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Unusual medical conditions captured in images.

Table etiquette remains a vexing and important issue at nude resorts. Really.

Although marijuana remains illegal in the Netherlands, in 1976 the Dutch government began tolerating retail sales of small amounts by so-called coffee shops. Thirty-eight years later, the International Narcotics Control ...

Prime minister says Kremlin should withdraw troops and stop supporting 'separatists and terrorists' before talks start.

Last year it was one of the worst emerging markets around. This year, India is on a tear.

The U.S. Department of Defense released an in-depth report on North Korea's military, breaking down a lot of previously unknown information about the combat capabilities of the pariah nation.

Ukraine decides against boycott and will compete in Winter Paralympics in Sochi

PARIS (AP) -- Michael Schumacher's spokeswoman says he is "still in the wake-up phase" and that his medical situation is unchanged.     

Conviction of Germain Katanga is only second in International Criminal Court's 11-year history.

2 passers-by shot and wounded near anti-government protest site in Thai capital

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine -- The volatile confrontation over the future of Ukraine took another tense turn Thursday as Russian allies here in Crimea sought annexation by Moscow and the United States imposed its first sanctions...

LOS LUNAS, N.M. (AP) -- A 15-year-old New Mexico teen accused of killing his 12-year-old playmate was indicted Thursday on a murder charge.     

BANGKOK (AP) -- A leading international rights group is calling on Thailand to investigate its navy's alleged role in trafficking of desperate migrants from Myanmar instead of charging journalists for reporting on the su...

Taking the war out of global warming

Scientists say restoring peat bogs could help reduce flooding, as the government looks at ways of tackling poor land management.

A verdict is due at the International Criminal Court trial of DR Congo militia leader Germain Katanga, accused of being behind a village massacre.

Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin came out swinging after Thursday's Security Council meeting, criticizing the mainstream media for ignoring a Voice of Russia report on a leaked private phone call between EU Repres...

U.S. authorities have learned more about two Los Angeles-area men claiming in a video to be gang members fighting in Syria: It turns out they are Syrian nationals of Armenian descent who were deported back to that countr...

Sam Kellner was indicted three years ago on charges that he bribed a young man to falsely testify that he had been abused by Baruch Lebovits, a prominent Hasidic cantor in Brooklyn.     

China's debt has mounted, with a lot of money owed to unregulated "shadow banks.''

The Duke freshman who ratted out a classmate as a porn star is himself a prolific porn purveyor, a top skin flick distributor claims. Big-mouthed frat boy Thomas Bagley shells...

Ukrainian security officials are complaining that unknown attackers are interfering with the mobile phone services of members of Ukraine's parliament, making difficult political decisions about what to do about Russia's ...