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Watch live coverage of Spain's opening game of Euro 2012 against Italy, plus a full preview, team news and prediction.

Watch highlights of Germany's 1-0 victory over Portugal in Euro 2012.

Watch live coverage of Germany against Portugal in Euro 2012, plus a full preview, team news and predicition.

Watch live coverage of the Netherlands Vs. Denmark, plus read a full preview, team news and prediction for the Euro 2012 clash.

African governments -- and international animal-rights organizations -- contend the Chinese luxury consumer's appetite for ivory is driving a new wave of illegal killing of one of their continent's most iconic animals.

On Thursday, the government of Denmark approved a law to legalize same-sex marriage. But many are wondering why it took so long?

Charlize Theron is an actress, model, activist, and mother. Since her breakout role in the 1997 drama The Devil's Advocate Theron has taken Hollywood by storm. The face of Dior has appeared in a number of notable films, such as The Cider House Rules and The Italian Job.

After a long period of instability and conflict, we now have ahead of us an opportunity for genuine peace and security, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Thursday.

The question is whether, in light of growing human rights problems from China and Russia to the Middle East and North Africa, the United States is doing enough to factor human rights into its foreign policy.

In an attempt to add more insight into whether mermaids exist, Animal Planet recently airted its latest documentary special, Mermaids: The Body Found. The network aired the show on Sunday, May 28, as part of its Monster Week series and is strictly a fictional account based on a small number of facts.

Central banks in emerging markets continued to gobble up gold last month, and analysts anticipate this trend has legs. Why are these central banks doing it? And why should you care?

Private-sector initiatives in space made history Friday when SpaceX?s Dragon space capsule was grappled by and attached to the International Space Station.

The accident happened in an area formerly operated by diamond giants De Beers.

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), the No. 2 computer maker, said it opened a new center in Da Nang, Vietnam, its third center in the Southeast Asian country.

Here's a look at how the U.S. Men's National Team should shape up when the final cuts come Friday, May 25.

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki was in Khartoum on Friday to try and push Sudan and South Sudan back to the negotiation table.

Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI), the world's fourth largest gold miner, said Thursday its first-quarter profit rose 70 percent, beating Wall Street's expectations. But the Johannesburg, South Africa-based miner also said its extraction capacity in 2012 will be at the lower end of its previously stated range.

More than four million people in South Sudan -- about half of the country's population -- face hunger and food shortages as clashes with Sudan along the border continue, according to the United Nations.

India's emergence as an economic superpower has been accompanied by a disturbing and unexpected phenomenon: an apparent increase in sexual assaults on women.The actual number of rapes in Delhi -- and India as a whole -- is likely to be dramatically higher than indicated by published statistics.

The 51 beauties of the Miss USA pageant balanced themselves in high heels through a rocky cruise of the Hudson river, for a charity sightseeing trip. The event was part of a full-day media blitz in advance of the June 3 competition.

Senator Richard Lugar, who recently lost a primary election for the first time in 36 years, is a legend for his efficacy as a bipartisan politician. Now 80 years old, he will retire from the Senate and pursue other means of public service.