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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.

Do you think they can buff it out?

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Gaaaah: Millions of baby spiders appeared to be raining from the sky in the Southern Tablelands earlier this month, with one astonished local fearing the region had been "invaded by spiders" and another reporting his hom...

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...

Bono and The Edge talk to Sky News as they begin their 70-date Innocence and Experience tour with a gig in Vancouver.

The US and Cuban governments are to hold talks next week to discuss practical measures to re-establish diplomatic relations.

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.

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International observers declare ballot free and fair after ruling Progressive People's party is unseated by multiracial coalition Guyana's multiracial opposition coalition has won a national election, breaking the ruling...

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...

New Zealand is appealing to the public to design and vote on a new flag, and the results are as weird and wonderful as you'd expect There's an internet joke, perpetuated by BuzzFeed, that New Zealand doesn't exist, riffi...

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"

President Barack Obama says the US must invest more in its infrastructure, in the wake of a train derailment in Philadelphia that claimed eight lives.