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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...

A ten-year-old boy in Ireland has saved his sister from being abducted. The boy jumped onto a moving SUV to save his 12-year-old sister from a convicted sex offender. The children, along with a second brother, were playi...

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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,...

Two hundred tourists have had a dramatic rescue from stranded cable cars at a ski resort in northern Italy.

A Ukrainian military pilot breaks off her hunger strike after 83 days in a Russian prison.

To stop Putin's aggression, it isn't necessary for the west to defeat the entire Russian army: just a strategy to make him look like a loser When the Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in sight of t...

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

Two assailants slashed people at train station in southern city of Guangzhou before police killed one and captured the other At least two assailants armed with knives have attacked people at a train station in southern C...

Europe editor Katya Adler on the alarm at Russian muscle-flexing

Serious offences including violent and sexual crimes and persistent offenders are too often given a "just a slap on the wrist" with a caution, MPs say.