A sandstorm, first of its kind this spring, began shrouding many parts of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Tuesday afternoon due to a cold wave.

Diplomats say Iran has tripled installations of high-tech machines at its main enrichment facility to more than 600 in three months -- machines that could be used in a nuclear weapons program.

Iranian state television said on Tuesday (April 16) at least 40 people were killed when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Islamic state near the border with Pakistan on Tuesday.

A study conducted in Mexico suggests that local birds living in urban areas may be using discarded cigarette butts to protect their nests from parasites.

The head of an extremist Jordanian Muslim Salafi group says he's "happy to see the horror in America" after the explosions in Boston.

Rivers in ten Polish provinces are on a state of alert, this following heavy rains and flooding.

A notorious career criminal has made a spectacular escape from a French prison by blasting his way out with explosives.

This hotel definitely offers a room with a view. Until recently the old communist TV tower in Prague was just known as the ugliest building of the Czech capital, but now it has a new attraction on offer - a luxurious one-room hotel looking out on the city.

Newcastle United fans clashed with police after their team was beaten 3-0 at home by Sunderland in a one-sided Premier League derby at St James' Park on Sunday (April 14).

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A total of 52 vehicles became stranded on the provincial highway 224 in Chengde of north china's Hebei province on Sunday after the road surface was covered with ice and snow.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said North Korea has been skating close to a "dangerous line" with its recent threats to the United States and South Korea.

Curious tourists at the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) look over at the North Korean side with curiosity, South Korean Foreign Minister Pyongyang is prepared to fire mid-range missiles.

On April 9 2003, a giant statue of Iraq's former President Saddam Hussein was pulled down, symbolizing an end to the dictator's rule.

Wearing a mask around its eyes, it walked a tightrope. No, not some costumed performer: a raccoon.

The Nikkei share average climbed as much as 3.1 percent to hover near a 5-year high on Monday (April 8), and bond prices inched up as investors responded positively to the Bank of Japan's move to begin buying longer-dated bonds immediately to combat deflation.

A new anti-pornography law is up for debate in Uganda. It would impose bans on what can be shown on TV and in the movies in the African nation.

A spell of snow swept across some parts of central and southwest China during the QingMing Festival which began Thursday.

India successfully tests its nuclear-capable Agni II missile for the second time on Sunday (April 07), from eastern Odisha state, after testing it for the first time in 2010.

China can control the outbreak of an avian flu strain newly contracted by humans, a senior Chinese health official said on Sunday (April 7), a day after China reported its eighteenth case of the H7N9 virus that has so far killed six people.

Secretary of State John Kerry is mourning the first death of an American diplomat on the job since last year's Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi, Libya.

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Matisse in Norwegian museum was once Nazi loot...