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The urge to undress a mummy can be strong. In the 19th century, Egyptologists didn't think twice about tearing off a mummy's wrappings. Even Ramses the Great couldn't avoid the indignity of being stripped bare in front o...

The words and images from the cell phone of a girl who perished on the South Korean ferry convey the rising panic aboard.

The Sony World Photography Awards celebrate the best in international contemporary photography.

Dozens killed as several factions of armed group unite in a failed attempt to reclaim a government-held encampment.

A new law that went into effect in Kenya this week makes it legal for a man to marry as many women as he wants. And a leading women's group is applauding it.

BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has demanded “decisive actions” against terrorism following an attack at a railway station in the far-west minority region of Xinjiang that left three people...

The International Monetary Fund's $17 billion loan to Ukraine, first proposed in March, has been approved, with $3.2 billion is immediately available to the troubled country.

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A pillar of black smoke billowed over downtown Lynchburg, Virginia, after a train carrying crude oil jumped its tracks and caught fire Wednesday afternoon, city officials said.

A massive church was razed to the ground this week in Wenzhou, a coastal Chinese city nicknamed the "Jerusalem of the East" for its large Christian population.

China's Xi demands decisive actions following Xinjiang attack that killed 3, injured 79

Hillel Nahmad, who is known as Helly, pleaded guilty in November to a charge of operating a gambling business.

Toronto's crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford has announced he's taking a leave of absence to seek treatment for alcohol addiction, the latest in a long line of headline-grabbing public statements by Ford. As Ford takes time of...

Max Boot writes today that over the past couple of years, Iraq has spiraled ever downward into outright anarchy and civil war: Contrast that with Afghanistan, which I visited last week. While violence, corruption, drug p...

Ukrainian forces appear to be powerless in eastern Ukraine. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.

A 2012 email from Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, includes goals for Susan E. Rice's appearances on TV talk shows and advice on how to discuss the protests that were raging in Libya.

Private meeting with minority groups preceded lawsuitA longtime ally of House Speaker Michael Madigan is trying to thwart efforts to ask voters whether to impose term limits on lawmakers and curb some of the politics in ...

Millions defied threats from Islamist extremists to vote for a new Parliament, in what was seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

Witnesses say the car bomb that hit the suburb of Nyanya takes several lives as ambulances rush to the scene.

It's not just Issa jumping on the Benghazi bandwagon. Other noted Neocons are shifting their sights from attacking "Obamacare" to the recently-released email, hoping to re-animate the story in time for the mid-term elect...

Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google will tell their users more about government requests for their data, in the wake of a series of leaks exposing the NSA's secret bulk data collection programs.