Hundreds of Tanzanian schoolgirls returned home on Monday after spending three months hiding in safe houses to escape genital mutilation, state television said. Female genital mutilation can range from hacking off the clitoris to the removal of the entire female genitalia.
What started out as a simple Facebook request for photos of dogs for a 16-year-old leukemia patient has since turned the pet-loving boy into an Internet celebrity.
An Indiana couple faces charges after investigators say they found cellphone videos showing the woman's 12-month-old daughter putting a handgun in her mouth.
At least 59 people were killed when their bus crashed into an oil tanker, igniting a fierce blaze in southern Pakistan early on Sunday, local officials said.
US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki criticized on Saturday an offer by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to suspend future nuclear tests temporarily if Washington agreed to temporarily halt military exercises with the Republic of Korea this year.
Sri Lanka's new government will investigate an attempt by Mahinda Rajapaksa to stage a "coup" to stay in power after it became clear he had lost last week's presidential election, a spokesman said on Sunday.
Indonesian divers on Sunday believed they found the black box of the AirAsia plane which crashed in the Java Sea a fortnight ago with 162 people aboard, the transport ministry said.
Philippine seismologists say a magnitude-6.0 earthquake has jolted the capital, Manila, rousing people from their sleep.
A crossbow in her hands and covered head-to-toe in a black Islamic headwear and robe that leaves only her eyes visible-that is the image now circulating of France's most-wanted woman: Hayat Boumeddiene.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jews on Saturday in France, after 17 people were killed there in Islamist attacks, that Israel is their home and his government wants them to immigrate.
A German newspaper in the northern port city of Hamburg that reprinted Muhammad cartoons from the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo was the target of an arson attack early on Sunday, police said.
The Patriots hold no fear for the Baltimore Ravens, not in the NFL playoffs - and definitely not in New England.
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