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Nianthony Martinez, who spent his days immersed in fantasy games, shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend and the woman he blamed for the breakup.

Reddit mascots are displayed at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California April 15, 2014. Reuters/Robert Galbraith

The Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram gained worldwide notoriety this week after they admitted to brutally kidnapping 300 high school girls last month and threatening to sell them into marriages. But the group has long...

More than 270 girls remain captive after being kidnapped on April 15.

Coca-Cola said on Monday that it will stop using brominated vegetable oil (BVO) in all of its drinks, giving in to the request of a Change.org petition started by a teenager. 

The Islamist terror group Boko Haram said in a video released Monday that it would sell a group of more than 250 young girls abducted from a school in northeast Nigeria three weeks ago as bride slaves. Many fear that som...

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Can you imagine legally growing marijuana in your backyard? How about walking down to the corner pharmacy to buy a gram or two of ready-to-smoke pot?

Wu Yuanhong, a man suffering from schizophrenia in China's southeastern Jiangxi Province, was forced by his mother to live in a small metal cage for 11 years after he beat a young boy to death.

Ellen DeGeneres and Stephen Fry are among celebrities boycotting hotels owned by Brunei's sultan over harsh sharia punishments.

Venezuelan security forces are accused of using excessive force, and even torture, against opposition protesters, in a report by Human Rights Watch.

Four Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and an army helicopter shot down by pro-Russian militants near the eastern city of Sloviansk, Kiev says.

CNN's Barbara Starr talks about the possibility that North Korea might be planning another underground nuclear test.

President pays tribute to "our shared history, our shared future" with Mexico.

One in 10 questioned expect to see RoboCop-style police in 10 years' time, with 17% willing to 'have sex with an android' More than one in three Britons fear the rise of the machines will threaten the human race, a surve...

Last year, the Chinese e-commerce business that is part-owned by Yahoo handled $248 billion in transactions, more than Amazon and eBay combined. The company's IPO could be the largest in tech history

Planning a '24' marathon? That will take 6 days and 2 hours, according to this Nielsen infographic

Newly released documents reveal that Ariel Castro told police after his arrest that he was "glad it was over".

A woman has survived at least five days trapped in her wrecked car without food or water at the top of a mountain pass.

Firefighters are tackling a severe blaze at a house on the Banffshire coast.

While the average number of channels has ballooned in recent years, viewership has remained flat

Christie's joins several other art-world institutions in agreeing to return to Cambodia statues that were looted from a Khmer temple.