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The United States will keep applying the utmost pressure on al-Qaeda, even after its former leader Osama bin Laden was removed, according to comments made by U.S. President Barack Obama during a White House press conference.

A protest in Chile turned to Zombies and the King of Pop for support.

The continuation of eating dog and cat meat clashes with China's growing love for house pets.

The Sixth U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati Wednesday ruled that the new U.S. health Care law's mandate that everyone purchase insurance is constitutional, handing the Obama administration a victory.

A group opposed to gay marriage said it will spend at least $2 million to oust seven New York state senators who changed their positions on gay marriage, The Associated Press reported.

Expert testimony has claimed that the DNA evidence used against Knox is unreliable.

The number of Egyptians injured in protests today is actually more than ten times the amount reported by international media this morning.

North Korea will close down its universities for the next ten months and pressure students to work in farms, factories and in construction, according to reports.

As firefighters continue to battle flames near the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and its stock of nuclear materials, nearby residents are growing anxious about smoke from the blaze dispersing toxic chemicals.

David Cameron is looking to the Adriatic Sea for an indication of what might happen in Britain should austerity measures be passed.

President Barack Obama praised New York’s passage of same-sex marriage but refused to take a hard line on the issue at an East Room press conference at the White House Wednesday.

An unnamed Palestinian prostitute accused of prostitution and identity theft was finally sentenced to one year in prison today in Dubai, according an article from The National.

It's not that I missed the protest, per se, but rather that I missed the cultural awareness that it takes to be present in a city that I now understand I was merely passing through.

While the passage of the bill gives Greece some breathing room, lowers the risks of an immediate default and will keep the country afloat, the actual implementation of the budget may be very difficult -- if not impossible.

Thousands of migrant workers from South Asia are trapped in southern Libya, near the border of Chad, according to a report from The International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Just days after he marched with Gov. Andrew Cuomo to champion his same-sex marriage victory, Mayor Michael Bloomberg blasted Cuomo's plans to close the Indian Point nuclear plant.

Sarah Palin wondered out loud to a reporter why celebrities are so full of hate towards her. Palin made the comments in Pella, Iowa after a screening of The Undefeated, an upcoming documentary about her political career.

Passengers departing from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport had to wait Wednesday morning as airport officials cleared about 150 turtles from the runway.

An Iraqi court has sentenced the widow of al-Qaeda’s local chieftain to life in prison for helping her husband carry out terrorist attacks.

The appeals trial for an American girl incarcerated in Italy for a grisly murder took an interesting turn this week.

President Barack Obama said gays and lesbians should receive equal treatment but stopped short of endorsing gay marriage during a news conference Wednesday, carefully parsing his answers to questions about New York's landmark same-sex marriage law.

A Manhattan grand jury has found a second defendant not guilty of all charges in the Deutsche Bank manslaughter trial after eight days of deliberations.

President Barack Obama, in his Wednesday news conference, did not mince words regarding Congressional Republicans' position on the debt ceiling.

Nigeria has imposed a limited curfew on the capital city of Abuja following a series of deadly attacks by an Islamist terrorist group called Boko Haram.

The lawmakers in the city of San Francisco, after banning McDonald's Happy Meals, plastic bags, and the sale of bottled water, are now weighing a proposal to ban people from buying and selling of pets.

California passed its budget on time, something that is a rarity in the state, and on paper it closes a $9.6 billion deficit. But both Democrats and Republicans criticized the final outcome, whose deficit-ending dimension assumes that economic growth will accelerate.

While the passage of the bill gives Greece some breathing room, lowers the risks of an immediate default and will keep the country afloat, the actual implementation of the budget may be very difficult -- if not impossible.

China is criticizing the US' Senate's interference in the mounting geopolitical struggle for the South China Sea.

Angering many in Greece, the government has passed unpopular austerity measures. Protestors took to the streets.