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PYONGYANG, North Korea -- North Korea said Friday that it had executed Kim Jong Un's uncle as a traitor for trying to seize supreme power, a stunning end for the leader's former mentor, long considered the country's numb...

Mission Control has launched several "Tiger Teams" to work around the clock troubleshooting the cooling failure on the International Space Station, NASA officials said today.     

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minnesota National Guardsman and Iraq War veteran charged with fraud for allegedly stealing personal information of roughly 400 members of his former Army unit had worked in intelligence, where he l...

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New report confirms findings

Radical design is a hit among the country's young generation.

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office warns that ransom payments for Western hostages is making kidnappers rich and directly fuelling terrorism.

The retired FBI agent who seemed to vanish in Iran seven years ago was on a strange unauthorized mission for the CIA that was organized by intelligence agents who did not have the authority to do so, a shocking new repor...

Majority Of Travelers Opposed To Allowing Cell Phone Conversations On Planes     

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., threatened to hold the Senate in session through the night to deal with 11 nominations, most of them non-controversial. 

Admiral's statement follows President Obama's public call to shutter the military detention centre in Cuba.

European leaders should be ashamed by the paltry numbers of refugees from Syria they are prepared to resettle, human rights group Amnesty says.

Vivian Mayo, 57, of Cantwell, was found at about 1 a.m. Wednesday, taking shelter under the burned-out hulk of her snowmobile and sharing body heat with Elvis, a small, brown dog of unknown breed. 

How the Internet Reacted to Beyoncé's Album Drop

A former Flintshire pharmaceuticals firm is fined £120,000 after workers are exposed to toxic chemicals, with some suffering life-changing injuries.

Michael Niccole calls his 25-year-old daughters 'good ambassadors' for his business.

The Hubble telescope detected plumes of water spurting above Europa's surface, bringing us one step closer in the search for life

All sense of proportion was lost by the media in the coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela, said a former UK defence secretary.

In the Tsukiji market in Tokyo, cooking instructor Reiko Yashikawa shows CNN what traditional Japanese cuisine is about

A U.S. drone mistakenly targeted a wedding convoy in Yemen's al-Baitha province after intelligence reports identified the vehicles as carrying al Qaeda militants, two national security officials told CNN on Thursday.

The United Nations has finally issued its report on whether or not chemical weapons were used in Syria. The verdict: they were -- at least five times -- but we still don't know which side used them.     

Why you're probably pronouncing Nelson Mandela's name wrong