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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.

An enormous sinkhole has opened up in a residential neighbourhood of northeast Baltimore in the US.

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...

Unesco threatens to list the Great Barrier Reef as an endangered heritage site, amid controversy over a plan to dump dredged sediment.

One woman has been killed and nine others injured in a bomb attack aboard a train at a station in the Indian city of Chennai, officials say.

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.

A 15-year-old boy will appear in court later charged with the murder of teacher Anne Maguire, who died at a school in Leeds.

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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

Author Martin Amis tells BBC Newsnight the reaction to the publication of The Satanic Verses was "a nightmare" for Salman Rushdie.

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

Jeremy Ben-Ami says histrionics greeted Secretary John Kerry's use of the word "apartheid" -- even though Israeli politicians have used it before. Channel that energy into finding peace instead.

Witnesses say the ground shook as a large crater opened up in a Baltimore street, swallowing a rail line and parked cars.

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...