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Three winners hit $1.6 bn US lottery jackpot
Three winning tickets shared a $1.6-billion bonanza in the US Powerball lottery on Wednesday, after millions of people tuned in to see ...Astronomers spot brightest supernova yet in distant galaxy
Astronomers have found a distant supernova, or exploded star, 20 times brighter than the Milky Way galaxy, according to research published on ...EU Parliament delays vote on new car pollution limits
The European Parliament on Thursday postponed a vote on new car pollution limits that could have killed a compromise agreed by EU ...WHO declares Ebola outbreak over
The world breathed a sigh of relief Thursday as a two-year Ebola epidemic that killed 11,000 and triggered a global health alert ...Suicide bombers, gunmen kill at least seven in Indonesian capital
Militants launched a gun and bomb assault in the center of the Indonesian capital on Thursday, killing at least seven people, police ...Car bomb attack at Turkish police station kills 5
Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb at a police station in southeastern Turkey, then attacked it with rocket launchers and firearms, killing ...Iran released U.S. sailors in international waters
Iran released ten U.S. sailors on Wednesday after holding them overnight, bringing a swift end to an incident that had rattled nerves ...At least 15 dead in suicide bombing at Pakistan polio vaccination center
A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people, most of them police, outside a polio eradication center in Pakistan\'s western city of ...Obama tells anxious US to embrace change
President Barack Obama told Americans nervous about terror and a changing economy that they should not fear the future, in a farewell ...Oil prices fall below $30 a barrel
US crude prices fell below $30 a barrel for the first time in 12 years on Tuesday as OPEC member Nigeria called ...