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Russia has invaded the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and and is in the process of solidifying control of the isolated Black Sea region.  Only eight days ago, Ukraine's parliament deposed President Viktor Yanukovych afte...

French director Alain Resnais, whose films spanned French New Wave, surrealism, and British playwrights, has died at the age 91.

Rain is proving a painstaking job for Oscars ceremony organisers who are battling to stop the event turning into a damp squib.

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Want a different perspective on the crisis in Ukraine? Check out RT.com, the state Russian broadcaster that's tasked with improving Russia's image abroad (AKA: propaganda). The top stories currently are about how Crimea ...

At least 29 were killed and 143 wounded in a knife attack by a group in Kunming, the regional capital of Yunnan Province.     

Thousands in Hong Kong took to the streets on Sunday (March 2) to protest the stabbing of a former chief editor in an attack that has fuelled concerns about what many see as an erosion of media freedoms. Holding a banner...

Victims of a stabbing attack which resulted in the deaths of 33 people, including four assailants, and injured over 130 in southwest China said on Sunday (March 2) they were lucky to be alive. Patients with minor injurie...

Pakistani court convicts 6 in connection to reporter's killing, including 2 sentenced to death

Soldiers demanded Ukrainian forces surrender, official says Spokesman says 15,000 Russian troops in Crimea region No confirmation by Moscow Obama, Putin speak for 90 minutes, still at odds

BEIRUT (AP) -- Government airstrikes in a small northwestern town on the border with Turkey have killed at least 13 people, Syrian activists said Sunday.     

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli police say they will be closing the main highway to Jerusalem and the city's central roads for a massive rally of ultra-Orthodox Jews.     

Pro-Russian militia at the border take Sky's Katie Stallard to see weapons they claim were seized from the cars of Kiev gangs.

Dozens of people are feared dead after two explosions were reported in northern Nigeria.

U.S. and Russian leaders spoke by phone Saturday amid ongoing crisis in Ukraine. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports.

Chinese officials say separatists are behind an attack that leaves 29 people dead. CNN's David McKenzie reports.

Russian forces took over the Crimean peninsula without firing a shot Saturday, even as Ukraine's acting president announced that he had put the country's armed forces on high alert.

Foreign Secretary William Hague is due to visit Kiev amid growing tensions after the Russian parliament approved the deployment of troops to Ukraine.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will meet Monday in Geneva with Venezuela's foreign minister, who also will speak to the U.N. Human Rights Council about the recent weeks of violent stud...

KUNMING, China

More than 10 knife-wielding attackers slashed people at a train station in a southwestern city in what authorities called a terrorist attack by ethnic separatists in western China, and police fatally shot four of the ass...

George Lopez was arrested at Ceasars Windsor Hotel and Casino in Canada Thursday night for suspicion of public intoxication after he passed out on the floor, according to reports published Friday. Provincial police repor...