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Convicted 52-year-old found hanging in his cell; review of incident underway

The dogged warhawk won't support the Senate's measure in its current form, noting that the limited actions don't go far enough in response to Assad's chemical weapons attack

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican is ramping up its opposition to threatened military strikes against Syria.     

PARIS (AP) -- France's government offers a preview Wednesday of what the Obama administration faces next week, as lawmakers debate the wisdom and necessity of a military response to a chemical weapons attack in Syria tha...

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese authorities said Wednesday that they suspect that the woman who gouged out a 6-year-old boy's eyes was his aunt who later killed herself, adding a surprising twist to a gruesome case with conflict...

Today in show business news: Beloved Benedict Cumberbatch is going on a mission into the Amazon, Michelle Williams takes on Broadway, and Dancing with the Stars has a new class of dancers.     

South Korean lawmakers "voted overwhelmingly" to support the arrest of one of their colleagues on Wednesday after he was accused by the country's intelligence service of trying to overthrow the government if war broke ou...

TOKYO (AP) -- New revelations of contaminated water leaking from storage tanks at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant have raised alarm, coming just weeks after Japanese officials acknowledged that...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq has awarded oil drilling deals worth a combined $348 million to two Chinese firms and Swiss-based oilfield services company Weatherford.     

A dinner out turned into an experience of a lifetime for a North Carolina family thanks to one stranger's heartfelt gesture.

Your wrist is expected to be the next battleground in the war between Samsung and Apple. CNN's Isa Soares reports.

The Palestinian delegation did return to real recently renewed peace talks after Israeli forces' raided a refugee camp in north Jerusalem on August 26, killing three. This was not the only lethal Israeli attack to take p...

A discussion of the possible consequences of U.S. surgical strikes aimed at degrading Syria's capabilities for using chemical weapons.

After two days of intense Internet criticism, Good Part of Town — the start-up formerly known as Ghetto Tracker before the company realized the name wasn't "serious" enough — has shut down.     

The U.K. parliament would prefer you didn't think its workers spend all day looking at porn.      

Jon Stewart's return to The Daily Show desk was not just a boost over John Oliver's stint as host—though that was probably to be expected—but also gave the show one of its best numbers of the year.      

The continued unrest in Egypt following the overthrow of the country's democratically-elected president in early July hasn't just been sidelined in the news cycle by the past fortnight's focus on Syria.     

A new time and opportunity are on the horizon. It is a time when those who have the best interests of humanity at heart can forge a new form of life that can lead to a time, as one wise individual put it, when "the prese...

The Zionist lobby in the US is pushing us to attack Syria.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Brazil's lower house has voted to end the system of secret voting in the national legislature.     

The beautiful scene seen through the southward-faced window, flowers, the wide and square road, which is seen up to the distance - these are also the synonyms of mine to live.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A former police detective who co-owned a smoke shop was sentenced Wednesday to more than two years in prison for his participation in a scheme to direct illegal campaign contributions to the fail...