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SEOUL — U.S. ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert was slashed in the face by a Korean assailant at a breakfast forum in the capital early...

BAYFIELD, Wis. — The ice caves of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore could open this weekend if windy conditions don’t spoil the fun. About 90 percent of Lake Superior is covered in ice, including the area that forms the path to ice caves near Bayfield, Wis. But what’s not...

(Reuters) - Missing from chapters on World War One in most U.S. textbooks is the name of Edward Mandell Stone, a 27-year-old Harvard graduate from Chicago who made history with his death as a machine gunner in France100 years ago this month. Stone was not fighting for his country....

PARIS (Reuters) - Hooded gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a weekly satirical magazine renowned for lampooning radical Islam, killing at least...

The selloff in global oil markets showed little signs of slowing in the new year, with prices down as much as 6 percent on Monday, the lowest...

Oil prices dropped to fresh 5-1/2-year lows on Monday on worries about a surplus of global supplies and lackluster demand.

A Yeoman Warder walks Wednesday through ceramic poppies that form part of the art installation “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” at the Tower of London in London. The evolving art installation will be completed on Nov. 11 when the 888,246th poppy will be planted. Each poppy...

FARGO, N.D. — The American Sugar Alliance has praised the tentative agreement between the Mexican and U.S. governments to place limits on Mexican sugar shipments to the U.S. and to suspend the anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations of sugar from Mexico. However, the...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A gunman attacked Canada's parliament on Wednesday, with gunfire erupting near a room where Prime MinisterStephen Harper was speaking, and a soldier was fatally shot at a nearby war memorial, jolting the Canadian capital.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A gunman shot and wounded a soldier in Ottawa and then entered the country's parliament buildings chased by police, with at least 30 shots fired, according to media and eyewitness reports on Wednesday.

WILLMAR — A Willmar man has launched a multi-national effort to raise awareness of soil and water management that will continue three decades of work started by his brother, who was killed when an airliner was shot down in Ukraine. Drew Ryder, president of Feedlogic Corporation...

The full moon turns red during a total eclipse early Wednesday morning. The moon is seen here about 5:50 a.m. behind a statue of Josias R. King...