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The North Korean ambassador to the U.N. has filed a request for the body's Security Council to meet over the ongoing U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises.

The deadly two-year epidemic had been declared over in West Africa this year

Doctors are determining the next steps in former Toronto May Rob Ford's cancer treatments as he continues to work on rebuilding his strength to resume chemotherapy treatments, his chief of staff Dan Jacobs said Thursday....

The World Health Organization deployed specialists to southeast Guinea on Friday after two new Ebola cases were confirmed. …

Some engineers have threatened to quit their jobs

A judge's injunction barring former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from becoming chief of staff to the South American nation's current leader has been overturned -- the latest, but hardly last twist in Brazil's spir...

On the fifth floor of the National Library of South Korea, there is a room full of books and magazines that are mostly banned in this country.

Five flamingos and a pelican are found dead after a violent hailstorm rips through the Fort Worth Zoo.

Factions backing president and her predecessor to put on show of strength in face of mass protests and moves towards impeachment Brazil protests: share your photos, videos and experiences At the end of a week of extraord...

A 5-year-old girl is paralyzed after doing a backbend, which caused damage to her entire spine. CNN affiliate KTLA reports.

He stabbed four people at his school in November before being killed by police

Days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered tests of a nuclear warhead

A performer accidentally caught on fire Thursday during a pep rally at a Florida high school.

Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled to Crimea on Friday to mark the second anniversary of the peninsula's annexation and inspect construction of a bridge meant to link it to mainland Russia. …

They can already get their baguettes from machines

System only awards financial aid if claimant has lost '40% of a bodily function', meaning thousands no longer qualify. RFE/RL reports Daniil is five years old but he's spent more time in a hospital than most adults. Last...

Loyalty may be tested

"For the past 10 years, bread has been under attack."

Former CIA Director David Petraeus will make a second appearance before House Select Committee on Benghazi, according to a source familiar with the committee's deliberations.

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The tune is familiar — it’s “O, Tannenbaum”/”O, Christmas Tree.” But the words to Maryland’s state song are anachronistically odd: The despot’s heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple d...

They will propose the plan to Turkey's Prime Minister on Friday