas for lower taxes.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the first ever rise in Australia's terror alert system since it was introduced in 2003.

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had Maria Shriver removed from his official portrait, amid a cheating scandal that led to their split.

Advisers to President Barack Obama will appear before a House panel next week to talk about the president’s climate change agenda.

Women, Latinos and young voters are becoming disillusioned with Obama.

Last month, Islamic State supporters attacked a group of Yazidis in the town of Herford, in western Germany.

An attack in March at the Kunming station in the southwestern province of Yunnan, killed 31 people and left 141 injured.

The Ebola virus, which has a death rate of about 50 percent, has already killed more than 2,200 people in West Africa.

Pollsters YouGov and TNS have shown a surge in support for independence since late August.

The European Union has held out an olive branch, however, by saying it could lift some or even all of the sanctions within weeks.

A majority of Chinese people believe that war with Japan will happen; and many of them see it happening within the next five years.

India has set a target of generating 15 percent of its domestic power from renewable energy sources by 2020.

The final verdict in the trail of Oscar Pistorius, who was cleared of murder Thursday but faces other charges, will be delivered Friday.

Russia is looking to strengthen relations, as well as find new customers for its natural resources, in Asia, as relations sour with the West.

Turkey, however, did not sign the joint statement, signaling its unwillingness to participate directly in the fight against Islamic State.

The anti-corruption crackdown is seen as an attempt to increase the government's legitimacy, and persecute political enemies.

Australia has repeatedly raised the alarm about the number of its citizens believed to be fighting with Islamic groups in the Middle East.

The Palestinian Authority reached a deal with the U.N. and Israel that would let reconstruction material enter the strip.

"The president’s made clear that he doesn’t want boots on the ground, well somebody’s boots have to be on the ground,” House Speaker John Boehner said.

T.J. Lane was sentenced to three life sentences for killing three and wounding three when he opened fire in an Ohio high school

A CIA assessment said the number of fighters with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria could be as high as 31,500.

The test results on Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's tumor will not be ready until next week.

He might be too busy campaigning in the 2016 presidential elections for such leisurely activities.

James Foley's mother criticized the U.S. government during an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper Thursday.

In an interview with CNN, Secretary of State John Kerry said the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria was not a war.

Yahoo was ultimately forced to become one of the first companies ensnared in PRISM, the controversial surveillance program.

U.S. airstrikes have forced the Islamic State to cede control of some Iraqi oil wells and refineries.