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China's trade data for June missed forecasts by a wide margin, adding to growing concerns of a slowdown in the Asian economic powerhouse.

The defense is pushing to get texts and photos on Trayvon Martin's cell phone admitted into court.

Masao Yoshida, the former general manager of Fukushima Daiichi, died of cancer on Tuesday.

Dr. Vincent Di Maio said the evidence supports George Zimmerman's claim that Trayvon Martin was on top of him during a struggle.

Some children in China are resorting to hiring strangers to keep their parents from feeling neglected.

Erasmus, launched in 1987, has now become a tool for millions of students across the EU to train for a job.

The leader of the protest group famous for topless demonstrations flees her native Ukraine for Paris.

A former judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court says arguments before the court should no longer be one-sided.

The complaint centers around a green-oriented recycling tax levied on cars imported into Russia.

We knew that China's pollution was really bad. Now we know it's affecting Chinese people's mortality.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer faces an uphill battle in his bid for New York City comptroller, beginning with collecting enough valid signatures to qualify him as a candidate.

As reports surface that Snowden has accepted asylum in Venezuela, President Maduro's offer might be reaching its expiration date.

Parvez Rasool wants to be judged only according to his athletic skills, not questioned about his political loyalties.

Boehner can either back a pathway to citizenship, ensuring his party's survival, or do nothing to stop its electoral downtrend.

Ed Milliband is breaking a historical bond between the nation's powerful unions and the party they have long controlled.

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight spoke on camera in a video released on Monday evening, thanking the public for its support.

Jobs? Unemployment? Surveillance? That's not what many members of the U.S. Congress heard from constituents over the July 4 break.

Classified data about the South Korean military and U.S. forces in South Korea are the target of a cyberspying campaign, a report says.

The explosion may be the start of heightened political conflicts in Lebanon between Hezbollah and its enemies.

The abuse of alcohol – both legal and illegal – by people of all ages is a serious problem across all of Kenya.

Security camera footage shows six suspects in a serial bomb attack at Bodh Gaya -- one of the world’s holiest sites in Buddhism.

The Muslim Brotherhood's fall from power in Egypt may turn out to be good news for even more radical Islamists with a violent agenda.

Scientists and politicians will meet this week to debate two marine protected areas off Antarctica. Each would be the world’s largest.

Egypt’s interim leader, Adly Mansour, set a timetable for elections and an amendment to the constitution, as civil war fears escalate.

Brazil is investigating whether its local telecom companies helped the U.S. to spy on communications on Brazilian soil.

Japan, which, in January, raised its defense budget for the first time in 11 years criticized its neighbors for inciting regional tensions.

Worsening relations with Hamid Karzai are pushing Obama to withdraw US forces faster and leave none behind, reports say.

Three countries have offered NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum.

The Union for a Popular Movement party is nearly bankrupt and that could doom Nicolas Sarkozy's political comeback.