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Lance Armstrong’s years of doping denial are over after the cyclist confessed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. With pending federal government and world doping sanctions Armstrong’s doping ordeal won’t end with a televised interview

An estimated 4,500 lions remain in Zambia, while the leopard population is unknown.

The northwestern African country of Mauritania has banned the use of plastic bags, citing the harmful effects of pollution.

A city in the Indonesian province of Aceh is mulling a ban on women straddling on motorbikes or bicycles.

U.S. President Barack Obama rarely talks about gun control. The latest massacre may change that.

"Ban Justin Bieber" trends after a Filipino law maker wants Biebs barred from the country.

A helium balloon ban is one way to deflate a celebration, but it may be a necessary sacrifice in the near future if humans want to avert a serious shortage of the non-renewable gas.

Berkeley's student government wants campus to part with Salvation Army bell ringers and their red kettles, over anti-gay allegations.

German legislators may push forward a measure to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) after all 16 state governors gave their support for the legal action Thursday.

Currently in Europe, seven nations have legalized and regulated prostitution

Officials in Botswana have announced a 2014 ban on big-game hunting in an effort to preserve wildlife species.

Iran has written to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the U.N. Security Council, accusing the U.S. Navy of violating its territory and engaging in “illegal acts” in the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf.

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has approved the public nudity ban on Tuesday. The vote was narrowly approved, with six votes for the ban and five votes against banning public nudity.

San Francisco may have to put its clothes back on after a public nudity ban gets voted on Tuesday.

San Francisco has been sued by nudists over a proposed ban on nudity. The nudists claim that the proposed ban is an attack on their civil rights.

Citing complaints from some commuters, Jamaica has banned preaching on public transport.

San Diego Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal has been suspended 50 games because of a positive test for testosterone.

Violence continued on the fourth day of the so-called cease-fire between the Syrian military and opposition forces.

The UN was introduced to Psy's "Gangnam Style" dance when the rapper and Sec-Gen Ban did the dance together.

French President Francois Hollande is trying to ban homework forever.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced that a new bill is in the works to ban public smoking.