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KATHMANDU, Nepal - A Nepalese official says 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura has become the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest.

Miura, who also conquered the 8,850-metre peak

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

CANNES, France - To convince Kristin Scott Thomas to play the bloodthirsty matriarch of "Only God Forgives," director Nicolas Winding Refn appealed to Scott Thomas — how else?

LONDON - Two men attacked another man near a London military barracks Wednesday, in what British authorities were investigating as a possible terror act.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man possessed by four different

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

WASHINGTON - The FBI says a man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation.

The shooting incident early Wednesday took plac

ORLANDO, Fla.

BRUSSELS - Two officials say Britain has launched a bid to formally have the European Union declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization.

That move would slap sanctio