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Former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch (C) arrives for a closed-doors deposition before House committees leading the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, on October 11, 2019

Declaring that the highest court in the land has now spoken, President Barack Obama vowed to press ahead with implementing the sweeping health care reform law whose constitutionality the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed on Thursday.

With all of its contradictions, Azerbaijan is a complex country to fully figure out: Its tangled friendships and autocratic policies are often puzzling as are its relations with the West. But its obsession with oil is as undiluted and unwavering as anything the country has ever done.

Hailed as an African reformer, Yoweri Museveni has now become an autocrat who bends the rules to stay in power and hands favors to his family. Nothing new for Africa, unfortunately -- but the exact opposite of what he himself once pledged.

Steve Doocy, a Fox News commentator and co-anchor of the hit morning show FOX & Friends, is in hot water for misquoting President Barack Obama during a televised interview with Mitt Romney.

Will charges be dropped in Mark Abaire's $1 felony case in which he is accused of stealing $1 worth of soda from a Florida McDonald's and now faces up to five years in prison if convicted of the charges?

Michelle Obama may be on the top of every fitness magazine's toned arm list, but back during her senior prom years before becoming First Lady, it was all about her gams. On Monday's episode of Ellen DeGeneres, Michelle Obama showed viewers via video chat her senior prom photo, where she donned an Angelina Jolie-style dress with a high slit that showed off her leg.

Thousands of workers who suffered health problems after the September 11 attacks in 2001 have reached a settlement worth up to $657.5 million with an insurer representing the city of New York, city officials and lawyers said on Thursday.

A tsunami alert has been announced Thursday for Chile's fourth and tenth regions following a magnitude 7.2 aftershock this morning.

U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults' calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.

Chile's huge earthquake on Saturday morning was followed by big aftershocks.

Hawaiian authorities sounded alarms across the island on early Saturday morning, and are evacuating 100,000 residents and tourists.

The Civil Defense in Hawaii has urged all residents to prepare for a possible tsunami on Saturday, following a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Chile which sent waves across the Pacific Ocean.

Hawaii announced a tsunami warning on Saturday , after a massive earthquake off Chile sent waves across the Pacific Ocean.

A second major snow storm struck the Northeast, leaving at least 700,000 homes and businesses without power, and all New York City public schools closed for the day.

Dubai Mall, one of the world's largest shopping centers and a symbol of Dubai's grandeur, was partly closed on Thursday after an aquarium containing thousands of fish and other sea animals started leaking, police and witnesses said.

A hormone thought to encourage bonding between mothers and their babies may foster social behavior in some adults with autism, French researchers said on Monday.

Two Belgian trains, carrying a combined 300 passengers, were involved in a head-on collision today.

People are afraid to lose money and an unusual study released on Monday explains why -- the brain's fear center controls the response to a gamble.

The Lancet medical journal formally retracted a paper on Tuesday that caused a 12-year international battle over links between the three-in-one childhood MMR vaccine and autism.

President Barack Obama made Haiti relief efforts a top priority for the U.S. government on Thursday.

Traumatized Haitians slept out in parks and streets on Thursday, fearing aftershocks to the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people.

A major earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and left the Caribbean nation appealing for international help.

Rescue crews on Saturday intensified the search for victims at a plush Brazilian beach resort ravaged by mudslides and flooding that have killed at least 64 people in three states.

Oman's minister of finance forecast on Saturday GDP in real terms for 2010 at 6.1 percent, and inflation at 3.5 percent, without giving comparative figures for the previous year. Ahmad Mekki, who is also the minister of national economy, told reporters that Oman's total debt as of the end of 2009 stood at 722 million Omani riyals ($1.88 billion), with domestic debt accounting for 252 million riyals of the total figure.

Hurricane Bill weakened to post-tropical storm status on Monday after lashing Eastern Canada with heavy winds and rain and pounding the U.S. East Coast with heavy seas that killed two people.

Hong Kong on Thursday opened its first DigPlayground at Cyberpor, which is also the first unique outdoor digital playground in Asia.

Income investors are snatching up a new form of pseudo municipal bonds known as Build America Bonds (BAB).

The World Health Organization reported on Monday that 985 cases of influenza A (H1N1) have been reported across twenty countries.