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Thousands of Israelis marched calmly Thursday in Jerusalem's longest gay pride parade despite opposition from anti-gay demonstrators.

A Frenchwoman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Despite billions in aid from Washington and a shared threat from extremists, Pakistanis have an overwhelmingly negative view of the United States, according to results of a Pew Research Center poll released Thursday.

An assault victim was hit by a car and killed when he got out of an ambulance taking him to hospital, it has emerged.

Eighty people were killed late Tuesday in a ferry accident in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a government spokesman confirmed Thursday.

International scientists have injected fresh evidence into the debate over global warming, saying that climate change is "undeniable" and shows clear signs of "human fingerprints" in the first major piece of research since the "Climategate" controversy.

Arab nations on Thursday backed the Palestinian president's refusal to immediately restart direct talks with Israel despite heavy U.S. pressure.

A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.

Relatives desperate to find the bodies of loved ones joined emergency teams Thursday at the scene of Pakistan's worst-ever plane crash, but recovery work was badly hampered by thick mud, rain and slippery hillsides.

David Cameron insisted he had a duty to say what he thought as he rejected claims he had damaged relations with Pakistan.

Police have ruled out any crimes linked to serial killer Peter Tobin at a second seaside property where he used to live.

Tonga's government has agreed to deploy 275 soldiers to Afghanistan over the next two years to help guard a British garrison at the request of Britain.

In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, locals look at the scene of a landslide in Hanyuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province Tuesday, July 27, 2010.

The island chain, about 620 miles off Ecuador's coast, is home to unique animal species that inspired Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution.

Leaked military documents on the war in Afghanistan appear to provide details of the U.S. Army's search for an Idaho soldier captured last year by the Taliban.

A French couple were in custody today after police found the bodies of eight newborn babies on their property in a village in northern France, a judicial official said.

Foxconn's latest SNAFU thankfully does not involve workers falling off of buildings, or China either, but it's still an amazing story of another company screw-up. About 250 workers at the company's Chennai, India plant were hospitalized, and the illnesses "may have been caused by the routine spraying of pesticide at the production facility." The ...

Angelina Jolie says she's worried about the people of North Korea, particularly the persecution defectors face when repatriated to the reclusive state.

No one survived the crash of a Pakistani passenger plane that went down in the outskirts of the capital Islamabad Wednesday morning with 152 people on board, officials said.

A worker clears away blood and debris after a suicide attack on Shiite pilgrims in Karbala, 80 kilometers south of Baghdad, Iraq,Tuesday, July 27, 2010.