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AMIR COHEN/REUTERS Israeli far-right leader Avigdor Lieberman (left) is seen sworn in as Israel’s Foreign Minister at the parliament in Jerusalem on Monday. JERUSALEM — Hard-line Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman has been sworn in as the country’s foreign minister. Lieberman returns to the post after being cleared last week of all charges in a long-running corruption case. AMIR COHEN/REUTERS Israel’s ...

AP The European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite is set to plummet to Earth on Sunday night, but will likely land in water and will disintegrate while traveling through Earth’s atmosphere. The sky isn’t falling — just a 2,000-pound satellite. The European Space Agency says their research satellite that lost fuel in mid-October will likely crash into an ocean or the ...

As officials continue to count the number of victims authorities in the Philippines they are also dealing with problems to help the survivors. Super Typhoon Haiyan left as many as 10,000 people dead when it made landfall and stormed through six central Philippine islands on Friday, according to the latest projections, and now the country is working through other issues ...

STR/ASSOCIATED PRESS Armed members of the militant group al-Shabab attend a rally on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Feb. 13, 2012. The group is suspected to be behind an attack on a prison in Somalia on Friday. About 20 armed Islamic extremists attacked a prison in northern Somalia Friday in an attempt to free prisoners, according to a government ...

Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images King Albert II has raised the ire of citizens and politicians by asking for more allowance. Belgium’s former king has asked for money after complaining that $ 1.2 million a year was not enough to live on. Former monarch, King Albert II had asked for an increase in the amount of money he gets from the tiny ...

Semanario Zeta/via YouTube Video has surfaced of a party in Mexico where an assassin disguised as a clown opened fire on notorious drug lord Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix. Amateur video of the party where feared Mexican drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix has shown up on YouTube. In the footage, the killer is clearly seen — dressed in a bright ...

CBS Kevin Chenais’ mother, Christina, is irate that she and her son have been denied a return flight. A young French man who flew to the U.S. to receive treatment for a hormone disorder is grounded after the airline that flew him to the States deemed him too fat to fly. Kevin Chenais, 22, weighs in at about 500 pounds ...

NOAA/Reuters Super Typhoon Haiyan is seen approaching the Philippines in this Japan Meteorological Agency handout image taken Nov. 7. MANILA, Philippines  — The world’s strongest typhoon of the year slammed into the Philippines early Friday. It had been poised to be the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded at landfall, a weather expert said. “There will be catastrophic damage,” said Jeff ...

Sun News The disgraced executive punches his chest and yells: ‘I’ll make sure that m———-r’s dead.’ One day after Rob Ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine, a new video surfaced showing the disgraced Toronto Mayor acting unhinged and screaming threats. “I’m gonna kill that f—–g guy. I’m telling you, it’s first-degree murder,” a belligerent Ford is heard saying on the ...

Patricia Thomas/AP U.S. student Amanda Knox’s Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito sits with his lawyer Giulia Bongiorno. Sollecito appealed for an acquittal at the hearing Wednesday. The knife was used for cooking, not killing. Stunning testimony in the third Amanda Knox trial revealed Wednesday that new DNA found on the purported murder weapon belonged to the suspect — and not the ...