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The city that never sleeps is upping efforts to reach those without beds to call their own. New York City, currently experiencing record-high rates of homelessness, has increased funds aimed…
PARIS — France’s Socialist government survived a confidence vote in the National Assembly on Thursday, two days after it forced through a contentious package of economic measures without a ballot….
Several times in recent months, America has been treated to a spectacle that New Yorkers grew accustomed toand sick ofa long time ago: an outburst from ex-mayor Rudy Giuliani that…
Tropical Cyclone Marcia packed powerful winds as it slammed into Australia’s eastern coast Friday morning. – CNN’s Gena Somra, Pierre Meilhan and Bobby Afshar contributed to this report.
With Lent beginning, and a new CNN series on Christ coming up, you’re going to hear a lot about Jesus these days. You may hear revelations from new books that…
Russia’s leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in custody for handing out leaflets in the subway. A district court in Moscow ruled Thursday that Navalny,…
As the Islamic State group tries to expand and take root across the Middle East, it is struggling in Syria — part of its heartland — where it has stalled…
The posting of what appear to be unretouched photos of Beyonce poked the BeyHive (as her die-hard fans are known). In the photos Beyonce’s skin is blemished and hardly the…
Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group. Paul Polman is the CEO of Unilever. The views expressed are their own. Though the public rarely notices, businesses succeed because of…
PARIS — As the trial of Dominique Strauss-Kahn comes to a close on Friday, some here are breathing a sigh of relief after cringing, gasping and giggling uncomfortably for weeks…
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has crude, stomach-turning tactics when it comes to dealing with its enemy, but experts say that its moneymaking methods are highly sophisticated, especially…
Looking across this sea of anxious faces, it’s easy to forget this is a holiday. Knotted brows frame weary eyes in a crowd as deep as a football field, all…
The process of radicalization is gradual and persuasive, she said. And deadly. Her son, who joined ISIS’s ranks in Syria, was killed in fighting there more than a year ago….
These are good times for anti-smoking campaigners. But you wouldn’t know it from listening to their rhetoric. At the urging of anti-tobacco activists, the Department of Transportation is proposing to…
These are good times for anti-smoking campaigners. But you wouldn’t know it from listening to their rhetoric. At the urging of anti-tobacco activists, the Department of Transportation is proposing to…
Brendan O’Neill is editor of the London-based online magazine spiked and is a columnist for The Big Issue in the UK and Reason.com in the United States. Video footage of…
The Obama administration this week hosted a three-day conference on “Countering Violent Extremism,” which is a government euphemism for how best to deal with Islamist terrorism. Already a predictable tsunami…
And it’s apparently not going awayat least for any length of timeanytime soon. From a frozen Niagara Falls to endangered Florida oranges, there’s no shortage of evidence about how cold…
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday called on nations around the world to expand human rights, religious tolerance and peaceful dialogue as they struggle to combat a spate of terrorism…
Glada Lahn is Senior Research Fellow in the Energy, Environment & Resources Department at Chatham House in London. She focuses on energy and water governance and investment issues and economic…
Well, this ought to quench that need for freeze: Ice has suddenly blossomed across the Great Lakes, with the ice pack nearly doubling in just a little more than a…
COPENHAGEN — Arrested for stabbing a 19-year-old passenger on a commuter train in November 2013, Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein blamed his brutal, random and nearly fatal attack on the effects…
The most magical place on Earth isn’t just for kids. – H/T Good News Network
The wild and colorful costumes and masquerades that precede the Christian season of Lent have created popular festival traditions in Spain and Portugal. One of Portugal’s most famous Carnival events…
The European Union stands ready to beef up its border surveillance mission in the Mediterranean if Italy requests and is supplying 13.7 million euros ($15.6 million) to help Rome cope…
The President’s speech at the State Department Thursday morning will harken back to remarks he made at the United Nations General Assembly last fall, when he urged communities across the…
Rebels in Syria have captured 32 soldiers and pro-government gunmen near the northern city of Aleppo, where fighting is raging as the two sides try to grab new territory ahead…
For as long as she can remember, Lodoe Laura has been fascinated by Iceland. “I think of it as this really special place, isolated and reclusive,” the Toronto-based photographer says….
“The Russian planes were escorted by the RAF until they were out of the UK area of interest. At no time did the Russian military aircraft cross into UK sovereign…
MOSCOW — With the accord they brokered last week to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine seemingly in tatters, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France spoke by telephone…