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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper condemned an opposition plan to gain power by ousting his government in a confidence vote, calling the effort undemocratic.

She may be the only person in the world to remember him fondly, but a woman who worked as a maid for Adolf Hitler in the '30s says he was 'a great boss,' the Daily Mail reports.

The mother of young British girl has been convicted, along with her boyfriend’s uncle, of kidnapping her own nine-year-old daughter in an unlikely plot to keep thousands of pounds in reward money.

Airports in India went on high alert Thursday following fresh attack warnings as officials said India suspects two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated the deadly Mumbai attacks.

A 21-year-old man was taken to hospital after he fell about 25 feet from the upper deck of Scotiabank Place during the second intermission of the Ottawa Senators’ victory over the Atlanta Thrashers on Wednesday night.

As more than 10,000 delegates and observers gather in Poznan, Poland, to discuss the next phase in the battle against "climate change," a U.N. agency at the center of that hoopla badly needs to do some in-house weather-proofing.

Iraq's presidential council on Thursday approved a security pact that sets out a three-year timeframe for U.S. troops to leave, a spokesman said, the final step for the agreement to replace a U.N. mandate that expires Dec. 31.

At least three U.S. residents have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in as many weeks as the death toll in the violent border city surpasses 1,400

Israel is drawing up plans to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and is prepared to launch a strike without backing from the U.S., an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.

Mexico is sending illegal Cuban migrants home for the first time under a new immigration accord. A Mexican immigration official says authorities are preparing to send the Cubans back to the communist island after they were caught in Mexico.

Suicide bombers killed 17 people -- including two American soldiers -- and wounded more than 100 in a string of blasts in two Iraqi cities Thursday as a timetable for withdrawing all U.S. troops won final government approval.

A police official says security forces have swarmed through New Delhi's international airport after the sound of gunfire was heard, but no one was injured.

Zimbabwe has declared a national emergency over a cholera epidemic and health care system collapse, and is seeking more international help to pay for food, drugs and hospital equipment, the state-run newspaper said Thursday.

Iraqi officials say suicide bombers in two explosives-laden trucks targeted police stations in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens more.

A Japanese climber was plucked alive by rescuers from New Zealand's highest peak shortly after dawn Friday, but his companion was found dead, searchers said.

The Argentine navy says a cruise ship carrying 122 people is adrift and taking on water in Antarctica but is in no danger of sinking.

Israeli security forces on Thursday began dragging Jewish settlers out of one of the most volatile flashpoints in the West Bank: a disputed house in the biblical town of Hebron.

Dozens of young Somali men in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have disappeared in recent months, causing community members and U.S. intelligence officials to fear that they are joining jihadist groups in Somalia.

Thailand's revered king on Thursday failed to deliver his traditional birthday speech, dashing Thai hopes that the address would help resolve the country's political paralysis and unify a divided nation.

EU offices scrap espresso machines after lab results show they are poisoning top officials.