China appears to be tightening restrictions on international media again, barring foreign journalists from working near a popular Shanghai park and along a major Beijing shopping street after calls for protests in those spots appeared online.
The new restrictions put the popular leisure spots...
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BAGHDAD – A government official in western Iraq says a suicide bomber trying to assassinate the deputy head of the provincial council in Anbar province has killed eight people.
The Chairman of the Anbar Provincial Council, Jasim al-Halbusi, said a man wearing an explosives vest...
PARIS – Paris is formalizing its fascination with "Mad Men" by giving a medal to the hit series' creator and executive producer, Matthew Weiner.
Two of the series' stars, Christina Hendricks, who plays office manager Joan Harris, and John Slattery, who plays ad agency partner Roger Sterling...
Things Not To Say During Childbirth....
-- Gosh, you're lucky. I sure wish men could experience the miracle of childbirth.
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-- If you...
SEOUL, South Korea – Military officers from North and South Korea held talks inside the heavily guarded Demilitarized Zone on Tuesday in the rivals' first official dialogue since the North's deadly artillery barrage of a South Korean island in November.
Tensions on the divided peninsula rose...
-- Opposition activists formed a human chain outside one of the entrances to Tahrir Square on Saturday afternoon to prevent two Egyptian military tanks from crossing through barricades into what has effectively become an anti-Mubarak enclave in the heart of the Egyptian capital.
An eyewitness...
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-- Groups of U.S. tourists were stuck Saturday trying to find their way out of Egypt amid the chaos and violent protests that have seized the country.
American traveler Diane Kelley of Chicago described being "stranded" near...
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-- Groups of U.S. tourists were stuck Saturday trying to find their way out of Egypt amid the chaos and violent protests that have seized the country.
American traveler Diane Kelley of Chicago described being "stranded" near...
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-- Hours ahead of what are expected to be massive displays of anti-government ferment across the world's most populous Arab nation, the internet went dark in parts of Egypt early Friday, and text messaging appeared to be...
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-- Protesters taking to the streets in Egypt on Wednesday felt the wrath of security forces, a day after an unparalleled display of public rage at...
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-- Thousands of photos taken during John F. Kennedy's 1,036 days as president remain unseen since White House photographer Cecil Stoughton printed and logged them in his darkroom five decades ago.
When Stoughton's family auctioned...
-- Actor Michael Douglas says he has beaten throat cancer.
"I think the odds are with the tumor gone and what I know about this particular type of cancer that I've got it beat," he told host Matt Lauer of "Today" in an interview to air on NBC Tuesday.
"I have to check out on a monthly basis...
Blitzer in North Korea: Life in a tinderbox - CNN.com
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Pyongyang, North Korea -- The Korean Peninsula is a tinderbox. One miscalculation can quickly lead to all-out war and hundreds of thousands of military and...
Photographer George Pickow dies in N.Y.
NEW YORK, -- Photographer George Pickow, known for his album cover photographs of musicians such as Lena Horne and Louis Armstrong, has died in New York, his son said.
Pickow died of respiratory failure, his son Jon said in a New York Times report. Pickow...
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Mexico City -- A 14-year-old accused of ruthless killings on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel boss is a U.S. citizen, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said Monday.
Gini Staub would not provide any further...
LONDON - First came the royal engagement. Now — 10 days later — the first book.
"William and Kate: A Royal Love Story," by the Sun newspaper's royal reporter James Clench was published Friday in Britain, the first in a slew of new titles about the relationship between Prince William and fiancee...
Beijing, China -- Mourners lined up Sunday to lay flowers in front of a charred 28-story high-rise in Shanghai, China, where a fire killed at least 58 people last week, witnesses told CNN.
Amid tight security, thousands gathered at the site Sunday morning.
"There are tons of people here,"...
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London, England -- British royal weddings and the engagements that precede them have traditionally been occasions characterized by state-managed pageantry, popular euphoria and celebratory media coverage.
At first...
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Beijing, China -- Four suspects have been detained in a China high-rise fire that killed 53 people, state media said Tuesday.
Monday's fire has hospitalized at least 70 other people, including 17 who were seriously injured...