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A grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube shows smoke billowing from the Baba Amr neighbourhood in Homs.

Chef, author and food activist Bryant Terry's new cookbook, The Inspired Vegan, is loaded with unexpected delicacies.

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Libya has put 41 loyalists of dead dictator Muammar Gaddafi on trial in the first legal proceedings launched against members of the former regime which was ousted after a bloody conflict.

The death toll from fighting between Syrian government forces and civilians rose Sunday, a day after the United Nations Security Council failed to approve a plan seeking to halt the violence.

A legal bid to free five orcas from captivity on the grounds they are enslaved in violation of the US constitution is a "strategic error", conservationists warned.

Diana Sanchez Barrios, the first transsexual woman to seek a seat in Mexico City's municipal assembly, says she is confident of winning.

Sen. Mary Landrieu , D-La., last week accepted the 2011 Humane Horseman of the Year Award from the Humane Society of the United States.

A panel board that Ruth Loving show's of her life through the World War II years through her social activism in Springfield.

Rescuers are struggling to save more than 100 dolphins that have beached themselves on the shores of Cape Cod, Mass., over the past two weeks in what could be the largest single-species stranding ever in the northeast.

BEIRUT a Syrian forces hammered restive neighborhoods in the city of Homs for hours with mortars and artillery Saturday, sending terrified residents fleeing into basements and killing more than 200 people in what appeared to be the bloodiest episode of the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said.

In this citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and released Wednesday, Feb.

Computerworld - Fueled by a firestorm of outrage on Twitter and Facebook, the people behind the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Friday backed off their decision to cut funding of Planned Parenthood programs.

The star said he was also relieved to discover that his mother's brother, Michael Fieland, from Co Tipperary, had no part in the assassination of Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is criticizing Florida A&M University's decision to cancel a summer band camp and block students from joining clubs during a hazing investigation.

They are victims of a bad economy or sometimes, abusive owners: 70 horses confiscated from mid-Atlantic farms because of neglect.

Syrian forces have detained and tortured children as young as 13 as the government tries to crush an uprising that began nearly 11 months ago, Human Rights Watch said Friday as fresh clashes erupted between regime troops and rebels in the country's south.

The dog breed that played Toto in "The Wizard of Oz" might become a state symbol.

Amnesty International Canada says China's hunger for natural resources gives Stephen Harper the clout he needs to publicly raise the issue of human rights with his Communist hosts next week.

Hormel Foods Corp.'s company-owned farms are phasing out the use of small metal crates for confining pregnant hogs by the end of 2017.