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The captain of the Costa Concordia, the Italian cruise ship that hit rocks in 2012 and sank, has been convicted of multiple counts of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in the disaster that killed 32 people.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli tells our Newscast ...

Space, Douglas Adams wrote, is big. Really big. And from this vastness comes "an impressive new perspective" on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko taken by the Rosetta probe from about 77 miles away.

We won't disagree.

The European Space Agency, which operates Rosetta, says, "The image is the first single frame image capturing ...

At least 300 people who tried to cross the Mediterranean are missing, survivors of the crossing and the Italian Coast Guard tell the U.N. refugee agency.

They were among migrants and refugees mainly from sub-Saharan Africa who had sailed on four dinghies from the Libyan coast without food or water.

Updated at 11:24 a.m.

Chicago's Jackie Robinson West team, the first all-African-American team to win the U.S. championship, has been stripped of its title after Little League International said today that the team had violated residency rules.

Patrick Smith from member station WBEZ tells our Newscast unit that Little League ...

Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for being behind the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history, will write an opinion column for the Guardian's U.S. website, the site's editor-in-chief said.

Politico quoted a Guardian memo as saying Manning, ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today his country had a "profound disagreement" with the White House on Iran and he was "determined to speak before Congress" on March 3 on the Islamic republic's nuclear program.

"I am going to the United States not because I seek a confrontation with ...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, told a French court today that prosecutors had greatly exaggerated his participation in orgies, saying "there were only 12 parties in total."

Strauss-Kahn, whose career unraveled amid allegations he raped a maid in a New York hotel in 2011, is ...

Malaysia's top court upheld a sodomy conviction against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, leading to criticism from human rights groups and to Ibrahim calling the decision a "murder of judicial independence."

Ibrahim, 67, was accused in 2008 of sodomizing his driver — a crime in Malaysia even if it is consensual. ...

Updated at 11:01 a.m.

Kayla Mueller, the American woman taken hostage by the self-declared Islamic State, has died, her family and the White House said in separate statements.

As we reported Feb. 6, the Islamic State said Mueller, 26, died after Jordanian airstrikes against the militant group targeted the ...

Banking giant HSBC's Swiss operation hid millions of dollars for everyone from arms dealers to celebrities, said a news report based on leaked documents.

"The leaked files, based on the inner workings of HSBC's Swiss private banking arm, relate to accounts holding more than $100 billion," the Washington-based International Consortium ...

Updated at 1:05 p.m. ET

President Obama said "lethal defensive weapons" to Ukraine is one option being considered by the White House if diplomacy with Russia fails to end the fighting that pits Ukrainian troops with pro-Russia separatists.

"If, in fact, diplomacy fails, I've asked my team to look at ...

Add this to the list of evidence about, shall we call it, the rivalry between motorists and cyclists: The head of London's taxi drivers' association has compared cyclists to members of the self-described Islamic State.

Steve McNamara's comments come just days after London cleared the way for the spread ...

CNN is walking back from its interview with a pilot who appeared to partly corroborate NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams' account of being on a helicopter that took fire in Iraq on 2003.

The pilot, Rich Krell, said Thursday he was flying the helicopter that Williams was on, ...

Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels announced today they are dissolving parliament and taking over the country, cementing a seizure of power that began last September.

A televised statement read by an unidentified Houthi member called the takeover "a new era that will take Yemen to safe shores." He said the ...

Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman Amy Pascal, one of Hollywood's longest-serving studio heads and one of its most prominent female executives, is leaving her job, the studio said in a statement.

She will "launch a major new production venture at the studio," the statement said. "Pascal will transition to the new ...

Rocker Gary Glitter, best known for the stadium rock anthem "Rock & Roll (Part 2), has been convicted of sex offences during the 1970s and '80s against girls between the ages of 8 and 13.

The jury of seven women and five men convicted the 70-year-old of six offences, including ...

Taipei's mayor and others are hailing the pilot of TransAsia Flight 235, which crashed Wednesday shortly after takeoff, for steering the aircraft into a river and avoiding buildings and likely more casualties.

"We really have to thank that pilot," a tearful Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said of Liao Chien-tsung, the ...

Jordan's military conducted airstrikes against the self-described Islamic State militant group in both Syria and Iraq Thursday, a day after vowing revenge for the killing by the organization of a Jordanian pilot. The country, which is part of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State, delivered the news in ...

The toll in the deadly TransAsia crash has risen to at least 25, Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration said. Fifteen people were injured and another 18 are still unaccounted for, the agency said.

As we previously reported, Flight 235 was carrying 58 people, 31 of them from China, when ...

Updated at 6:09 p.m.

Brian Williams, the NBC Nightly News anchor, has acknowledged he was not aboard a helicopter that was hit and forced down by enemy fire during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. It's an about-face for Williams and the network, which for years claimed the anchor ...