Turkish prosecutor taken hostage

Armed men take hostage a Turkish prosecutor heading an inquiry into the death of a boy during anti-government protests in 2013.



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France scraps payment for sex fines

France's Senate rejects a planned 2013 law penalising people who pay for sex and decides to maintain the offence of soliciting.



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Opinion: Let's be honest about what this was

Suicide has made the news again, even though we won't call it that. Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed a plane into the Alps, taking his own life and the lives of 149 others.

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The skyscraper that casts no shadow

An architecture firm has designed skyscrapers they claim will increase the amount of light that reaches the ground.

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Obama to Offer Major Blueprint on Climate Change

The president’s plan, likely to draw opposition from Republicans, would cut greenhouse gas emissions in the United States 26 to 28 percent by 2025.





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First Words: How ‘You Do You’ Perfectly Captures Our Narcissistic Culture

On the popular phrase and its tautological siblings, “Haters gonna hate” and “It is what it is.”





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Thai PM plans martial law replacement

Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha says he has asked for permission to end martial law, replacing it with new curbs.



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Boston bombing jurors weep

Prosecutors presented gruesome testimony about how a bomb Dzhokar Tsarnaev placed at the Boston Marathon tore through the bodies of 8-year-old Martin Richard and 23-year-old Lingzi Lu. FULL STORY

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Prisoner grabs gun, escapes in hospital gown

A Virginia prisoner managed to escape from a hospital room early Tuesday after grabbing a security guard's gun and running off in a hospital gown, authorities said.

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First Draft: Today in Politics: Choosing Just the Right Stage to Set

The first week of April might be remembered as the final moments of pre-campaign calm.





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Gunmen have taken a prosecutor hostage at a court in Istanbul, according to Turkish media.



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The boy who disappeared from his home in the early hours of the morning needs to be found so he can get treatment, say police.



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Anger over Foxx's Bruce Jenner joke

Some viewers of the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Sunday night took to social media to vent about the opening monologue, saying one controversial joke crossed the line.

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Deal or not, Iran's a winner in nuke talks

Deal or no deal in the Iranian nuclear talks, Tehran is already behaving like it's made a killing.

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Opinion: 'Daily Show' missed an opportunity

As a person-of-color, African-American, veteran minority journalist and longtime enthusiast of all things "Daily Show," I am of course as happy, proud and thrilled as the wife of a successful Apollo astronaut over the impending ascension of Trevor Noah, the biracial comedian from South Africa, to Jon Stewart's anchor chair on what's believed by many to be the most trusted half-hour of news and information in America.

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38 amazing sports photos

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