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Hurricane Alex is the first hurricane to form in January since 1938, but it is likely to lose its tropical characteristics by Friday afternoon
CIA operative Sabrina De Sousa, convicted of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric as part of an extraordinary renditions program, should be turned over to Italy to serve her six-year sentence there, court official says
British spaceman Timothy Peake and NASA's Timothy Kopra need to replace an electronic box that failed two months ago, slashing station power by one-eighth
Officials say six volunteers have fallen ill after participating in a clinical trial in the French city of Rennes and one of them is brain-dead
Biden had a meeting in Texas with Dr. Ronald DePinho, president of MD Anderson Cancer Center, whose Moon Shots Program has set out to end the dreaded disease
Coast Guard says two Marine helicopters have collided off Hawaiian island of Oahu
British-Iraqi designer Zaha Hadid alleged that Kengo Kuma's design borrowed from blueprints she made that organizers dropped last year
Assembly finally getting down to business of writing laws, but it's unclear whether socialist-controlled courts and other institutions will enforce them
Regional pilot program aims to relieve logjam of 8,000 Cubans trapped at Costa Rican border on way to US; ‘It's the need to have a better life,’ one man said of his journey
Nikola Gruevski has agreed to hand over to a candidate from his conservative VMRO-DPMNE party who will head a caretaker government
More than 650 complaints filed, mostly over sexual assaults and robberies; many cases implicate men of ‘Arab or North African’ origin
Tourism numbers have fallen in Egypt in tumultuous five years that followed 2011 revolution, and after suspected bombing of a Russian passenger jet flying over Sinai in November
Annual, high-profile meeting scheduled for later this month in Swiss ski resort of Davos
EU Migration Commissioner notes that up to 4,000 people were arriving daily in Greece over Christmas and New Year fleeing conflict and poverty
Leader of al-Qaida, al-Zawahiri, exhorted his followers to launch new attacks against the interests of the kingdom's ruling al-Saud family, which he called a 'rotten regime that corrupted your religion'
Ban Ki-moon says significant challenges remain and Ebola flare-ups can be expected in coming year
Henry Ramos, now second in the line of succession after President Nicolas Maduro's vice president, promises to be as polarizing as his socialist predecessor
Experts say battery life is constrained by limitations in chemistry, and improvements aren't keeping pace with demands from modern gadgets
Lego Group last year refused a bulk order for toy bricks for artist's exhibition in Melbourne, Australia, he called move 'an act of censorship and discrimination'
General Electric Co. cutting up to 6,500 jobs after buying big chunk of French engineering company Alstom, but sticking to pledges to create net 1,000 jobs in France
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