Islamic State jihadists have released a video in which a militant speaking English with a British accent beheads a man they claim to be an American journalist.
The journalist, claimed by Islamic State to be James Foley, has been missing since he was seized by armed men in Syria in 2012.
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A soldier in Afghanistan learned about the death of Osama bin Laden on Facebook. A TV producer in South Carolina got a tip from comedian Kathy Griffin on Twitter. A blues musician in Denver received an email alert from The New York Times. And a Kansas woman...
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Barack Obama hunting down, actually finding, and then killing Osama bin Laden spurred more knee-jerk internet reactions of people thinking they'd thought of something original since Balloon Boy was in the air. So, amidst a sea of poorly executed Waldo jokes and some really truly, horrible...
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Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, is dead, officials said -- almost 10 years after the attacks that killed about 3,000 people.
The founder and leader of al Qaeda was killed by U.S. forces Monday in a mansion in Abbottabad, north of the Pakistani...
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BP says it has temporarily stopped oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from its leaking well.
It is the first time the flow has stopped since an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig on 20 April.
The well has been sealed with a cap as part of a test of its integrity that could last up to 48...
US President Barack Obama has said it is "way too early to be optimistic" as he makes his third visit to the oil-hit Gulf of Mexico coast.
Earlier BP expressed confidence that a new cap placed over the ruptured well in the Gulf would capture most of the leaking oil.
But it said it could...