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Chinese consumer spending is forecast to grow at an annual average rate of 7.7 percent in real terms during the next decade.

MH370 vanished with 239 aboard. Nobody knows anything about their fate, loved ones are moving on, and the search is stalled.

Australian and Malaysian vessels will begin trawling the Indian Ocean in two weeks for signs of the missing jetliner.

Military suicides in the first quarter of the year encompassed 74 in the active services, 24 in the reserves and 22 in the National Guard.

An amateur investigator and a team of forensic experts say they’ve solved the 126-year-old murder mystery.

The Arab League endorsed a UNSC resolution calling on states to "act to suppress the flow of foreign fighters, financing and other support to Islamist extremist groups in Iraq and Syria".

ISIS is currently holding about 46 Turkish citizens hostage.

"In some ways, we are solving a non-existent problem because we can't solve the existing ones," a Western defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said as the 28-nation summit ended on Friday.

On "Meet the Press," the president said there's overwhelming support for an offensive. His speech is planned for Wednesday.

Mahmoud Abbas' comments follow a deal between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in April.

At least 50 people were killed as Syrian warplanes bombarded Raqqa, which is about 400km from Syria's capital Damascus.

It is the U.S.'s first offensive in Iraq's western Anbar province since it started air strikes on ISIS forces in the north of the country in August.

The CDC's report reveals 44 percent of women in U.S. have suffered some form of sexual violence during their lifetime.

Relatives of those lost on the flight say authorities in China are retaliating against them for pressurizing the government publicly.

According to the poll, Scottish nationalists have a 51 percent to 49 percent lead over their unionist rivals. The vote takes place on Sept. 18.

Matthew Miller, a resident of Bakersfield, Calif., will go to trial in North Korea Sept. 14, its state media says.

Witnesses saw plumes of black smoke filling the sky on Sunday morning, in a further test for a cease-fire that is barely 40 hours old.

At the beginning of August, the Scottish unionists led the nationalists by 22 percentage points in a similar poll.

The Islamist group, a wing of al Qaeda, also pledged to take revenge over the death of Ahmed Abdi Godane last week.

Doctors Without Borders warned that Sierra Leone's plans for a three-day house arrest could exacerbate the spread of the Ebola virus disease.

Among the hostages was French journalist Nicolas Henin, who was briefly held with U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

The clashes are the worst since the fall of Gadhafi 2011.

Mexico hopes a new $9.2 billion airport will become Latin America's biggest travel hub. But the plans are opening up old wounds.

"I will personally do everything I can -- as will my entire government -- to ensure that anti-Semitism doesn't have a chance in our country," said Merkel.

The president had pledged action on immigration reform by the end of the summer. Republicans call the reversal "raw politics."

Wendy Davis details her decision to have an abortion 17 years ago in her memoir, "Forgetting to Be Afraid."

President George W. Bush authorized the NSA's Stellar Wind shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. Newly revealed memos show the reasoning.

The former Egyptian president is now being charged with endangering national security by giving Qatar and its affiliate Al Jazeera classified documents.

Aqsa Mahmood, Left her home in Scotland to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria.