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More women in China are getting nose jobs and eyelid tucks, hoping it will give them an advantage in finding employment.

A key advocate for a massive copper mine in southern Alaska has warned of dire consequences if the Environmental Protection Agency interferes with a likely permitting process.

Alice Gruppioni was on her honeymoon with husband Christian Gruppioni when Nathan Louis Campbell allegedly slammed into pedestrians on the Venice Beach boardwalk.

After the incident with illegal Cuban cargo bound for North Korea, Panama tells all countries using the canal that they need to come clean.

Sexual harassment usually involves a powerful male figure who pushes for sexual favors from younger women in positions of subordination.

The Panama Canal's planned rival is in jeopardy as the Nicaraguan government disagrees with the Chinese builder it formerly hailed.

President Zuma is expected to testify in an inquiry into a much-maligned 1999 defense deal.

One of the tenets of present-day China may go away soon, for economic reasons.

Despite strict rules governing the phone metadata program, the NSA is able to analyze huge quantities of phone records whenever it wants.

Pedophiles have long been coming to the poor North African country to engage in sex with children.

The Tawana Brawley case inflamed racial tensions and thrust the Rev. Al Sharpton into the national spotlight.

The United States has extended the closure of embassies across the Middle East and Africa until the end of this week as "abundance of caution" with mounting fears of terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda.

General was one of dozens of people convicted Monday in a trial targeting more than 270 alleged conspirators.

The only thing House Republicans appear to know at this time is that leadership won't take up the Senate bill on immigration.

Juan Tavera faces charged of assault or battery by a police officer for allegedly spraying pepper spray on a teenager's pizza.

In February 1991, Indian troops allegedly raped at least two dozen (or as many as one-hundred) girls and women in the neighboring towns of Kunan and Poshpora in Jammu & Kashmir.

Reformist President Hassan Rouhani was sworn in on Sunday, amid concerns that Iran may pursue an alternative path to develop nuclear weapons.

The Congolese militant group M23 is growing impatient to begin negotiations.

A credit crunch, fueled by a drop in coal prices, may plunge China's coal-producing regions into a financial crisis.

China's service sector shows resilience even as the economy struggles to maintain growth momentum, HSBC's latest reading of PMI shows.

A soldier was killed by a land mine and a suspected militant was killed by cops as the situation in Tunisia got tense this weekend.

The power Barack Obama used to help Apple has been used only four other times, thrice by Ronald Reagan.

The world’s trade referee said China “acted inconsistently” in slapping tariffs on U.S. chicken products.

With U.S., Germany, France and Britain on high alert, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss says threat is “reminiscent of what we saw pre-9/11.”

Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party also secured a strong majority in Zimbabwe’s Parliament.

One ally of Silvio Berlusconi even warned of civil war if the billionaire’s punishment isn’t lessened.

There is some confusion over the motivation behind the brutal attack.

Severe widespread lead poisoning in Bagega was discovered in 2010, but cleanup measures only began in February 2013.

More than 100,000 people have died since violence in Syria began.