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"There are some indications that there could be a cease-fire soon," Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said, but there are "no guarantees."

The district attorney in an upstate area of New York has admitted he previously had a career as a porn star, despite lying in response to the allegations while running for prosecutor. Mark Suben, who was been D.A. in Cortland County near Syracuse, NY since 2008, came clean during a press conference after an anonymous tipster posted a video of some of Suben’s moments on film.

Over the decades, New York City's famous beach went from popular to seedy to cool again. Then a hurricane came, and it took everything away.

Prisoners with conditions such as schizophrenia continue to be subject to possible lethal injection in some U.S. states.

Hindu Right-Wing Party Shiv Sena’s firebrand nationalist chief Bal Thackeray, who was critically since the lpast few days, passed away at his residence in Mumbai Saturday.

Israel made nearly 200 airstrikes in Gaza early Saturday, the Israeli military said, destroying the prime minister's headquarters.

Having an extramarital affair is a problem when you are the director of the U.S. CIA, and it’s really a problem when you may have compromised the codes that allow only a chosen few people access to nuclear weapons.

Jamaica is set to abolish a slavery-era law that allows for the public flogging of prisoners as a form of corporal punishment.

A petition requesting that Barack Obama's administration allow Texas to secede from the U.S. has garnered 112,720 signatures on the White House’s website.

Australia created the world’s largest network of marine reserves Friday in an effort to protect certain areas from overfishing and oil drilling.

Japan's December elections may end with a stalemate in parliament, while an unlikely alliance may come to prominence. In any case, the main issue is the same: economy, economy and more economy.

Petraeus reportedly believed all along the Benghazi attack was terrorism, but references to al Qaeda were allegedly removed from a draft document.

A Buddhist monk committed suicide at a monastery in France, but it's unclear if he was expressing solidarity with Tibetans.

Oliver Stone said Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the CIA who resigned last week after revealing he had an affair with his biographer, is “not a hero.”

The IDF claims more than 500 missiles have hit Israel and has called up 75,000 reservists to prepare for a possible ground attack on Gaza.

The 3rd crash of the modern F-22 Raptor draws attention again to the U.S. Air Force's newest jet.

The UK has suspended all financial aid to the Ugandan government over evidence of corruption and misuse.

The War Crimes Tribunal overturned the war crimes convictions of two former Croat generals charged with murdering hundreds of Serbs in the 1990s.

The tragic death of an Indian woman in a hospital has renewed the call for Ireland to reform its abortion laws.

One-fifth of all vendetta-type murders in France occur in Corsica.

The former CIA head is testifying in a closed-door Hill inquiry Fri. - his first appearance since the affair that undid him came to light.

A shirtless photo of an FBI agent sent to Jill Kelley was a "joke photo," according to his lawyer.

A sudden outbreak of the Ebola virus in Uganda this week has sounded alarm bells in Central Africa.

Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil arrived in Gaza Friday to show solidarity with the Palestinians after Israel pounded more than 130 targets overnight, escalating the two days of fighting between the Hamas militants and the Israeli military.

CIA Chief David Petraeus' downfall over an extramarital affair has made him the butt of jokes within the Taliban.

Japan will dissolve parliament's lower house Friday for a Dec. 16 election that is expected to return the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party to power.

Xi Jinping, the new leader of the Communist Party of China who is destined to lead the world’s most populous country for the next decade, is a quintessential “princeling” candidate by virtue of his bloodline.

The European Union may send troops to Mali to train solders ahead of an African-led military offensive against insurgents.

Obama, alongside Bloomberg and Cuomo, spent Thursday surveying areas of New York City that remain in ruins after more than two weeks.