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Porn darling Rola Misaki, also known as Takizawa Rola, agreed to a 15-year, $8 million contract with a Chinese businessman who likes to wear masks and is a major player in the entertainment industry.

s://twitter.com/XHNews/status/599168081378709504 BEIJING -- A bus fell from a cliff in north-central China on Friday, killing 30 people on board, authorities said. Twenty-five people died at the scene in Shaanxi province...

A Georgia educator who was caught on camera calling out "all the black people" for leaving a graduation ceremony during the valedictorian's speech has been fired.

Emily Yoffe of Slate's Dear Prudence column doesn't typically call back her letter writers to give them advice. But on the April 24 episode of The Gist, she did. The following is a transcript of the conversation. Listen ...

A Florida mother who had been in hiding for nearly three months to avoid a court-mandated circumcision of her son was arrested this week, the latest development in an ongoing and bitter legal battle about the procedure. ...

Eight people died when Amtrak train No. 188 derailed in north Philadelphia on Tuesday, en route to New York City from Washington, D.C. We now know that the train was going too fast around a curve, and the names of the ei...

Iraqi security forces are claiming a coalition airstrike took out ISIS's No. 2 leader, Abu Alaa al-Afri. CNN's Jim Sciutto reports.

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Instead of taking the United Kingdom to the International Court of Justice for the return of the Elgin Marbles, Greece's Culture Minister Nikos Xydakis said his country will go through "diplomatic and political" channels...

Florida woman who fled to avoid son's circumcision is arrested; had been found in contempt

TIME contract photographer James Nachtwey reports from the quake-devastated country

The American nuns' journey from pariah status to a papal welcome and photo opportunity lasted three years and was conducted behind closed doors.

The Amtrak engineer at the controls of the deadly Philadelphia derailment -- who inexplicably sped up to a 106 mph going into a sharp curve -- had been ranting online...

The government's decision to end the long-running program, a tool in the war on drugs, was made because of a concern that the spray causes cancer.

"There was no criminality in the act, therefore no criminal charges"

Fifteen gold miners feared dead in Riosucio after water poured into the underground shafts where they were digging.

He will not face charges and the baby was found safe

Jeb Bush offered a definitive answer to the question of whether he would have authorized the invasion of Iraq in 2003 had he known about the intelligence failures at the time. "I would have not engaged," he said.

A zoo in France is appealing to the public for help to find 17 rare and endangered monkeys that were stolen over the weekend.

Bilal Abood, 37, a naturalized American citizen, was charged with lying to an F.B.I. agent after he denied that he had pledged loyalty to the head of the Islamic State.

ISIS released an online audio statement Thursday in which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the militant Islamist organization, calls for recruits from around the world to "fight in his land or wherever that may be."