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The Northern Lights get creepy, President Barack Obama goes to the land Down Under, a turtle photobombs a selfie and more.

With a wife and three young children, including a 5-week-old baby girl, Joel Steinhaus has a mighty long shopping list this holiday season. According to the National Retail Federation, the average US family will spend $8...

It will be a race against the clock for a host of music stars to get the new version of the Band Aid charity single recorded.

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A 7.3-magnitude quake has hit Indonesian waters and the Pacific Tsunami Warnings Center says it has the potential to generate hazardous tsunami waves along nearby coasts. According...

The G-20 meeting isn't exactly the most exciting annual event on your calendar -- if it's on your calendar at all -- but this year it's worth watching. All eyes are on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who stepped off th...

Court papers: Nanny charged with killing 2 kids in bathtub says she's sorry for what she did

David Cameron is expected to confront Vladimir Putin over Moscow's conduct in Ukraine as world leaders meet for the G20 summit.

It took riot police to break up a parliament brawl in Capetown, South Africa. CNN's Diana Magnay reports.

Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr., who is presiding over the trial of Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes, has denied a motion by defense attorneys asking that he be replaced. The defense argued ...

Supreme commander says small submarine entered Swedish territory last month but stops short of blaming any country.

There’s something strange going down in Uranus. For years, experts have thought that the seventh planet from the Sun was one of the calmest gas giants in our Solar System...

Forensic experts in Mexico looking for 43 missing students identify the remains of a missing Ugandan Catholic priest kidnapped in April.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced Friday a series of comprehensive reforms to the United States nuclear force, declaring that the Pentagon will spend billions modernizing the nation's arsenal. The vow comes duri...

Nato's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, has accused Russia of taking ''aggressive actions'' in Ukraine which have violated international law.

Under a hail of gunfire, Serbian special forces are on the move. And watching the ground assault from a safe distance are Russian and Serbian military officials. The unprecedented joint military drill underscores a delic...

U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days, as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group, U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Friday. Seventeen strikes nea...

There's good news and bad news when it comes to college essays

In the US, it’s always seemed like the answer was “extrovert.” Being social is lauded and most people seem skeptical of all that skulking about that introverts do. There’s no doubt research has shown a number of ...

Rick's Cabaret, a club in Midtown, owes more than $10 million in back pay to dancers who performed there without being paid hourly wages, a judge ruled.

Prince William and his wife, Catherine, will cross the pond to New York for the first time next month, paying their respects to victims at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan and catching a B...

The local Ku Klux Klan chapter in Missouri has vowed to use "lethal force" against Ferguson protesters, as the town awaits the grand jury decision on whether local police officer Darren Wilson will be charged in the shoo...

The Islamic State terrorist group, commonly referred to as ISIS, released a graphic new video on Friday. It has all the hallmarks of ISIS' previous propaganda videos: high production values, haunting music and footage of...