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The city of Berlin just banned Airbnb because it was swallowing up long-term rentals and driving up prices. Paris is now struggling to temper the explosion of the rental site for the same reasons.

New York police are working to track down the gunman who fatally shot the leader of a mosque in Queens and his associate on Saturday as they were walking home from afternoon prayers.

Eighteen months after Kadiza Sultana ran away from home to join the Islamic State militant group, her family lawyer says they've received word she has died in Syria.

At the end of 2015, 65.3 million people had fled conflict and persecution, the refugee agency says. That's one in every 113 people — or 24 people every minute. And very few found places to resettle.

Authorities in China have detained an 84-year-old dissident academic Sun Wenguang. They burst into his home and dragged him away just as he was being interviewed by U.S. government broadcaster, VOA.

The inventor of the green-bean casserole, Dorcas Reilly died on Oct. 15 at 92. This Thanksgiving, Campbell's Soup estimates the dish will be served and enjoyed in more than 20 million homes Thursday.

A songwriting duo from Paradise, Calif., wrote an ode to their hometown, destroyed in last month's Camp Fire, called "One of these days." They've just released a professionally produced version.

Kelsey Lu knew she wanted to play music from a young age. So, at 18, she left home to deepen that study. On her debut album, Blood, Lu explores what that decision meant.

Officer Amber Guyger, who is white, has told investigators that she mistakenly believed she had entered her own home. She was arrested on manslaughter charges and later released on bond.

"I escaped from the burning house right after I brought out my dog. I couldn't bring anything else with me," one man says of the rush to flee the fire.