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At least 160 flights cancelled after officials struggled to remove a plane that skidded off the runway at Kathmandu's airport on Wednesday.

ISIS has again destroyed cultural treasures, this time bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, state-run media says.

Massive craters are appearing in one of the most remote places on earth. CNN's Lynda Kinkade reports on this deepening mystery.

Assailants, one of whom was shot dead by police, injure nine people outside station in southern city of Guangzhou.

It will take about 2 to 3 weeks for the bruising and swelling to go down

CNN's Shasta Darlington explains the current state of Venezuela and how it got there.

Indian mob overruns prison, drags away and lynches man accused of rape

EUCLID, Ohio -- An 85-year-old man says his suburban Cleveland home has been pelted with eggs several times a week for a year, but police haven’t cracked the unusual case....

A dad who lost his 8-year-old son in the Boston terrorist attack brought jurors to tears Thursday as he recalled the final moments of his dying child. "I saw a...

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About 20,000 Iraqi army troops, Shiite militia members, and Iranian advisers are advancing on Tikrit, in Iraq's largest effort to retake a city from Islamic State control. ISIS is staging counter-attacks and, sources tel...

A federal judge was hospitalized late Thursday after being shot in what Detroit police say was an attempted robbery.

Here's something you don't see every day (or night): A giant panda walking through the deserted streets of a town in southwest China. Closed-circuit television captured the bear as it ambled down the road late one night,...

Manning's legal adviser called the new ruling "an important victory"

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Amid economic crisis, Venezuelans commemorate Chavez 2 years after socialist leader's death

He crashed onto a golf course near Santa Monica, California.

This weekend will mark a year since the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared soon after take off on route from Kuala Lumpar to Beijing.

A jury in Arizona failed to reach a verdict on Thursday in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias, sparing the former waitress from the death penalty for murdering her ex-boyfriend in 2008. Arias, 34, was found guilty of t...

Shaun O. Harrison, a former Boston English High School dean and Dorchester reverend, was arraigned Thursday after allegedly shooting a student 'execution-style' in Roxbury on Tuesday night.

The main border crossing between Egypt and Gaza will reopen once Egyptian authorities hand over control to the Palestinian Authority, the Egyptian ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, Wael Attia, reportedly told Egyp...

Purported Boko Haram militants killed dozens of villagers Tuesday in an attack on the village of Njaba in Nigeria's Borno state, according to various reports. Authorities did not learn of the assault until Thursday due t...