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A Dutchman planned to use a crane to perch himself outside his girlfriend's window. He wanted to serenade her before popping the question. Even though the crane tipped over, she said yes.

A gunman held a number of hostages at a downtown chocolate cafe. Police put a swath of Australia's largest city under lockdown before swarming the cafe.

The situation began unfolding during morning rush hour, when a gunman entered the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in downtown Sydney. The gunman and two others died after police stormed the cafe.

Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe's resignation may be too late to repair the political damage to the president. Protests have increased over long overdue elections and allegations of corruption.

Code Switch contributor Alex Laughlin explores the nuance and meaning of an increasingly popular identifier.

Even in an age of galloping ambition, the Texan rides ahead of the pack. Obama liked to quote Martin Luther King's line about "the fierce urgency of now," Cruz seeks to embody it at every turn.

Subsidies created by the health law to help workers buy their own coverage and steady increases in companies' insurance costs have made it easier for them to decide to discontinue health insurance.

A list of planned reads for Likely Stories in 2015.I’m Jim McKeown, welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and…

The region claimed is more than the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined. The energy-rich Arctic is also contested by Canada, Russia, Norway and the U.S. A U.N. panel will study the Danish claim.

Officials say the gunman is Bradley William Stone, 35, who also left one person seriously wounded. Victims were shot in three different Montgomery County towns, officials say.