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CNN affiliate TV Ashasi shows the devastating beauty of the Sakurajima volcano eruption in Japan.

An al Qaeda linked militant group claims it is holding an Australian doctor and his wife who were abducted last month in Burkina Faso.

Later known for his belief in paranormal activity and aliens

Protesters in Haiti beat a man to death in a clash with former soldiers amid political uncertainty after an election is postponed.

A New Zealand lawmaker received a rude welcome while speaking to the media at a museum opening.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck off the coast of Taiwan has caused a building to collapse in the city of Tainan. CNN's Nina dos Santos has the details.

The "cutting room" is grim, dark and grubby. Fraying gray ropes are set into the rough dirt floor, and a curtain flutters at the open door.

The 6.4-magnitude temblor struck about 4 a.m. local time

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck was transferred to an adult jail on Friday, a week after a judge initially refused to do so. Ethan Couch, 18, w...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says 34 groups from around the world had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group as of mid-December and the number of its "affiliates" will grow in 2016

An underfed but overly cute sea lion cub is getting a lot of TLC after it waddled into an empty upscale California restaurant without a reservation.

The Pentagon has released 198 photos related to prisoner abuse by U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, a decade after the ACLU first sued to make them public. Here, a selection of the sometimes graphic images

Democracies confront their misdeeds, not conceal them

TAINAN, Taiwan

Coast Guard: 3 people believed to be aboard 2 planes that collided over ocean off Los Angeles

The top U.N. human rights official arrived Saturday in Sri Lanka on a four-day visit aimed at reviewing the measures taken by the island-nation to investigate alleged atrocities committed during the long civil war that l...

A judge in Tennessee jailed the boy until he is 19, saying in a judgment published by US media that a child murderer cannot be turned loose 'willy-nilly' An 11-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering an eight-yea...

A number of taxi drivers have reported seeing 'ghost passengers' in Ishinomaki in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, an area that was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan, leveling at least one residential building and killing at least two people.

Forget Bernie's bros -- this is the "sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits"

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Early primaries are often as much about expectations as they are about winning or losing. Just look at Marco Rubio, who has spun a third-place finish in Iowa on Monday into momentum in New Hampshire ...

A suicide bomber is suspected to have set off the explosive that blew a hole in a jetliner, sucked the man out of the plane and forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing on Tuesday in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu,...