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Home and Away actress fighting for life after crash kills both parents

The 50-year-old who was driving the other auto, Craig Anthony Whitall, was also killed. Falkholt played Hope Morrison on Aussie soap Home And Away in 2016...

White House magnolia tree to be cut back after 182 years

Trump, said Tuesday the first lady reviewed reports from the U.S. National Arboretum about the almost 200-year-old tree's condition and explored options with ...

Another Blast of Arctic Air Will Arrive For The New Year

Temperatures overnight will drop into the single digits, with mainly clear skies. Unfortunately, this will be the warmest day of the next seven. "Models are ind...

Malegaon blast case: Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col Prasad Purohit to face trial

The accused will now be tried under the Indian Penal Code and Section 18 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). All accused are already out on bail...

OH teens face murder charges in I-75 sandbag death

Sean Carter, 14; William Parker, 14; Pedro Salinas, 14 and Demetrius Wimberly, 14, originally faced felonious assault charges. The bag landed on a auto, crashed...

Syria: Eastern Ghouta medical evacuations begin following 'long negotiations'

The United Nations has pleaded to President Bashar al-Assad's government to allow evacuation of around 500 patients, who will die without any urgent medical car...

House uproar ends as govt, Congress truce up

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told the Upper House that she will give a detailed statement on Jadhav's meeting with his wife and mother on Thursday....

Led coalition says fewer than 1000 ISIS fighters remain in Iraq, Syria

At the moment, there are about 750 militants in Al-Shaddadah and 350 in Al-Tanf on the Syrian-Jordanian border, according to Gerasimov, who said the Russian mil...

2 children, 2 women killed in Troy homicide, police say

The police received a call about several unconscious people in a Troy apartment building around the same time, Troy Police Capt. Daniel DeWolf said. "This is ...

Who is Himachal CM Jairam Thakur

Thakur is the first chief minister from the second-largest Mandi district. While Thakur and seven others took oath in Hindi, Suresh Bharadwaj and Govind Thaku...

Parliament witnesses protests, adjournments over Hegde's remarks

The Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship at a function in Kukanur in Karnataka on Monday urged people to "claim with pride that they are Mus...

Local gas prices rising as 2017 draws to close

Average retail gasoline prices in Colorado have fallen 5.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.46 a gallon, according to GasBuddy's survey of 2,158 ...

Egypt convicts British woman of smuggling painkillers and imprisons her with jihadists

Plummer's family says she had no idea that bringing the painkillers to Egypt was illegal. Laura Plummer's sister Rachel said their mother had been denied ...

Dominion Energy Virginia sending crews to Puerto Rico in the new year

Beginning a 2,000-plus mile journey, equipment from Ameren, including trucks and trailers, is expected to roll out from St. Louis and Maryville, Illinois, as so...

Triple Homicide Victims Identified In Omaha

He was paroled in 2010. Dalton Jr. had been named as a person of interest in the slayings of 70-year old John W. Dalton Sr., his wife, 65-year old Jean Dalton...

Library of Congress will no longer archive every public tweet

In 2010, the Library of Congress announced the acquisition of entire archive of public tweet text beginning with the first tweets of 2006 through 2010, and cont...

Snow arrives; below normal temps expected later in week

Wednesday night, the low will be 14 with mostly cloudy skies and a southeast wind of 6 to 8 miles per hour, according to the weather service. Saturday's temp...

Ukraine crisis: Prisoner exchange begins

Journalists, activists and bloggers who had been accused of spying or treason were among those released. The transfer of 237 prisoners from the Ukrainian gove...

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton remain more admired man and woman in US

That's according to a new Gallup poll released Wednesday. Pope Francis came in third with 3 percent and Rev. Billy Graham, Sen. Overall, she has held the ti...

Palestine vows United Nations punishment for Guatemala's Jerusalem decision

Earlier this month, defying dire, worldwide warnings, Trump had declared Jerusalem as Israel's capital and directed the State Department to begin the process ...

Japan Offers to Host Israeli-Palestinian Peace Summit, With Kushner's Participation

During the meeting, the two officials also agreed on strengthening trade and investment relations between their two countries. Japan supports a two-state solu...

DJB approves 20 percent hike in water, sewer tariff in Delhi

Due to the hike, people will have to bear an additional burden of Rs 500 to Rs 600 crore. The hike of 20% means, one has to pay Rs 28 per litre extra every mo...

Cuomo is allowing New Yorkers to prepay their property taxes

On Tuesday, Oswego County government officials took advantage of a recent state executive order that allows tax payments to be collected earlier. The federa...

Anger at Pak treatment of Jadhav's wife, mother

Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar was also present. J P Singh, India's Deputy High Commissioner to Pakistan, was allowed to accompany Jadhav's wife and mother to...

Phoenix Man Kills Woman, 2 Children Before Shootout With Police

Phoenix police communicated with the shooting suspect, who barricaded himself inside one of the apartments. The suspect then told police that he'd shot two c...