As the last US soldiers leave Iraq, the US State Department assumes the reins of a complex and risky operation.
Rescuers searched for more than 800 people missing in the southern Philippines on Sunday after flash floods and landslides killed over 650 people.
More than 400 people were killed and an unknown number were missing after a typhoon struck the southern Philippines.
There were no fancy jerseys, no short-skirted cheerleaders for these athletes. But the competition was fierce, and so was the cultural pride - and that made Brazil's XI Indigenous Games one of the most watchable events of 2011.
The Egyptian new government faces a tough test as fresh clashes between protesters and security forces in Cairo continued on Saturday.
At least two people were killed and 222 others injured in the latest clashes between protestors and security forces Friday in Cairo, said the Egyptian health ministry.
School buses will not have to wait for a draft law to be ratified that proposes giving them the right of way in traffic before they are given the privilege.
The Guinness World Records adjudicator Rob Molloy (R) speaks with Jyoti Amge, the world's shortest living woman, on her 18th birthday in the central Indian city of Nagpur Dec 16, 2011.
Who's hot, who's not in China Sports (Dec 10-16)
Hua'ao, a 4-year-old giant panda sticks out his tongue to catch snowflakes at a zoo in Yantai, East China's Shandong province, Dec 15, 2011.
Students wearing 100 masks depicting Peking Opera join forces to publicize the traditional Chinese culture in Liaocheng University, East China’s Shandong province, Dec 15, 2011.
The wife of the founder of Crazy English, is determined to divorce her husband and is fighting to get the properties she says she deserves from the marriage.
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