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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his suave wife Asma are reportedly preparing to welcome a new addition to their family.

Yemeni forces intercepted a ship last week carrying a large cache of weapons -- including surface-to-air missiles -- that may have been smuggled from Iran for Yemeni insurgents, U.S. officials said Monday.

On Monday, the United States Senate approved a $50.5 billion Superstorm Sandy relief bill. The aid package has been debated for several months and passed the senate by a 62-36 vote; the senators who opposed the bill were all Republicans

An inflammatory documentary claims Ethiopian immigrant women were forced to take shots of contraceptives, or risk being barred from Israel.

The 20th summit of the African Union came to a close in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with most problems unresolved.

Kimberly McCarthy will become the first victim of a rare female U.S. execution in more than two years if she gets a lethal injection Tuesday in Texas as planned.

Sources in North Korea are reporting that a famine has claimed 10,000 lives. People are so desperate that some may have resorted to cannibalism.

President Joyce Banda had been seeking to sell the jet since last May.

Taiwan’s billionaire business mogul Samuel Lin has put up over $100 million of his personal fortune to establish a grant foundation that will award what are being referred to as the “Asian Nobel prizes.”

Lawyers for accused Sept. 11 attack conspirator say information obtained from him under torture is unreliable and urged government to discuss detention facilities.

The Boy Scouts is looking to remove gay restrictions from its national policy. Here's the full text of its announcement.

Iran has vigorously denied swirling media reports that there was a blast on Sunday at the Fordow nuclear facility.

Argentina and Iran have agreed to set up a judicial commission to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

The anti-gay policy at Boy Scouts of America appears to be close to an end.

Nepal is one of most dangerous countries in the world for media workers.

Tory MP Richard Graham sparked outrage in the UK after a comment saying women who wear short skirts and high heels run the risk of being raped.

A woman who lamented the loss of her three children to guns now has lost her fourth, and final son, to the same plague.

The defeated vice presidential candidate urged conservatives to wait for Obama's second-term promises to fall short, then take the lead.

On Nov. 28, 1942, 492 people died in a massive fire that swept through The Cocoanut Grove, one of the most prominent nightclubs in Boston, Mass.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who's leading the push to restore an assault weapon ban, acknowledged on Sunday that the effort faces tough odds to pass Congress and she blamed the NRA.

However, the popular DREAM Act is notably absent from a plan that aims to simplify the process of legalization for undocumented immigrants.

Emigration spiked by 85 percent in 2011, with people between the ages of 25 and 29 forming the bulk of those departing.

Clashes between protesters and Egypt’s security forces near Tahrir Square continued Monday despite a state of emergency declared in three hardest hit provinces.

The Tuaregs in Mali have been engaged in periodic rebellions for the past 50 years.

Board says one of the six accused sex predators and killers in the infamous Delhi gang-rape case is a minor.

India and Pakistan have resumed cross-border trade and bus services, which were suspended for more than a fortnight.

Japan will boost its military headcount, the biggest increase in two decades, in order to increase surveillance of disputed waters.

Though President Obama is a noted fan of football, he stated in a recent interview that if he had a son, he would be extremely cautious before letting the hypothetical child play football due to the extreme physical toll it can take on a body.

U.S. fiscal sequestration is likely, according to Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee.