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SEATTLE, Washington: A Seattle man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup died Tuesday after being hit by a pickup truck on the Or

NEW YORK: This guitar may not quite gently weep, but it could at least make a well-heeled Beatles fan cry with happiness.

RIO ALEJANDRO, Panama: With jaws of steel that have earned him the nickname “Coconut Peeler,” Andres Gardin, at the tender age of 64, is hell-bent on gnawing his way into the Guinness Book of Worl

JOHANNESBURG: A safari lodge company based in South Africa says a field guide who was filmed while charging on foot toward an elephant has been dismissed.

Is it a boy? A girl?

GAZA: The fractious factions in the Gaza Strip and across the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories have found one voice to unite behind — a 22-year-old youth singing songs about a lost ho

WASHINGTON: It’s being called the first music video made in space.

NEW YORK: New York’s largest cemetery is the subject of a museum exhibition as it celebrates its 175th anniversary.

NEW YORK: Baby boomers, the generation that vowed to stay forever young, are getting older, designing senior-friendly gyms and becoming their own personal trainers.

India’s “Red Brigade” is a group of angry young women with a simple message for the country’s sexual predators: Change your ways or be ready to f