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The veteran of the Iran-Iraq War between 1980 and 1988 was shot by a sniper in Samarra.

Jeb Bush's lead over Chris Christie is significant because it's larger than the poll's margin of error.

K-pop label Feel Ghood Music says Sony never paid to use a song that appears in the film.

Rapper Eminem says he's gay, at least in the film, "The Interview."

It is the first time Agca has returned to the Vatican since 1981.

North Korea is pointing a finger at the U.S. over its Internet and 3G mobile network outages, but some speculate China could be involved.

The U.S. once offered $33 million for information leading to the capture of the al-Shabab militant leader and seven others.

The surge of Central American immigrant children into the U.S. rattled the immigration debate this year, and it may resurface next year.

North Korea says the U.S. president "is the chief culprit who forced" Sony Pictures to "indiscriminately distribute" the film.

The central bank is working to set a legal framework for the use of advanced e-commerce technologies, said India's central bank governor.

Officers attended the eight-hour-long wake of the New York policeman, who was killed along with his partner in Brooklyn Dec. 20.

The latest offensive comes barely a day after the army claimed it killed a Taliban commander who facilitated the Peshawar school attack.

The survey is one of the first to estimate quantities of marijuana being used in Colorado since its legalization in late 2012.

North Korea accused the U.S. of being behind a number of Internet outages that have occurred in recent days.

Doctors in Houston have decided to keep former U.S. President George H.W. Bush in the hospital for a fourth night since his bout with shortness of breath, though his condition has improved and he "remains in high spirits," his spokesman said Friday.

Critics of a new law signed by the state’s Republican governor say it unfairly stigmatizes the poor as drug addicts.

Most of the remaining Gitmo prisoners are either too dangerous or Yemeni, or both. And Yemen is one of al Qaeda’s global strongholds.

Sony's limited release of "The Interview" was inadvertently expanded as pirated copies appeared on the Web hours after its release.

The Dow recorded a new all-time high for the 38th time this year Friday as Wall Street capped off a record-breaking week.

The Islamic State group kidnapped the Jordanian pilot on a mission for the U.S.-led coalition in Syria this week.

Russia's newly updated military doctrine lists NATO and the U.S. as major military threats and outlines the use of nuclear weapons.