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Victories in the struggle for control of Ukraine are often very short lived. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.

Remember A-T and G-C? Now scientists have created X-Y, a new DNA base pair that could spur medical innovation. 

The terror trial of Abu Hamza has been told that the radical Muslim cleric secretly worked for MI5 to "keep the streets of London safe".

Prominent journalist Gao Yu is detained over a leaked document, China says, as several critics are rounded up ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary.

Prominent Saudi activist Raif Badawi on Wednesday was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes by a Saudi court for insulting Islam, his wife and a source who followed the case closely told CNN.

Officers will patrol with French counterparts to prevent fellow citizens being targeted by pickpockets and muggers Paris police are to draft in reinforcements from China to help patrol the French capital during the summe...

Officials at the Kunstmuseum in Bern described the gift as both a "delight" and a "burden," due to its abundance of masterpieces and murky provenance

South Korean prosecutors on Thursday detained the head of the company that owns the ferry that sank last month over an allegation of cargo overloading.

Five outraged House Democrats emerged from a meeting at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday with tough words for the leader of the terrorist group Boko Haram. "There is a special place in hell for some...

When Vietnam accused a Chinese ship Wednesday of intentionally ramming two of its vessels near a Chinese oil rig in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, it was only the latest incident in which China has provoked ...

Youth club which had been facing closure could now get huge windfall thanks to a painting by mysterious street artist A youth club that was facing closure is now celebrating a potential multimillion-pound windfall thanks...

Vladimir Putin claimed Russia has withdrawn its troops from the Ukrainian border. CNN's Jim Sciutto reports.

Nick Clegg has criticised a Conservative plan to jail an offender convicted twice for possessing a knife, saying it would be a "step backwards".

The Boko Haram militant group descended on the town of Gamboru Ngala this week, firing indiscriminately, torching houses and killing at least 336 people.

Monica Lewinsky - the one-time White House intern - has broken her 10-year media silence about her affair with the former US President Bill Clinton.

Claims that Facebook and Zynga violated federal wiretap laws were dismissed by a U.S. appeals court today. 

Pro-Russian activists in eastern Ukraine have decided to go ahead with an independence referendum on Sunday, despite a call from Russian President Vladimir Putin to postpone it.

It's a 21st-century version of the famous "Earthrise" photo taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders in 1968: our brilliant blue world rising above the craters of the moon captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter o...

Most people who walk into the same store on the same day, expect to pay the same price if they pick out the same item. But it's a whole different story for online shoppers. Many online marketers are changing the price in...

Senior Andrew Muennink could be the hero of his high school art class if he manages to get his teacher to throw out the final exam.

This weekend Zac Efron goes head-to-head with Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as the beefcake leader of a fraternity in the comedy Neighbors. But his post-High School Musical career really began with Richard Linklater's Me ...

Turkey was home to less than 200,000 Syrian refugees at the start of 2013. Now up to 700,000, the patience of many Turkish citizens is running thin. With no sign of the conflict in Syria abating, that number is expected ...