DEARBORN, Mich. -- After growing religious tensions, the annual Arab International Festival has been canceled for the first time in its 18-year history, organizers said Friday.
"We're very sad that we had to postpone it," Fay Baydoun, director of...
NEW DELHI -- Myanmar President Thein Sein released some 20 political prisoners Friday, just days before a historic summit with President Barack Obama in Washington early next week, according to officials and prisoner rights groups.
The ex-general...
LOS ANGELES -- It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby.
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President Barack Obama told several hundred people gathered at a Baltimore manufacturing plant on Friday that he would keep his administration focused on the economic recovery -- despite a series of political scandals that have rocked the ...
BEIRUT -- Three United Nations observers posted in the buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights were seized by armed anti-government forces and held for five hours this week before being released unharmed, the U.N. said.
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A U.S. sailor was killed and seven people were injured in a training exercise for SEAL forces in Fort Knox, Ky., officials said Friday.
The accident took place Wednesday night during a training exercise that involved a Humvee vehicle that ...