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Two US F-15 fighter jets on Saturday intercepted a small civilian plane flying near Camp David, the presidential retreat where Barack Obama is spending the weekend with his family. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said the jets intercepted the Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft...

(CNN) -- Somalia's interior minister was killed Friday in a suicide bomb attack carried out in his own home by a female bomber, Somali government officials said. The death of Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan was announced on state run radio by Somalia's deputy information minister. Hassan was briefly...

Abu Dhabi (CNN) -- Night after night, day after day, NATO aircraft have hammered presidential compounds in Tripoli, Libya. I have walked over the piles of rubble. What I and my CNN colleagues have seen, particularly in recent days, gives additional credence to reporting by CNN's counter...

(CNN) -- As a giant wildfire raged in Arizona Thursday, fire officials and power companies said they were planning for the possibility that the blaze would reach crucial transmission lines that supply power to thousands. "There's some power lines out there. There's also some fiber-optic lines...

(CNN) -- Facebook's computer systems will soon be able to recognize familiar faces. Facebook is making changes to the process for tagging friends in photos uploaded to the social network, the company announced on Tuesday. Starting in a few weeks, the system will scan all images posted to...

(CNN) -- A deadly bacterial outbreak that has killed at least 23 people in Europe is limited to an area around the German city of Hamburg and does not require Europe-wide controls, a top European Union official said Tuesday. "There is no reason as of today to take ... measures at (the) European...

Paris (CNN) -- A decree from the early 1990s, reimplemented by French regulators, is putting an end to French television and radio announcers naming social networking sites on air except for news purposes. The decree banned "clandestine advertising": the promotion of a brand outside the...

TRIPOLI British and French attack helicopters were used to strike inside Libya for the first time overnight on Saturday, hitting targets in the oil port of Brega as NATO forces stepped up their air war against Muammar Gaddafi. A NATO-led military alliance extended its...

A World Health Organization warning of increased brain cancer risk for cellular phone users had many alarmed but resigned to needing the devices to do their jobs. "It's really scaring me. Usually, I put it on a speaker, or I only use it in an emergency. And it is really scary because of my...

A sculpture meant to celebrate emancipation has sparked heated arguments in Jamaica's capital Kingston over its explicit portrayal...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi is emphatic he will not leave Libya, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday after talks with the Libyan leader that left prospects for a negotiated end to the conflict looking dim. But new questions emerged over how long Gaddafi could hold on after...

A devastated Englishman learned the horrible truth that his girlfriend was cheating on him - straight from his pet parrot's mouth...

PARIS, Texas - The last time anyone heard from Floyd Coker was 60 years ago. A prisoner of the Korean War, he was believed to be buried in a mass grave. But, the East Texas soldier has now been identified, and his remains are coming home Friday. It has led to a rush of memories for his family...

Engineers and geologists are examining dozens of deep holes that appeared in the ground in Quebec City's north end this week, as residents are being urged to leave their homes for safer locations. City officials served evacuation papers Wednesday to about 15 homes and one business in Quebec...

<div>WASHINGTON WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday credited the Obama administration's intervention for the American auto industry's recovery from "the brink of extinction" and pointed to Chrysler's early repayment of the federal loan that saved it from disaster. "This...

(CNN) -- Gil Scott-Heron, dubbed the "godfather of rap" for his mix of poetry and music, died Friday in New York, his publicist at XL Recordings said. He was 62. It was not immediately known what killed Scott-Heron, who was best known for the 1970 song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," a...

Nine people have been injured in a crash involving two transport trucks and several cars on the Coquihalla Highway south of Merritt, B.C. The B.C. Ambulance Service says two of the nine were taken to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, one of them in serious condition, accorsding to a report...

Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- A U.S. Marine who died in a flurry of bullets during a drug raid near Tucson never fired on the SWAT team that stormed his house, a report by the Pima County Sheriff's Department shows. The revelation was contained in an internal investigation released by the department...

<div>Comedian Milton Jones has performed a stand-up routine to a field of cows in an a-moo-sing experiment to prove they can laugh. Jones was joined by Mock the Week producers and cow expert Bruce Woodacre on a Hertfordshire farm for a set to test the reaction of a herd of fresians. The BBC...

(CNN) -- This time, there was no "gotcha" moment, no kill-the-messenger pushback. Asked for comment about a child born out of wedlock, Arnold Schwarzenegger's camp simply gave up the goods. It was quick, clean, surgical. Schwarzenegger wasn't given a way out, the reporter who broke the story...