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Video posted to YouTube shows the scene of the attack in London's Woolwich area.

Europe's persistent downturn is showing few signs of abating.

Barry Blechman has seen the U.S. involved in many wars, some of which have taken very bad turns. He says we must think long and hard before engaging militarily in Syria or Iran

Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's (GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for... Bloomberg Businessweek http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emily-cohn/

Ibragim Todashev, law enforcement sources tell NPR and other news outlets, was being questioned about the 2011 killings of three men in Waltham, Mass. Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has also been linked to that unsolved case.

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Ibragim Todashev, law enforcement sources tell NPR and other news outlets, was being questioned about the 2011 killings of three men in Waltham, Mass. Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has also been linked to that unsolved case.

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(Repeats from earlier May 23 for wider distribution) By Joan Biskupic and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23 (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service... Reuters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reuters/

An 80-year-old Japanese man on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mt. Everest, officials said.

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Suicide bombers struck a military barracks and a mine run by French nuclear group Areva in Niger on Thursday, killing and wounding several people in separate attacks that showed the fight against Islamist militants was spreading across West Africa.

Gunmen shot dead five people, including four prostitutes, in Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province Thursday morning, police said.

A 5-year-old South Korean girl was killed when a man who jumped from his 11th floor apartment landed on top of her, police said.

After four decades of working in the entertainment industry, Janet Jackson is reportedly now a billionaire. Multiple outlets report that Variety tallied up the 47-year-old's... Stephanie Marcus http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-marcus/

The U.S. automaker's Australian unit will close its engine plant in Geelong and its vehicle assembly plant in Broadmeadows, with the loss of 1,200 jobs.    

    

Nearly a month after one of the world's worst industrial accidents—which killed more than 1,100 people, most of them female garment workers—survivors with debilitating injuries are facing an uncertain future.

MOORE, Okla. -- All that is left of Shayne Patteson's three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jessica-leader/

DETROIT -- Tesla Motors, which makes a highly acclaimed $70,000 electric car, has paid off a startup loan from the U.S. government nine years early.... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caroline-fairchild/

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's plan to spend $6.5 trillion on urbanization to bolster the economy is running into snags, sources close to the government said, as top leaders fear another spending binge could push up local debt levels and inflate a property bubble.

Westerners seeking work in places like Hong Kong and Singapore are finding that language skills — good Mandarin, in particular — have become more essential.    

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian opposition leader urged President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday to hand power to his deputy or his prime minister and then go abroad with 500 members of his entourage, without immunity from prosecution.