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A bomb in a market in Quetta, Pakistan, killed at least 60 on Saturday, police officials said, with more than 200 wounded.

Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to remain a resident of the Vatican will ensure his legal immunity and personal security.

Herman Cain, a candidate for the Republican Party's nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, has been hired as a contributor to both the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network.

Never mind the Arab Spring and Iran: Israel is safer than in recent years. Here are the top security threats that the country faces right now.

Former U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. is expected to plead guilty to charges associated with alleged misspending of $750,000 in campaign funds.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu really likes ice cream, to the tune of spending $2,700 on it last year.

Cohen, 63, is unmarried and has no other children, but, three years ago, he reportedly discovered that Victoria Brink was his daughter.

The current Turkish constitution was put in place more than three decades ago in 1982 by a military junta.

See the first-prize winners of the 2013 World Press Photo awards.

North Korea has informed its most significant ally, China, that it plans up to two more tests this year. Beijing may find this the last straw.

The Bongo family owned (or currently own) no less than 39 residences across France, including Paris.

The mid-air explosion of a meteor over Russia echoes another extraterrestrial encounter that occurred more than a century ago known as the Tunguska Event.

The meteor that rained down on central Russia and injured upwards of 1,000 people was not a celestial object at all, but a U.S. weapons test, claimed Russian lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

The automated messages claim that, despite the country's abortion ban, Irish doctors will intervene to save the life of a pregnant woman. But a leaked hospital investigation into Halappanavar's death suggests otherwise.

Half of adult men and a third of adult women in Taiwan are overweight or obese.

Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested 100 people for last week's witch burning and rescued two more women.

Negotiations continued between the Malaysian troops and about 100 Philippine men holed up in a village in Malaysia’s Sabah state.

The Indian army said that its troops killed a Pakistani soldier who strayed across the de facto border in Kashmir into the Indian-administered territory on Thursday.

The French did not officially relinquish the port city of Pondicherry back to India until 1954.

Gun homicides increased sharply after one state repealed its "permit-to-purchase" law in 2007.

In Ethiopia, only about 20 percent of the population has access to electricity but a new project could change that.

Activities around the new launch pad suggest the possible assistance from Iran, according to a U.S.-based research institute.

Police in Myanmar used white phosphorous grenades to disperse civilians protesting outside a controversial copper mine in November, a group of U.S. and Burmese lawyers claim in a new report.

U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., announced Thursday that at age 89, this will be his last term. He will not seek re-election in 2014, leaving the seat open for a battle among ambitious Newark Mayor Cory Booker and other New Jersey politicians.

A Canadian Parliamentarian made the odd yet hilarious decision to make the so-called zombie apocalypse the center of a hearty discussion during a Wednesday meeting of the House of Commons, and we've got the video to prove it.

Chuck Hagel's confirmation as secretary of defense was delayed Thursday afternoon as Senate Democrats fell one vote short of breaking an unprecedented Republican filibuster.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that New Yorkers arrested for marijuana possession will no longer have to spend the night in jail.

An Inspector General report found that LG Chem Michigan Inc. got $150 million in a green energy grant and has very little to show for it.

The government planned to curb fireworks during Lunar New Year festivities to limit smog, but it didn't quite work as planned.