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Forty-eight years after the original "Sound Of Music" hit the big screen, Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moyer are getting ready to step into some pretty epic shoes: Maria and Captain von Trapp's. As longtime "Sound Of Mus...

At least 20 feared dead as suicide bombing rocks the defence ministry complex in the capital, followed by firefight.

Amnesty International releases new images of a North Korean prison camp. CNN's Paula Hancocks explains.

Ten pilot whales have died and at least 41 others remain stranded in the Florida Everglades after appearing in the area's shallow waters earlier this week.     

MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian court sentenced 14 Rohingya asylum seekers from Myanmar to nine months in jail for their role in a deadly brawl at an detention center that left eight Buddhist fishermen from their ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council is set to authorize increased military action by France and African troops to try to end near-anarchy in the Central African Republic, which has seen an upsurge in Muslim-...

WASHINGTON

A yellow jumpsuit worn by martial arts legend Bruce Lee in one of his final fight scenes goes on sale in Hong Kong on Thursday.

Mexican troops guard recovered cobalt as experts discuss how to safely contain it again     

Do intimate acts count as working out?     

It was 11 March 2011, and I remember standing in the newsroom that Friday afternoon glued to the television watching the horrific images coming out of Japan.

Interviews and wiretaps suggested that Mayor Rob Ford regularly used drugs, the Toronto police wrote, and that dealers discussed blackmailing him.     

The general, who led the ouster of Egypt's President and installed an interim government, beat Turkey's Prime Minister and pop star Miley Cyrus

The Obama administration faced renewed criticism Thursday for entering nuclear talks with Iran without first demanding the release of U.S. citizens, following reports that imprisoned pastor Saeed Abedini is facing threat...

NGOs criticise Islamist-led government for trying to revise a long-awaited bill aiming to fight violence against women.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- Ten people were killed Wednesday in a confrontation between police and an armed group in northern Nicaragua, officials said.     

Beijing's air defense identification zone is a move to assert creeping sovereignty over disputed islands in the East China Sea

With shaky truce after political violence, Thailand awaits aging monarch's message     

Swiss researchers who ruled Yasser Arafat was poisoned stand by their claims despite conflicting French findings.

The late South African President reflects on his imprisonment and his fight against apartheid.

A Capitol police officer got testy with immigration reform advocates -- including children -- on Thursday when they were singing outside the office of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to ask him to bring a bill for a ...

Nelson Mandela, a world-wide symbol of resistance to racism and injustice during 27 years in jail -- then without rancor became the iconic pathfinder who led South Africa from apartheid...