Ruling party faces split over impeachment

South Korea's ruling party on Wednesday faced an imminent split over the impeachment of scandal-hit President Park Geun-hye, a development that would seriously undermine its presidential election chances.

Fireworks market blasts kill at least 31

A series of massive explosions destroyed a fireworks market outside the Mexican capital on Tuesday, killing at least 31 people, injuring dozens and leaving the market a charred wasteland.

Russia, Iran, Turkey cast as dealmakers

Russia, Turkey and Iran cast themselves as the essential dealmakers in Syria on Tuesday, saying at a meeting in Moscow that their cooperation could pave the way for a future settlement in Syria.

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Skid Row runners making strides in pursuit of new life

Dawn is breaking over downtown Los Angeles as a small group of men and women set off on a 10-kilometer run from Skid Row, the epicenter of the city's homelessness crisis.

Man gets go ahead to wear horns in license photograph

An ordained Pagan priest finally has gotten the OK to sport goat horns in his Maine driver's license photo.

The fight to save Earth's smallest rhino in the jungles of Sumatra

Deep from within the Indonesian jungle a solitary, seldom seen forest giant emerges from the undergrowth.

Social media star, 7, among evacuees from eastern Aleppo

A Syrian girl from eastern Aleppo whose tweets from the war zone captivated world attention was evacuated to safety on Monday, part of an evacuation deal that saw the remaining residents of the former rebel enclave head to other parts of the country.

Prosecutors say artist's 'fake' work is genuine

A painting attributed to one of South Korea's most renowned artists has been declared genuine by state prosecutors, despite the insistence of the late artist herself that it was a fake.

Road tunnel under the Bosporus

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to open the first road tunnel underneath the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul on Tuesday, the latest project completed in his plan of transforming the country's infrastructure.

Lagarde keeps job, escapes penalty after conviction

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde escaped punishment and kept her job on Monday despite a conviction on negligence charges over a state payout made while she served as France's finance minister in 2008.

Experts: Crash site could be north of current search area

Investigators searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have recommended extending the search by 25,000 square kilometers, to an area further north in the Indian Ocean, after conceding for the first time they were probably looking in the wrong place.