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Cuba is going to bat for North Korea in the United Nations, attempting to water down a draft resolution that calls for the hermit kingdom to be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on human rights charges.

Region bracing for potential unrest if officer Darren Wilson is not indicted by a grand jury looking into the 9 August fatal shooting of Michael Brown St Louis rapper turned activist Tef Poe releases shooting protest son...

WHO says more than 5,000 people have now died in the outbreak that has also sickened 14,000 people.

(Reuters) - Despite nearly a year of negotiations, Iran and six major powers are unlikely to meet a Nov. 24 deadline to reach a final deal to lift international sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear pr...

The so-called "White Widow," a British-born Muslim accused of terrorism, was reportedly killed by a Russian sniper in eastern Ukraine, a Russian news agency reported Wednesday. Samantha Lewthwaite is known as the "White ...

Touchdown for Rosetta's Philae Lander. Frederick Pleitgen reports it's the first ever soft landing on a speeding comet.

President Obama has asked his national security team for another review of the U.S. policy toward Syria after realizing that ISIS may not be defeated without a political transition in Syria and the removal of President B...

In a televised press conference on Friday, Mexico's Attorney General, Jesús Murillo Karam, announced that the forty-three missing students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School had been executed and incinerated in the munic...

The home of the Corleone clan in the 1972 classic film demands respect, with five bedrooms and a kitchen to die for Looking for a move to a home which demands as its most famous (albeit fictional) owner might have mumble...

Throughout history, disease has been considered an unwanted import

Man indicted in woman's abduction caught on video; faces life sentence if convicted

After Wednesday's dramatic landing, the Rosetta mission's small robotic lander Philae has started to explore its surroundings -- but there's a problem looming for the plucky little robot.

A new display called GhostDash allows racing buffs to compete against themselves.

New York City police say "Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro has been arrested on a drunken-driving charge.

Catnip for feline fans: New Northern California cafe offers coffee, cookies and cat cuddling

Thursday: plunging temperatures and snowflakes, mayoral tardiness, and an $82 million Warhol.

Rusty Croft takes sand castles very seriously. The American artist designed this 39' 4" sand castle in Niteroi, outside Rio de Janeiro; a team of 15 people worked for a week to build it. Croft and his team are being spon...

Immigration, Landrieu gambit on Keystone pipeline top first day of Congress' lame duck session

The United Nations Security Council Wednesday urged Lebanon to pick a president to take office after more than a 5-month delay. The Lebanese parliament has failed 16 times to replace Michael Suleiman, whose term ended Ma...

The Israeli government said Wednesday it will not cooperate with the United Nations Human Rights Council investigation into the most recent war in Gaza, calling it a "kangaroo court" because the chairman, Canadian Willia...

Two years ago, President Barack Obama made history as the first sitting American president to visit Myanmar -- an outreach to the Southeast Asian country that the Obama administration touted as a foreign-policy success. ...

A Texas judge has approved the terms of a settlement agreement between relatives of the only person to die in the U.S. from Ebola and the hospital where he died. The monetary details of the deal remain confidential, but ...