Eight people - including five children and three adults - have been found dead inside a Texas home and a man who exchanged gunfire with police has been charged with murder.
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FERGUSONP - Several hundred demonstrators have stood in silence at the spot where an unarmed black teen was shot dead by a white police officer one year ago, once again shining the spotlight on America's troubled race relations.
ROISSY-CHARLES DE GAULLE AIRPORT, France - A nine-year-old French boy who survived a desert hike in which his parents appear to have died of thirst has been flown home from the United States.
TOKYO - Japan has marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that claimed more than 74,000 lives, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came under fire for his attempts to expand the military's role.
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COLOMBO - The Maldives has joined a regional search for wreckage from missing flight MH370 following reports that islanders in the Indian ocean atoll nation have spotted unidentified debris.
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has refused to apologise for a crude attack on a female Fox News journalist, insisting he was misunderstood.
SINGAPORE - Singapore has celebrated the 50th anniversary of its independence with fireworks, a massive military parade and a tribute to late founding leader Lee Kuan Yew.
