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Stifling US embargo still chokeholds the island decades later, but will détente finally halt its devastating effects?

A former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader pleaded guilty Tuesday to raping a 15-year-old boy at a vacation rental home in Delaware last summer.

"We have to pay it back." In the final part of her investigation, CNN's Nima Elbagir uncovers the drug and sex trades children saddled with smugglers' debt turn to.

China's foreign ministry says it will soon complete controversial land reclamation on some islands and reefs in disputed waters in the South China Sea.

While European government struggle to respond to a migrant crisis, one couple is making a difference on their own

He tracked his phone to a car and was shot when he tried to retrieve it

Police forces rely too much on e-learning to train officers and staff to deal with domestic abuse, the police watchdog says.

WASHINGTON -- First Lady Michelle Obama sat down for tea with Prince Harry in Kensington Palace in London Tuesday at the start of a grand European tour that will take...

They are supposed to bring peace, stability and hope.

A prison worker charged with helping two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security facility had discussed with them a murder-for-hire plot involving her husband, a district attorney confirmed Wednesday.

As many as 600 million Samsung Galaxy smartphones may have a software flaw allowing hackers to eavesdrop on phone calls and voice mail, read texts and view photos.

An Irish university expresses its sorrow and sympathy at the deaths of six young people - five of them Irish students - who died after a balcony collapsed in the US.

Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal raised their children with strong evangelical Christian values, believing in Young Earth Creationism, which holds the Bible as literal truth. But after Dan Dolezal, Larry's brother, announced h...

The war of words between America and Russia is escalating. So, too, is the movement of implements of war -- from U.S. fighter jets to Russian nuclear weapons.

Colonel Ali El-Mahdi tells Sky's Alex Crawford he is confident of clearing Islamic State militants from Benghazi in eight weeks.

Despite the fact that the search for Richard Matt and David Sweat, the convicted murderers who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6, has expanded in recent days, state police say there is "no hard evi...

(Reuters) - A San Francisco-based driver for smartphone-based ride-hailing service Uber is an employee, not a contractor, according to a ruling by the California Labor Commission.

The arrest of a NYC student is just the start, officials said.

During concert at Tasmania's Dark Mofo festival, singer issues call for action on Aboriginal rights, saying Australia's Indigenous people are a 'precious resource' Antony Hegarty has condemned the "genocide" of indigenou...

Global airline association scraps recommendation for smaller carry-on luggage

Country expected to face famine if unusually dry weather continues as 30 percent of its rice paddies dry up.

UN: Spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea outbreak isn't global emergency