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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was discharged from a hospital in Seoul on Sunday after being treated for a stomach virus.

Severe weather toppled trees, left more than a half-million people without power and suspended travel throughout much of the Northeast on Saturday.

Exposure to debris at Ground Zero may be linked to heart problems in police officers, according to a new study announced Saturday.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has extended the closure of the West Bank, initially scheduled to end Saturday night, for three more days, Israeli officials said Saturday.

A Colorado mother is being held in Ireland as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to kill a cartoonist who poked fun at the Prophet Mohammad, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Iran has arrested 30 people for waging what it called an organized, U.S.-backed cyber war against the nation, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported Saturday.

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Is the Coffee Party on the scale of the Tea Party movement? Saturday is the first big test in attempting to answer that question.

Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for a federal probe into the system of background checks for employees at nuclear plants after learning that a suspected al Qaeda member from New Jersey worked at five such sites.

A series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province today, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials said.

Singer and activist Annie Lennox wants the world to know that the HIV virus and the debilitating condition it causes, AIDS, are the leading killers of women of reproductive age in the world.

American figure skater Johnny Weir says he doesn't understand why the only ice skating tour in the United States doesn't want him.

The Pakistan Taliban says it carried out a suicide bombing that killed 13 people one day after twin attacks on a military convoy in Lahore killed 44 people.

As House Democratic leaders advised their members Friday to prepare for a legislative battle over health care that could stretch through next weekend, four additional rank-and-file Democrats have come out against the Obama administration's signature domestic priority.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul today for "minor stomach troubles," the state-run Yonhap news agency reported.

The closures of Statewide Bank in Louisiana and Florida's Old Southern Bank brought the number of bank failures this year to 30, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

The State Department condemned Iran's persecution of religious minorities on Friday following the Iranian authorities' detention of Baha'is and Christians in recent months.

Corey Haim's death is linked to an "illegal and massive prescription-drug ring," California's attorney general said. The coroner hasn't ruled on a cause of death.

For one New Yorker, the journey to the Pearly Gates involved a detour to the city's car pound.

Dozens of tips have poured in after California authorities recently released more than 100 photos of women and children that are believed to have been taken by a serial killer who appeared on the "Dating Game."