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Chinese official auditor Liu Jiayi told a top political committee that combined provincial debts have climbed to 3.85 trillion yuan.

The White House is looking for the next U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, and the field is wide open right now.

China on Friday labelled riots in restive Xinjiang as "a violent terrorist attack."

A Vatican cleric was arrested on Friday for trying to smuggle 20 million euros in to Italy from Switzerland on an Italian government plane.

Bangladesh’s Foreign Affairs Ministry replied to the White House's suspension of the country’s special trade status (which doesn’t affect textiles).

The Pentagon attracted fresh criticism for buying 30 helicopters for an under-staffed Afghan unit from a blacklisted Russian arms dealer.

Colorado's Aurora Police Department said, on Thursday, it might have destroyed DNA evidence without meaning to, in more than 450 cases.

A former vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff is a target in an investigation on leaked details about a U.S. cyberattack against Iran.

Major-General Pierre St-Amand said it was “one of the largest Arctic rescues the Royal Canadian Air Force has been involved in.”

Six Americans and one Brit crossing the Tasman Sea on the historic racing schooner Nina have not been heard from since June 4.

Rep. Duckworth, an Iraq war vet and double amputee, blasted an IRS contractor for exaggerating an injury for disabled veteran status.

China may have begun allowing worship of the Dalai Lama in the open in certain areas, but that doesn't mean an easing of tensions.

Gun buyback participants can trade in their guns for up to $600 in New York City.

The legislation, which includes more than 1,000 pages, was written by four Democratic and four Republican senators.

The Scottish Nationalists have lowered the voting age for next year's independence referendum to 16.

Christine Lagarde says that green energy innovation can spur job growth in roles that have not yet been invented.

Hours before the Senate votes on immigration reform, the Florida Republican defended it with a speech about the promise of America.

Amina Cachalia came from a prominent family of South African Indian activists.

The indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev came more than two months after the Boston attack.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry verbally attacked State Sen. Wendy Davis for filibustering SB-5, a bill that would have outlawed abortion after 20 weeks and placed other restrictions on abortion clinics in Texas.

Fourteen Republicans joined Democrats to invoke cloture on the 2013 immigration reform bill. A final vote could come at 4 p.m. today.

Thursday's outburst wasn't the first time the reputed mobster cursed in open court during his trial.

Will Asia's hottest new beaches be in North Korea? Kim Jong-Un announced plans for a beach resort on the eastern coast.

The NSA leaker is not in Ecuador yet, but thanks to this document he could get there easily.

The GOP senator says the Senate must show the House it can insert tough measures in the immigration bill.

Wendy Davis says that Republican Texas senators deliberately falsified voting times for an anti-abortion bill.

Manipuri’s monarchs – who have neither real political power nor authority – have struggled in recent decades.

As China slowly strays away from tradition and toward modernity, one unexpected industry is also affected.

A Killen Police Department detective initially said the substance tested negative for synthetic marijuana.