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Security was tightened at Bihar's Patna railway station on Wednesday, after police received an unidentified SMS threatening that the station would be blown up.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled Congress' first hearing on the Planned Parenthood videos for next week. And the title they're using leaves little doubt about where Republicans who run Congress stand.

An image of a drowned toddler washed up on the beach in one of Turkey's prime tourist resorts swept across social media on Wednesday, after at least 12 presumed Syrian refugees died trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.

Scarface is a big, ugly yellowbelly rock cod who continues to patrol his favourite reef on the Wild Coast, seemingly against all odds.

Feeling guilty about buying that designer handbag and new pair of shoes? You're not alone.

Children's menus, NASCAR, and coffee tables were just a few of the strange by-products of prohibition.

Police in a Catalan town are complaining that they are "feeling the effects of smoking something illegal" due to the huge amounts of confiscated weed stored in the station.

Much of the blow from Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea fell on Ukraine’s navy, which lost two-thirds of its men, the majority of its ships and its Black Sea port in Sevastopol. The damage remains evident more than a year and a half later, according to U.S. Navy Vice Admiral James Foggo III.

Council planners have backed controversial plans to develop a former Ministry of Defence site.

Hatfield Fun Days won’t return this year, but the community will hold an event to showcase its new fire and rescue station.

Tomas Monzon
JOHNSON CITY, Mo., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Jeff Mizanskey, 62, walked out of a maximum security prison Tuesday after being in prison for more than 20 years for marijuana-related offenses.

Cyber security start-up taps into surging demand for protection against attacks

South Korea said it agreed with China to seek a three-way summit with Japan in late October or early November in a step toward easing tensions in the region.

The Pakistani army chief has confirmed death sentences of five hardcore terrorists involved in acts of terrorism and sectarian killings, the military said on Wednesday.

When Marine Jarrod Haschert posted a video asking for Ronda Rousey to accompany him to the Marine Corps Ball, he figured the most that would come of it would be some ribbing from his friends. However, the video went viral, and it is on the verge of paying off in an unimaginable way.

Last week, the FDA told Just Mayo maker Hampton Creek that it couldn't call its eggless mayonnaise "Just Mayo" anymore.

Tavares, uncle of 2009 first overall NHL pick John Tavares, played his entire 24-year career with the Buffalo Bandits

Essex head coach Paul Grayson leaves the county by mutual consent after eight years in charge.

Photo: Courtesy Thom Browne mania has hit Paris with the opening of an installation-cum-pop up store by the designer in the heart of posh Left Bank department store Le Bon Marché. While London has Savile Row, and Italy Naples, Browne, who recently acquired a tailoring facility in Long Island City, flies the flag for America’s tailoring tradition with a range of made-to-measure Made in New York suits (identified by a gray label in lieu of his signature tri-color tab) that were limited to his Hudson Street store…until now.

Great Britain's Kell Brook will defend his IBF world welterweight title against Argentine Diego Chaves on 24 October.

Interview Republic of Ireland and Colorado Rapids defender having the time of his life in land of opportunity

Bonn (AFP) - New satellite data reveals a rapid loss of tropical forests in Cambodia, parts of west Africa and Madagascar, and the Gran Chaco region of South America, analysts said Wednesday.

Amy R. Connolly
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. government awarded a $133 million contract to provide identity theft protection to some 21.5 million people whose private information was stolen.

The former Prime Minister says he did not consider enough the impact on UK national identity as a new poll shows a majority of Scots want independence.