North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed several top officials in the wake of a recent standoff with South Korea, state media reported Friday, in personnel changes that suggest that Kim was holding them responsible for the confrontation that developed in a way that he did not expect. … [Read more...]

An 8 year-old boy who became the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant has left the Philadelphia hospital where the procedure was done and was returning to his Maryland home. … [Read more...]

Chinese prosecutors have detained 11 government officials and company executives over a massive warehouse explosion that killed at least 139 people in the country's worst industrial disaster in recent years. … [Read more...]

Sophie Nord couldn’t believe what she saw on TV. The columned two-story Queen Anne home that stood for more than 100 years - and housed her parent’s restaurant, The Chimneys - had been reduced to splinters, the historic columns and white shutters thrown about in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. … [Read more...]

The bodies of at least 20 refugees — and as many as 50 — were found Thursday in a tractor-trailer abandoned on the side of the road in eastern Austria near the Hungarian border, according to multiple media reports. … [Read more...]

The father of a Virginia-based reporter slain during a live television segment Wednesday says he hopes to find purpose in his daughter’s death by pushing for stronger mental health screenings for prospective gun owners. … [Read more...]

Defendant Owen Labrie, who is accused of raping another student at a prestigious New Hampshire prep school, took the witness stand in court today, describing how he and the alleged victim had flirted in the year leading up to the incident at the heart of the case. … [Read more...]