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The death toll from the magnitude-7.1 earthquake in the central Philippines rose to 107 on Wednesday, authorities said.

A suspect was arrested in connection with one of the dry ice explosions at Los Angeles International Airport, police said Tuesday.

Michigan gay marriage ban approved by voters in 2004 could fall in legal challenge     

At least 14 people have died and hundreds of flights have been canceled as Typhoon Wipha pummeled the Tokyo area on Wednesday.

BEIJING (AP) -- Arrests have been made following massive anti-government protests in an eastern Chinese city hit by catastrophic flooding, an official newspaper reported Wednesday.     

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A cargo ship hit a seawall off South Korea's southeastern coast and partly sank in an accident that killed nine crew members and left two missing, coast guard officers said Wednesday. Eight cre...

The figure is actually a big drop from previous calculations

The attorney for a 14-year-old Florida girl charged with aggravated stalking that alledgedly led to the suicide of a 12-year-old classmate told CNN that her client isn't responsible for a controversial Facebook post that...

Brazil beset by protests since June.

LOON, Philippines (AP) -- The earthquake that struck the central Philippines and killed at least 144 people also dealt a serious blow to the region's historical and religious legacy by heavily damaging a dozen or more ch...

"Teen Spirit" and "Good Times" may be coming to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- sealed with a KISS.

DETROIT (AP) -- Michigan's ban on gay marriage is facing a major court test nine years after voters by a landslide said marriage is reserved for a man and a woman.     

Administrators in the southern Illinois city of Herrin have given the go-ahead for more cemetery excavation work intended to find the remains of victims of a violent 1922 labor strike.

In China, a sex scandal often involves public money, writes CNN's Kristie Lu Stout.

The famously anonymous British graffiti artist Banksy says he's on a "residency on the streets of New York." View some of his artwork from over the years.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal began hearing closing statements Wednesday in its first trial of top leaders of the 1970s communist regime widely considered responsible for the deaths of an e...

TOKYO/PERTH

Raymond Stevens, a New Hampshire tattoo parlor owner, has no criminal record, or any other obvious connection to a series of racist graffiti defacements in Concord during the fall of 2011.      

WASHINGTON

Nuclear safety violations across regions point to inconsistent oversight, gov't study says     

The Senate prepared to vote Wednesday on a short-term bill to end the partial government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, as House Republican leaders indicated they were ready to back down on their demands that the l...

Recent deportation of 15-year-old Leonarda Dibrani to Kosovo raises questions about France's treatment of Roma migrants.