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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.

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...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand doctors said Friday that a 7-year-old Japanese girl was bitten about 100 times during a dog mauling that has horrified many in the South Pacific nation.     

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.     

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 ...

New York's largest art fair, The Armory Show, features modern and contemporary art from 205 galleries representing 26 different countries. Thousands throng to Pier 92 to browse, buy -- and be seen. Here's how to survive ...

A Chicago woman working in a local thrift store was killed after she was accidentally shot in the chest by a gun concealed in some dropped-off clothing.  

NASA announced today that its Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) was unable to find "Planet X," a hypothetical, large celestial body that some scientists theorize might exist somewhere beyond Pluto.      

Economic and cyber-war are more likely in current Crimean crisis than guns and tanks, experts say.

SAFED, Israel -- A gleaming external fixator -- a medical stabilizing device -- screwed into his broken leg, Kareem (as he asked to be identified) is recuperating in the orthopedic ward at Ziv Medical Center in this nort...