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Tokyo offers $20bn in aid and loans for ASEAN members in charm offensive to woo global public opinion on China dispute.

DAKAR, Senegal -- (AP) -- A bomb explosion killed several members of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali in the troubled northern city of Kidal, a spokesman for the mission said Saturday.     

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A spokesman for retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu says the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, longtime friend of Nelson Mandela and occasional critic of the current government won't be attending Mandela's fun...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he hopes the United States will reconsider its stand on a security agreement it wants him to sign in the interests of bringing a lasting peace to his war-torn country....

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- The party of jailed Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire says it will continue fighting for the "total liberation" of Rwanda after the country's highest court on Friday upheld her conviction...

BEIJING (AP) -- A gas explosion at a coal mine in western China has killed 21 workers, an official said Saturday.     

A student identified as 18-year-old Karl Halverson Pierson walked into a Colorado high school with a shotgun Friday, possibly seeking revenge against a teacher, and critically wounded another student before apparently ki...

The mission aims to make China the third country to carry out a rover mission after the US and former Soviet Union.

On Saturday, the people of Newtown, Connecticut, will remember a tragedy that convulsed the nation one year ago.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Several boulders as large as a delivery van fell hundreds of feet, destroying a chalet-style house and killing a middle-aged couple in a small Utah town outside Zion National Park, the mayor said. ...

BAGHDAD -- Twenty-five suspects held on terrorism charges, some facing the death penalty, escaped early Friday from a prison north of Baghdad where Saddam Hussein had been hanged, killing two guards and raising the quest...

White House press corps is furious with Jay Carney

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Judge rules that key parts of Utah's polygamy laws are unconstitutional.

Teenager sings EXACTLY like Elvis. Can you tell them apart? CNN's Jeanne Moos reports Elvis IS in the building.

A decision by the Indian Supreme Court to reinstate a ban on gay sex is criticized. CNN's Sumnima Udas reports.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Attacks on polio teams in northwest Pakistan on Friday killed a polio worker and two policemen assigned to protect one of the teams, police and a government official said.     

AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio man convicted of fatally shooting his ailing wife in her hospital bed was sentenced Friday to six years in prison and plans to seek clemency from the governor.     

NEW YORK (AP) -- Boston Bruins forward Shawn Thornton was suspended for 15 games without pay the NHL on Saturday for punching and injuring unsuspecting Pittsburgh defenseman Brooks Orpik.     

Ruling Ennahdha party and opposition say Industry Minister Mehdi Jomaa will lead a caretaker cabinet into 2014 election.

For a show about the CIA, important episodes of Showtime's Homeland leak with an alarming regularity. This season the premiere and the finale both made their way online earlier than intended.      

Students, teacher: Colorado student gunman recently kicked off speech team but was no loner