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The 33 miners trapped by a cave-in at a mine in northern Chile have been told they may be stuck underground for four more months.

A German pop star was found guilty Thursday of causing grievous bodily harm and attempted bodily harm for failing to tell sexual partners that she was infected with HIV.

The bottleneck on the Beijing-Tibet expressway, which began on August 14 due to a spike in traffic by cargo-bearing heavy trucks and was compounded by road maintenance works... seems to have vanished.

Three teens who were on a 69-name hit list posted on Facebook have been killed in the past 10 days in a southwestern Colombian town, officials say.

Forty-three people died in a plane crash Tuesday night in northeast China, state-run media reported.

CNN's iReporter caught a water spout fall out of the sky and into the ocean.

CNN is reporting that the recent flooding in Pakistan has left 1/5th of the country under water. With about one-fifth of the country underwater, almost 900,000 homes have been damaged, the agency said. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday that while he has visited sites of natural disasters around the world, he has never seen […]

A group of scholars and activists including Cornel West and Noam Chomsky are urging France to pay the billions of dollars of debt that Haiti paid them for Haitian independence. The UK Guardian reports : The open letter to the French president says the debt, now worth more than €17bn (£14bn), would cover the rebuilding […]

Via CNN.com: As over 850 out-of-control forest fires rage on just outside of Moscow, Moscovites can only pray that the first day back to work for a lucky few in the morning will mean Air Conditioning in a large office. Others will have to deal with the consequences of smoke that has been reported to […]

Hip-Hop star Wyclef Jean will announce his bid for the President of Haiti, a source has confirmed with AllHipHop.com exclusively.