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Women earned the right to vote and run in municipal elections in 2011

With a mission to kill 333 minke whales, Japan has sent its first whaling ship to the Antarctic Ocean in more than one year.

The blockade has led to severe shortages of fuel, medicine and essential goods

So-called white student unions are springing up at universities across Australia, charged with supporting and defending the interests of white students who they say are becoming marginalized from on-campus life and polit...

Police arrested a man after he stole a truck– so he could pick up his girlfriend from jail, incredulous Arizona cops said. Miguel Redshirt drove the truck into the parking lot of the Tempe Police Department and was qui...

Catholic, Prortestant clergy back demands for inquiry into vote Coalition of eight candidates question Oct. 25 results Protests continue over disputed election …

Former PM is second civilian to become president of West African nation after almost three decades of one-man rule.

Luis Diaz was assassinated at a public meeting last Wednesday

A year after his 700-page opus "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" stormed to the top of America's best-seller lists, Thomas Piketty is out with a new argument about income inequality. It may prove more controversial t...

COMPTON, Calif. -- A Southern California woman who slit the throats of her three children and left their bodies on her bed was convicted Monday of first-degree murder. Carol Ann Coronado, 32, is facing a potential life s...

A mother pleaded guilty in a South African court on Monday to having tried to sell her baby on the Internet for 5,000 rand ($346), the online news service News24 said. “I admit that my actions were wrongful, unlawful a...

President Obama conducts news conference to wrap Paris climate conference.

Residents of Luxor march in solidarity with the family of Talaat Shabib al-Rashidi who died shortly after arrest.

For the last week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been under fire from protesters and fellow elected officials in Chicago -- and from activists and pundits across the country -- to clean up his police department and fire his top...

A hacker who gained access to the servers of Hong Kong electronic toymaker VTech obtained more than just the email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of nearly 5 million adults -- he or she also found tens of thous...

The newly-elected mayor of Alaska's capital city has been found dead.

It is well known that coal is the world's dirtiest fuel. Yet, it powers most of India's energy needs. CNN's Mallika Kapur gets access deep inside a coal mine in Eastern India and examines what it does to India's bottom l...

Virgin America said it was apologizing to the lawyer, Robert B. Abhtahi, after crew members said they didn't feel comfortable letting him on a flight to Dallas.

After Sheldon Silver was found guilty on Monday, several jurors in the corruption case discussed how they reached their verdict.

JFK conspiracy theorists showed "serious interest" in the Garrison Files offered to the public at the New York Art, Antique and Jewelry Show -- but not enough to buy the $168,500 collection. The Garrison Files, which inc...

Military strongmen hint that bilateral ties could be affected

Republicans and Democrats are on a collision course over dozens of policy amendments to a $1.1 trillion spending plan that must pass by Dec. 11.